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PROLOGUE on opening the Theatre at Sydney , Bo
tany Bay, spoken by the celebrated Mr. Barring
ton.
FROM distant climes o’er wide spread seas we come,
Though not with much eclat or beat of drum,
True patriots all, for be it understood,
We left our country for our country’s good;
No private views disgrac’d our generous zeal,
What urg’d our travels was our country’s weal;
And none will doubt but that our emigration
Has pfuv’d most useful to the British Nation.
But you inquire, what could our breasts inflame,
With this new passion for theatric fame;
What, in the practice of our former days,
Could shape our talents to exhibit plays;
Your patience, Sirs, some observations made,
You’ll grant us equal to the scenic trade.
He who to midnight ladders is no stranger,
You’ll own, will make an admirable Ranger.
To see Mackheath we have not far to roam;
And sure in Filch I shall be quite at home;
Unrival’d there, none will dispute my claim ,
To high pre-eminence and exalted fame.
As oft on Gadshill we have ta’en our stand,
When ’twas so dark you could not see your hand,
Some true bred’ FalstafF we may hope to start,
Who, when well bolster’d, well may play his part.
The scene to vary, we shall try in time
I'o treat you with a little Pantomime.
Here light and easy Columbines are found,
And well tried Harlequins with us abound;
From durance vile our precious selves to keep, v
We often have recourse to the flying leap;
To a black face have sometimes ow’d escape,
And Hounslow Heath has prov’d the worth of crape.
But how, you ask, can we e’er hope to soar
Above these scenes, and rise to tragic lore?
Too oft, alas, we forc’d th’ unwilling tear,
And petrified the heart with real fear.
Macbeth a harvest of applause will reap,
For some of us, I fear, have murder and sleep;
His Lady, too, with grace will sleep and talk,
Our females have been us’d at mgtit to walk.
Sometimes, indeed, so various is our heart,
An Ailor may improve and mend his part;
Give me a horse,” bawls Richard, like a drone,
We’ll find a man would help himself to one.
Grant us your favor, put us to the test,
T- gain j om oiuHca Ju wiu Tciy bfSt;
And without dread of future Turnkey Lockits,
Thus, in an honest way, still pick your pocket*.
TO THE PUBLIC.
A NEW MAP of the S TAT Eo/ GEORGIA.
HAVING been frequently solicited by my friends in
this and other states to publish A MAP of GEOR
GIA, I have devoted much time and labor for thel fix
years part to that object, and having acquired such materi
als as I approve of, I (hall be prepared in a iliort time to
offer to them, and the public, a Map, which, from its
accuracy, I have the best hope,will meet with general ap
probation, and that I (hall secure to myfelf (through their
bounty) a handfotne emolument as a reward for my indus
try and perseverance.
Thefizeof the above mentioned Map is 4 feet 6 inches
by 3 feet 6 inches, fufficiently large to exhibit the sound
ings of the ftveral Bays and Inlets, and render it of use to
Mariners. It will be placed in the hands of an Engraver
within the term of four months from this date, where Plates
w’ll be prepared with all poftible expedition.
__ A number of copies will then be firuck off under my
o;.:n superintendency in the town of Louisville, and circu
i|ted through the various states where subscriptions may
been obtained. Price for plain Maps 5 dollars, and
for those canvaflcd and elegantly ornamented 8 dollars.
Subscriptions will be received in Louisville at the Sur
veyor General’s Office; at Wa/hington, Wilkes county,
by Gen. Meriwether; at Sparta by Martin Martin, Eiq.
in Augusta at the Pcftoffice, and in Savannah by Major
‘Thomas Johnson.
DANIEL STURGLS, Surveyor General.
Surveyor General’s Office, November 25, 1801.
FOR SALE,
The Farm Lot, No. i, Percival
Ward, Holland Tithing, containing 45 acres old survey;
and
Two Farm Lots, Nos. 9 and 10,
in the Village of Hampftead, containing together ioo
acres old survey.
The vicinity of the above mentioned lands to this city
mult render them an objeil to persons who wifli for situa
tion. for fmail farm* near town. For terms apply to
JAMES ROBERTSON.
Savannah , 29 th May , 1801.
TO BE LEASED.
A Five Acre Lot of Land, near
Savannah, an exceeding good (ituation for a garden or a
brick yard. Inquire of the printers.
