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NASSAU, pNeve Providence) March 2.
ON Saturday a fifhing boat upset in a squall, to the
1 eastward of the harbor, having on board nir. Tho
mas Johnston, nir. Charles Culmer, and a negro. Mr.
John ft on and the negro were unfortunately drowned.
March 9. The fliip Rebecca arrived here yesterday
from Abaco reefs. She was from Baltimore, bound to
Havana, but, the more hafie the vjorfe speed, in 70
hours from the Capes of Virginia, she ran aftiore on the
Abaco reef, to leeward of the Elbow keys, but luckily
beat over and came to an anchor. One of our wreckers
found her in this situation, and after lightening her, by
taking out part of her cargo, piloted her over the reef,
and brought her fafe into this port.
Three of the five people who were saved, contrary to
all hope, from the fliip General Oglethorpe, came to Nas
sau since our Jaft, which gave rife to a report of three
more of the crew of that unfortunate fliip having been
saved,
March 10. The schooners Success, Russel, and Dafli
er, Thompson, both belonging to this port, have been loft
on the Hogfties in a gale of wind, people saved.
March 16. The following are the facts relative to the
death of lieut. Thomas Barnes, of his majesty’s 47th regi
ment of foot, stationed part at Bermuda, and part in this
country.
Lieut. Barnes had been in England fame time in the
recruiting service, and was ordered to join his regiment
with about 6o recruits', .to take passage in the transport
fliip Majestic, capt. Noddings, from the Isle of Wight, to
touch at Ireland to take on board convi ids, thence to pro
ceed to Martinique, and afterwards to Jamaica, by which
route mr. Barnes was to have got to Bermuda.
The Majestic. anchored at Martinique, and, after dis
posing of the convifls, lav in port a few days. -The troops
on board her were under the command of a major M‘Do
nald of the 3d Weft India regiment. The day before this
fliip wis to have proceeded for Jamaica lieut. Barnes ap
plied to the major for leave to go on ftiore to procure fome
small stores, which he was in much need of for himfelf,
but more particularly for mrs. Barnes, who had then been
on board that fliip upwards of three months; to which re
quest he received a peremptory, haughty refufal, and in
turn he made use of fome retort, which irritated the com
manding officer.
Mrs. Barnes was therefore compelled to go on ftiore and
purchase the arti< les without her husband, and flie had not
been there long ere it was difeovered that the Majestic
was getting under fail. Mrs. Barnes immediately went
into the boat, and made every effort to overtake the fliip,
but without effeft, although at one time the boat was
quite near, and file was seen distinctly by all hands on
board, in a small boat, at sea, waving her handkerchief
for them to flop, but the Majestic proceeded, and instead
of Ihortening fail they positively hoisted more. Mrs. Barnes
was therefore driven to the neceflity of returning to a
place where file was an entire stranger, and without money
or clothes.
Admiral Duckworth, in his majesty’s flop Leviathan, so
universally esteemed for his humanity and kindness, being
made acquainted with the above circumstances by mrs.
Barnes, received her on board his own fliip, carried her to
Jamaica in pursuit of her husband, and treated her with
every poilible degree of attention and politeness.
On her arrival at Port Royal, instead of finding her
husband, (lie was told by his brother officers on board the
fame fliip, that the leaving her behind was no doubt a
premeditated thing on the part of major M‘Donald, as a
punishment to her husband, who, finding his entreaties to
flop the fliip to take her on board, and Iris remonstrances
for the situation of his wife, making no iinprelfion on the
obdurate major, and having no weight with the pusillani
mous captain, was driven, in a moment of frenzy or mad
ness, to jump overboard, and was entirely loft.
Proper notice has been taken of this affair in Jamaica,
and a court of inquiry or court martial will of course en
sue.
March 17. The fcliooner Bethia, capt. Calhoun,
from North Carolina, bound to this port, was loft on
Whale Key, Abaco, on Tuesday the 9th instant; the
people and part of the cargo were saved.
March 26. By an arrival this day from Havana we
are informed, that accounts were received there, by an
arrival from Cape Francois, that the insurgents under
Touffaint were completely defeated in a general engage
ment, and that the arch rebel, Touffaint Louverture,
himfelf, fell in the attion.
Deaths.] —Parson Joseph Paul, a free black man.
This man’s character and doctrines were unexceptionable,
nay, highly praifeworth\; lie inculcated principles that
were favorable to order, patience, and resignation to the
Divine Will, and taught that the molt acceptable offering
that man could make to his Creator was to do his duty to
his fellow men in the sphere that Providence had placed
him.—Henrietta Thompson, a free black woman, aged
110 years.
BOSTON, March 12.
ON Wednesday night, about 11 o’clock, a fire broke
out in the store of capt. Joseph Ripley, on mr. Da
vid Spear’s wharf. The store appeared to be almost com
pletely on fire before the aifeovery was made, and consi
derable of the merchandife* it contained, with capt. Rip
ley’s books, were consumed. The tide was out and it was
found difficult to procure Water; but the spirited efforts of
the large collection of citizfcns promised for fome time to
confine the deftru-live element to the building, where,- in
this instance, it commenced the work of devastation. But
these hopes were unhappily illusory. The conflagration
spread to the stores on the Long Wharf, from which a
vail many citizens were engaged in removing the goods, to
guard against the worst which might happen; but their la
bors could not effeft a seasonable removal of all the mer
chandise wh’vh was at hazard. Beside the store occupied
by capt. Ripley, on Spear’s wharf, that occupied by mr.
