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Given under my hand, at the city of W;aftiington,
the 29th day .of January, in thffe year of our
( l * s *) Lord 1802, and of the Independence of the Un
ited States of America the 26th.
; TH. JEFFERSON.
By the President,
James Madisow, secretary of Bate.
Ve have the pleasure to announce to the public, that
Savannah Merchants have entered into an agreement
( ave all the Cotton repacked that comes to the Savan
n |. Market, by which means all Cotton packed fraudu
, !v will be difeovered, and every improper tranfa&ion
.7... cted, and will be the means of eftabliffiing the reputa
'D of the Georgia Cotton, and like wife make the Country
ners cautious how they pack Cotton improperly.
Carried in Liberty county, Mr. John Osgood jun. to
-j Winn, daughter of Peter Winn, Esq. Mr. Na
thvniel Law, to Mrs. Walker, widow of Mr. Joel Wal
ks. . ■ ‘ ,
jef* On account of the session of the Inferior Court,
,h Mayor’s Court is adjourned until Tuesday the 2d day
f darch next, of which all suitors, jurors, and witnesses,
take notice.
, By order of the Court ,
W. Blogg, clerk.
A ECDOTES or the Cenci FAMILY at ROME.
From Watktn's Travels.
IN one of the apartments of the Castle of St. Angelo
we saw the armor of the celebrated gen. Bourbon, who
was killed in scaling the walls of Rome, A. D. 1527, and
weapons with which several remarkable assassinations had
been perpetrated. I took up a stilletto, and, inquiring
into the history of it, was told it was the same that the
young and beautiful Beatrice Cenci had given to hel - fa
ther’s murderers. As you probably have never heard this
tale of horror I will relate the particulars, which I had
lately the curiosity to colieil. It happened in the year
1598. The father, Francis Cenci, was descended of an
illustrious family, and one of the most opulent noblemen
of Rome, but of a disposition so depraved that human na
ture shudders at the recital of his iniquity, and shrinks
from the refleition. He was twice married; by his first
wife he had five sons and two daughters. The sons he
treated with extreme cruelty; and the elder daughter he
would have debauched, had she not petitioned the pope,
who compelled him to bestow hei in marriage. Thus dis
appointed of his diabolical design upon her, he determined
to attempt the other, before she had arrived at those years
in which reason might operate as an impediment to the
dped. He did so, and by persuading her that the action
was not criminal unhappily succeeded. So abandoned was
this monster of impiety that he frequently committed the
incest in his wife’s presence. By her the daughter was
made sensible of her criminality, and ever after refused to
comply with his request. Her father then proceeded to
exait by beating what he had before obtained by seduction.
The unhappy Beatrice, to withdraw herself from his bru
tality, had recourse to the same expedient which had pre
served her sister’s innocence, and presented a remonstrance
to the pope, Clement the VUlth, but had not the same
success, it being either negleiled or forgotten. In this
helpless situation, stung with remorse for the abominable
crime she had committed, and continually urged to a re
petition of it, she could devise no other means of avoiding
the incestuous commerce than by-taking the life of her se
ducer. For this purpose she entered into a conspiracy
with her step-mother, her elder brother James, and a cer
tain monsignor Guerra, a dignitary of the church, and
hired two assassins, named Olympio and Martin, who
were to receive each a thousand crowns for the murder. It
was accordingly committed on’ the 9th of September
1598 at a faintly seat near Rome. The bravoes were in
troduced into the old man’s chamber (for he was then 70
years of age) at night, where they dispatched him with
the dagger I have already mentioned. The next morning
it was reported he had died suddenly, and as there was no
suspicion to the contrary he was buried without examina
tion. Some time after the interment the widow of the de
ceased lent a.bundle of foul linen to a washerwoman in the
neighborhood, not having examined the contents, from
the supposition that her step-daughter had done it; among
these were the bloody sheets in which the late murder haid
been committed. They were immediately sent to Rome,
and in consequence all the Cenci family confined. Mon
signor Guerra fled on the first report of this proceeding;
but Olympio having given some cause of suspicion was ap
prehended, and immediately made a deposition of the
whole. The judges, however, not satisfied with this, de
termined to extort confession by torture from the step
mother, the elder son, and Beatrice. With the two former
they easily succeeded, but the most racking torments could
not overcome the silence of the latter, until confronted
by the testimony of Olympio, and the declaration of her
relatives, she was at length persuaded to acknowledge
herself an accomplice in the crime. On this the pope con
demned them to be dragged to death at the tails of three
wild horses, but deferred the execution of this 115 days,
m which time the many powerful applications made in
their behalf would probably have procured them a pardon,
had not the murder of the noble Roman lady Santa Croce
by her own son determined him to make an example of the
t-enci. He was, however, persuaded to alter their sen
tence. On Saturday the 1 ith of September 1599 a scaf
fold was ereiled on the Ponte Sant. Angelo, the common
place of execution, to which the women were first con
duced in funeral procession, and beheaded amidst the
tears and groans of thousands. After them the elder bro
ther was led out and deprived of life by the blow of a club;
ut the misfortunes of the Cenci did not end here; for the
younger sons, though innocent, were deprived of their vi
rility,* and the extensive property of their house confis-
Paul the Vth, (a Borghese) to enrich his family,
which, as I have beforefold you, is the most wealthy in
ome. Was this last deed less iniquitous than the parricide?