GEORGIA. ■ . . „
By his Excellency JOSIAH TATTNALL jrtmor, go
vernor and Commander in -Chief of the Army and- avy
of this State, and of the Militia thereoi, * ■ ■
.4 A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS Benjamin Taliaferro, Esq. one of the
Representatives of this State in the Congress ot
the United States, hath resigned his (eat as a member there
of: And Whereas, in and by an act to regulate the ge
neral elections in this ftate*. and to appoint the time ot tne
meeting of the General ASembly, palled the 1 ith da\ 0
February, 1799, it is, among other things, declared, “ That
all writs of elections to fill vacancies that may happen tor
Members of the General Aflcmbly of this hate, or Home
of Representatives of the United States, (ball be directed
to the Justices of the Inferior Courts of the refpedtive ccu-i
----ties, who are hereby required to give public notice thereof,
and cause the fame to be held in manner and form as herein
before pointed out agreeably to such writ:” I have there
fore thought fit to ilfue this my proclamation, notify
ing, dire fling, and ordering, the refpeilive Justices of the
Inferior Courts of this state to con sider this my proclarriati
on as a general writ of election, for the purpoie of filling
the vacancy of a Member in the House of Repre Tentative*
of the United States, in the room of <the afoi’ementioned
Benjamin Taliaferro, who was elected to that feat for two
years from the fourth day of March last past; and I do here
by require and charge the said Justices to promulgate this
proclamation, and give due notice, that the said election
will be held, in the refpeilive counties of the state, agree
ably to the terms and directions of the said aft, on Mon
day the sth day of April next; and the said Justices are
hereby required to make due return of such election to the
Executive Department, as in and by the laid act is pointed
out.
Given under my hand, and the great seal of the
state, at the statehouse in Louisville, this 23d
day of February, in the year of our Lord 1802,
and of the Independence of the United States
of America the 26th.
JOSIAH TATTNALL jun.
By the Governor,
Horatio Mabbury, fecretarv of the state.
GOD SAVE THE STATE.
LOUISVILLE HEADQUARTERS, DECEMBER
10, 1801.
GENERAL ORDERS.
THE adjutant general will again proceed to the annual
convention of the field officers of the refpeCtive re
giments and battalions, together with the brigade infpeilors
of the brigades they refpeclively belong to, at such times,
and at such places, as may be moft convenient for all the •
field officers of such brigades, in order to inftruil them in
the difeipline prescribed by Congress, and in order that the
evolutions prescribed by law may be praff iftd. The briga
dier generals will order a company of light infantry or
fufiliers to attend eac'a refpeClive brigade convention of of
ficers, provided and equipped as the law direils such corps
to be.
In instances, however, where inanifeft inconveniences
arise in convening the field officers in each brigade, and
when, from various causes, the objecl of such convention
cannot be fully answered, the brigadier general of each
brigade will, in lieu thereof, adopt such mode as he may
deem best calculated for more cfteCtually inftruCling the
field officers in the difeipline prescribed. And the com
mander in chief is imprelTed with the opinion that the objeil
can be more generally effected in brigades, where it may
be found inconvenient 10 convene the field officers, by or
dering the field officers, or officer in each regimental or
battalion diftridl, to attend the adjutant general when the
regimental or battalion officers are convened, for the pur
pole of being inftrufled in the difeipline and evolutions.
He will alio concert with the ft veral brigade infpeilors
on the moft proper time for convening the reipedlive regi
mental or battalion officers, with the adjutants and firft
lerjeants thereof, for the purpose of inftrudling them in the
said difeipline. And it is of the greatefl consequence
that the privates should be particularly taught the duty re
quired of them in the field, the commanding officers of the
refpeilive regiments ar.d battalions are called on to ad in
concert with the adjutant general and brigade infpeclors,
by ordering regimental and battalion nuifters at such times
as they may be notified by the adjutant general that he will
attend them for the purpose.
The adjutant general is required, immediately after he
(hall have completed his annual tour for the purpose of in
fpecVion, to provide the commander in chief with a return
of the names of the field and company officers throughout
the state, designating ta what regiment and battalion they
are attached, and the same of the county.
By order of"the commander in chiefs
Jonas Fau che, adi. gen.
IN obedience to the foregoing order the following days
are fixed on for the review of the ift brigade of the Ift di
vision, viz. In Effingham, on tlie 15th day of March;
in Chatham, on the 17th; in Bryan, 011 the 19th; in Li
berty, on the 2 2d; in M‘lntolh,’ the 24th; in Glynn, on
the 26th; and in Camden, the 2d of April, 1802.
John Lyon, brigade infpeilor, ift brig, iftdivif.
ASSIZE for MARCH, 1802.
FLOUR 7 dollar* 50 cents per barrel; weight of
Bread must be, *
I2| cents loaf. 6* cents loaf,
lbs. oz. lb. oz.
2 9 1 44
JOHN GIBBONS, City Treasurer.
rI=~NIO TICE.
ALL persons having demands against the Estate of Ann
Parker, late of this city, deceased, are dtfired to
render the fame properly attested; and all those indebted
thereto will make immediate payment to William Stephens,
at Dr. Channing’s plantation, or to the fubferiber in Sa
vannah.