11 their possession is the portrait of the ill-fated Beatrice,
one during her confinement by Guido, and I think I ne-
a countenance less guilty or more beautiful.
This was the only motive that induced bis belt
nets t$ mtrfaH-tbe C
Ame DOTES of tORD MAtfSFIELD. ,
Sergeant Davy, being concerned in a cause which he
wanted to postpone for a few days, asked lord Mansfield
whei, he would bring it on. On Friday next,” said his
io.dsh.p. * Will you consider, my lord? Friday next
will be hood Friday .” I don’t care tor that; the bet
ter day the better deed.” Well, my lord,” savs Davy,
you may do as you please, but if you do sit on that
day, I believe you’ll .be the first judge who did business
on a Good Friday since Pontius Pilate’s time.”
A Catholic priest was maliciously prosecuted in the
Court of King’s Bench for having said mass. Lord Mans
field, with his usual acumen, soon saw the drift of the
prosecution, and asked the principal witness, Then you
are sure the man is a Popish priest, and that he said mass?”
Yes, my lord. ’ “ Oh! then you know what mass is?”
Here the witness was confused, and after some pause an
swered in the negative. His lordship then addressed him
self to the jury as follows:
“ Gentlemen of the jury ,
“ To nd thls man guilty you must have full proof
that he said mass, and it must likewise be fully proved to
you tljat it was the mass which this man said when the
witness saw him performing adh which he took to be the
mass; you must therefore judge for yourselves, whether
your consciences are entirely satisfied on this point.”
The jury instantly acquitted the prisoner.
A gentleman going out as a judge to one of our settle
ments in America, who had not been much used to the
pra&ice of the law, and was therefore afraid of not being
able to satisfy his own mind in this new situation, applied
to lord Mansfield for advice. His lordship, who knew
him to be a good judge of constitutional law, and an ho
nest man, gave him the following:
Decide as well as you can, but don’t be apt to give
reasons for your decision. lam sure you will decide well
and justly, but it is very possible you may give bad rea
sons.”
His lordship gave the same advice to a friend of his, a
justice of peace, with this addition, Be always sure of
your good intentions, for in all cases brought before us we
generally judge of the intentions of a magistrate.”
Pope, in the decline of life, used to spend several of
his winter evenings with lord Mansfield at his house in
town, and as his lordship used frequently to be out on
business, the poet, who had the entree of his study, not
infrequently used to fill up his time in writing Latin epi
grams, which, when he shewed to lord Mansfield, he ge
nerally discouraged, and sometimes used to throw them
into the fire, exclaiming, u 1 hat the first English poet in
the world ought not to write any thing but in his own lan
guage.”
A friend of lord Mansfield's, who was a literary man,
(the late Owen RufFliead) often pressed him for materials
to write his life, wishing, as he said, to perpetuate the
memory of so great a man. Lord Mansfield parried this
attack for tome years; at last he gave him his reasons a
gainst it in the following manner, which do equal credit
to his judgment and bis modesty:
You mistake, my good friend: the objeft you look
for woum form no important or entertaining part of bio
graphy. My success in life Iras not been remarkable, anu
my parts such as generally attach to men who have had
the same opportunities and the same assiduitie*. My fa
ther was a man of rank and taihion; he gave me a good
education, and in early life 1 was introduced into the best
company, which my circumstances enabled me to keep
without falling into any improper embarrassments; there
fore to these, adventitious circumstances, it is
that I owe my success. But if you wish to write the life
of a truly great man take my lord Hardwicke; he indeed
was so, who from very humble means, without family,
fortune, or connexions, rose to lie lord chancellor of
England, merely through his virtues, his talents, and as
siduitiei.”
It was a frequent observation of lord Mansfield’s, “ That
nothing was so silly as cunning.”
Another of hi* was, Begin at the end,” intimating
that the consequences ihould be looked to, and well con
sidered, before we resolve on anv rhino-.
Another, a It often happens ill politics that instead of
consulting what iS to be done , parties are struggling who
should do it.” ,
It was a pleasant observation made by lord Mansfield on
the investments of money, “ That in mortgages men had
their principal without interest,—in the funds, interest
without principal.”
Dr. Johnson’s opinion of lord Mansfield to a person who
said in his company, “ that lie had heard lord Mansfield
was not a great English lawyer:
“ Why, sir, supposing lord Mansfield not to have the
splendid talents he possesses, he must be a great English
lawyer from having been so long at the bar, and having
passed through so many of the great offices of the law.
You may as well maintain that a carrier who has driven a
pack-horse between Edinburgh and Berwick for 20 years
does not know the road, as that lord Mansfield does not
know the law of England.*’
WANTED,
A HEALTHY YOUNG NEGRO WENCH,
AS A WET NURSE.
One without a child will be preferred.
Apply to the Printers.
MARSHALAS SAUL
On Tuesday the 9 tb of March , 1802, will be fold at
Emy Jlore, Clay's wharf Yaniaeraw,
IGHI Packages of Merchandise, inventory of which
will be (hewn at the time and place of sale; taken
in execution to fatisfy judgments on Customhouse bonds
of Nicholas Tuite, to which William Hunter was security,
at the special instance of William Thompson; the goods
pointed out by the said William Hunter.
Alfoy on IVednefday the 10 thy
Packages of Goods, taken in execution to fatisfy a judg
ment of Simpson and Davidson versus Andrew Canavan,
copartner of Samuel Saubcre and Cos.
a <3‘ A. Gordojt, marfbal.
-7- _■ v ~ • .. -_ t i_ ~i • • i
ODE on A COLLEGE FEAST DAY.
I.
HARK! heaid you not yon footsteps dread,
I hat shook the Hall with tliuud’ring tread?
With eager haste
1 he fellows pass’d,
Each intent on direful work,
High lift* his mighty blade, and points his deadly fork.
11.
But, hark! the portal’s sound, and pacing forth,
With steps, alas! too slow,
Ihe College gips, of high illustrious worth,
With all the dishes, in long order go;
In the midst a form divine,
Appears the fam’d surloin;
And soon, With plums and glory crown’d,
A mighty pudding sheds its sweets around.
Heard ye the din of dinner bray?
, Knife to fork, and fork to knife;
Unnumber’d heroes in the glorious strife,
Through fish, flesh, pies, and puddings, cut their destin'd
way.
111.
See, beneath the mighty blade,
Gor’d with many a ghastly wound,
Low the lam’d surloin is laid,
And sinks in many a gulph profound:
Arise, arise, ye sons of glory,
Pies and puddings stand before ye;
See the ghosts of hungry bellies
Point at yonder stand of jellies;
While such dainties are beside ye,
Snatch the goods the Gods provide ye;
Mighty rulers of this state,
Snatch, before it is too late;
For, swift as thought, the puddings, jellies, pies,
Contract their giant bulks, and shrink to pigmy size*
IV*
From the table now retreating,
All around the fire tliev meet,
And, with wine, the son* of eating
Crown at length their mighty treat;
1 riumphant Plenty’s rosy grace*
Sparkle in their jolly faces,
And mirth and cheerfulness are seen
In each countenance serene.
Fill high the sparkling glass,
And drink th’ accustom’d toait;
Drink deep, ye mighty host,
And let the bottle pass.
Begin, begin the jovial strain,
Fill, fill the mystic bowl,
And drink, and drink, and drink again,
For drinking fires the soul.
But soon, too soon, with one accord, they reel,
Each on his seat begins to nod,
All comju'ring Bacchus’ pew’r they feel.
And pour libations to the jolly God.
At length, with dinner and with wine oppress’d,
Down in the chairs they sink, and give themselves to rest.
THE fubferiber is willing to appropriate part of hi*
time as a Negotiator of any honest Business, as far
as relates to buying or felling any species of property, (re
tailing goods excepted) or the adjustment and fettltment
of any accounts that come within the compass of his pow
er, in or about Savannah, for any person that may have
confidence in him, and want afiiftance, for a moderate
compensation. At present he is to be found on his little
farm opposite the plantation belonging to the Estate of
Hampton Lillibridge, efq. deceased, on the easterly road,
one mile from Savannah.
PHILIP MILLEDGE.
28 tb July, 1801.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT, nine months from the date hereof, I {hall
make application to the Honorable the Inferior
Court of the County of Chatham, for leave to fell the fol
lowing Trails and Lots of Land, to wit:
All that trail of land, containing 500 acres, in the
late pariffi of St. Paul, bounded, at the time of the sur
vey, fouthweftwardly by 1 ind of Daniel Nicar, Nathaniel
Woods, and land laid out, northwardly by lands of John
Parker, Daniel Richardson, James !Vl‘Farland, James
Grierfon, and vacant land.
All that trad of land, containing too acres, in the pa
rish of St. Matthew, bounded, at the time of survey,
fouthweftwardly by land of Francis Jones, and on all other
sides by vacant land.
All that trad, containing 500 acres, in the pariffi of
St. Paul, bounded eaftwardly by land of Thomas John
son, northwardly by land of Edmund Cartledge and Littlo
Kioka creek, and on all other sides by land vacant.
Those two lots of land in the town of Sunbury knowa
by the numbers 395 and 396.
All that lot of land, situate in the village of St. Gall,
containing 90 feet in width and 195 feet in length, being
two lots, known in the general plan of the said village by
the numbers 49 and 50, bounded to the east on the com
mons of Savannah, now Weft Broad street, to the south
on a street, and to the northward and weft ward on a lot
belonging to said village; together with the buildings and
appurtenances unto the fame belonging.
Which said several trails and lots of land are the real
estate of John Shick, late of Savannah aforefaid, deceas
ed, and will be fold for the benefit of the heirs of the said
deceased, pursuant to the ail of Assembly in such case
made and provided,
Joseph Welscher, attorney for the administrators.
September SO, 1801*