W illiam M‘Farlad, surviving and qualified
executor.
March 2, 1802.
FOR. -SALE,
THAT valuable PLANTATION on the iibud M
Saint Salvadore, known by the name of
LIGNUMVITA-: HILL, ■
Containing 1000 acres, of which 20c acres are wuiyß
and under cultivation of Cotton and Corn, for which tJ
land is well adapted, as well as for a Stock PianudoJ
together with the Improvements tliereon, viz. an o\v’l
feer’i. house, negro lu-ufes, gin house and gin, and ac<J
ton hQufe. And a moft valuable Gang of
FIELD NEGROES, I
Consisting of 37 in number. Poffeffiou to be given qll
May next. If the land and Negroes are fold together
one third of the purchale money to be paid down, a ere! if
dit of one and.two years will be given for the other tv 0 |
thirds, bearing filtered, (with good security) payable bp I
two inftalments, in approved bills of exchange on London I
at 60 days fight; if the Negroes are fold separate fro® I
the hands, calh, or good bills of exchange as above foeci. I
fied, will be expected. Apply, at Nafiau, to
ALEXANDER BEGBIE,
HUGH DEAN.
Najfau, December, 1801.
Lands for Sale.
A TRACT, containing 300 acres, in Glynn county, I
and another of 600 acres, both furveved in 1769!
the former on a branch of the Buffalo fwainp, and the
latter about 20 miles from Brunswick, equal in quality to
any in the county.
A traft of upwards 3000 acres on Canouchie, excellent
pine land, on which was a mill feat before the revolution;
it will be divided so as to suit purchasers.
DAV ID LEION, Broker.
TUBES O’T D,
Two hundred Acres of Land, in
the county of Effingham, 15 miles from this city; it k
good cotton land, 45 acres of it cleared, ready to plant
this year, for the second time, under new fence and good
plantation buildings. Indisputable titles will be given.
For terms apply to J. CUY LER.
1 stb February, 1802.
_ 1 1 1 * - m■” I ■■■ I
FOR SALE,
A TRACT OF LAND, containing 300 acres, a great
part of which is inland swamp, the remainder good
corn land, situated on the Three Runs in Effingham county.
A TRACT’, containing 200 acres, of the fame quality,
and joining the above.
A TRACT of 450 acres of exceeding good provision
land, on Great Ogechee river, about 45 miles by land
from Savannah.
A TRACT’of 150 acres river swamp joining the above.
Inquire of the Printers.
TO BE SOLD, on the 24th day of March next, at
Newport Bridge,
All the Personal Estate of Benja
miu Smallwood, deceased. Sale to commence at 11
o’clock. Conditions calh.
All persons who have any claims against the above Estate
are requested to fend them in properly attested, and those
indebted are requested to make payment to the fubferiber.
Francis Smallwood, adm'r.
February 11.
TAX COLLECTOR'S SALE.
At Montgomery courtboufe, on Saturday the 3 d day
of April next , will be fold ,
The following Tra£t of Land,
For the tax of The years 17991 1800, 1801, and all ar
rearages, viz.
287 L acres on the Alatamaha, Tattnall county, adjoin
ing Btigg, granted to John Beconi, returned by William
Blanchane, tax due 9 dollars and costs.
Abnf.r Davis, t. c.
2 d February, 1802.
SHERIFF’S SALES.
On Tuesday the 6tb day of April next, will be fold by
public outcry , at the courtboufe in this city, between
the hours of X and 111 o'clock,
ALL THAT PARCEL OF LAND, known by the
name of Fair Lawn, adjoining the town of Savan
nah, which will be laid off in lots of 1 o acres each.
ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND, containing 788
acres, adjoining and composing the Fair Lawn tract, that
was advertised to be fold this day, 2d March, will be fold,
at the fame time and place, in 50 acre trails, regularly
furveved and laid off in trails of that ftze.
Alio, TEN NEGROES.
Seized as the property of Richard Wylly, efq. deceas
ed.
N. B. The land will be fold fubjeil to a claim of dow
er. . ,
A NEGRO BOY, seized as the property of Patrick
Rae, the former purchaser not complying with the condi
tions of sale.
A NEGRO WOMAN, seized as the property of ti
mothy Barnard, the sale having been postponed from lai
sale day.
Conditions calh.
T. Norton, s. c. c.
Savannah , 2 d March, 1802. -
The plats of the land may be seen at the Ihenn s 0 -
lice.
• YET BLANK LAND CONVEYANCES for fle at
the Printing Office in Broughton street.
SAVANNAH; Printed by N. JOHNSTON and t'O*