E. L. Boyd was consumed; and on the Long Wharf the
following stores:
No. 2, or- upied by mr. E. Fries jun.
No. 3, inefirs. Oliver and Proctor.
No. 4, occupied by mr. Benjamin Summer.
No. 5, —il - mr. Joseph Field.
No. 6 William Mackay, and mu Jouan
Bradley. % *
No. 7, —<j . mr. Stephen* Codman.
No. 8, * meiiis. Elijah and Samuel Daven
port. . , , P
Stores No. <> and 10, the former occupied by mr.
Blancliard, aid the latter by Samuel Dillaway and mr.
Gcojjp Bartlett, were extremely injured by toe attempts
to pml them dojwn.
The stores ai Spear’s wharf were owned by mr. David
Spear, /
The amountjof property destroyed is very great. Goods
were removed tom many stores to which the fire did not
extend.
The fire proif store, belonging to mr. Olbore, at the
head of Long jvharf, (No. 1) effectually prevented t .e
progress of the conflagration towards State street. IS one
of the propertvin it was removed.
Ncw-Tork, March 17*
[From paper of the 27th January.]
COUNCIL OF PRIZES.
Sitting of the 27 tb Nivoje , (1 7th January. J
■ The council, Conformably to the convention mane be
tween the French republic and the United States ot Ame
rica, has ordered that the American ship Sarah, taken by
the French privateer Baal gad, together with all the goods
and merchandises compoftiig her cargo, be restored to the
captain of the laid fliip. Upon application for damages
and in ter est the parties were nonfuited.
Philadelphia , March) 19. We are authorized to as
sure the public that mr. King has concluded with the Brit
ifli government an arrangement for the lettlement ot
dispute respecting the 6th and 7th articles of the treaty ct
‘794- .
The United States are to pay a sum agreed upon in lieu
of their engagement under the 6tli article, in three inftri
ments, one upon their exchange of the ratification, the
others in one and two years, without interest.
The commission in London immediately to rcaffemble,
and to proceed in its duties, according to the proviiions of
the 7th article, only that its awards, instead of being pay
able at the tjmes it might appoint, lhall be payable in three
equal inftalraents, corresponding with thole to be paid by
the United States,
A gentlemm in London, to his friend in this city, writes,
under date of the 12th of January:
“ A forgery on the bank has just been difeovered to the
amount of mtny thoiffand pounds, in five and ten pound
notes, executed with so much skill as to elude the ftridleft
ferutiny of the nicest eye.”
Wafhingtrm, March 17. Authentic information has
been received here, tiiat the high court of admiralty in
England has given sentences of restitution in favor of the
following American vessels, and their cargoes, detained
and carried in by Britifli cruisers, and tried by that court,
for attempting to enter the blockaded port of Havre, in
France: 1
Edwin, Robert Follanche, master.
Five Sifters, J. Lunt, do.
Lucy, S. Toppoen, do.
John, John Chester, do.
Sophia, F. Drift'd 1, do.
Sophia, lfiiac Hands, do.
Georgia, J. Lancion, do.
Juno, J. D. Lawrence, do.
Ships and cargoes decreed to be restored on payment of
the captors costs.
March 19. The undersigned, commissary general and
charge des affaires of the French republic, gives information
to all persons whom it may concern, that, in consequence
of the troubles in St. Domingo, all manner of intercourff
is, by order of the commander in chief for the French re
public in the island, prohibited to foreigners, with any otheY
part of the island but the two ports of Cape Francois and
Port Republican, (buffers will arrest all foreign vessels
attempting to enter any other port; and such vessels lhall
be confifca ed, and the commanders severely punillied, as
violating the rights of the French republic, and the law of
nations. *
Fair and regular traders will meet with encouragement
and protection at the two above mentioned places from the
general in chief and ffibordinate authorities. The inter
course between the United States and these two ports is
left open to the American trade. It will be advileable for
merchants who make fliipmeiits to the colony, and who
wilh to meet with no interruption by incurring suspicion of
improper conduel, to 1 take proper certificates from the com
missaries or enmmiffarial agents of the French republic in
the United States, who are inftru&ed to deliver them to
the applicants.
Given at Georgetown, Columbia diftridl, the 27th
Ventoie, 10th year of the French republic,
(18th March, 1802.)
1.. A. Pichon.
The French frigate Bay on naile has arrived at Baltimore,
the captain whereof came 011 Wednesday to this city.
We learn that the French troops had met with no ob
stacles to their progress, and that Chriflophe and Deffa
lines, the two chiefs subordinate to Touffaint, r.ad been
taken prisoners.
Norfolk , Match 27. Arrived the fliip Rebecca, capt.
Black, fix weeks from St. Übes. Left there, capts. Wal
lace and Turner, to fail for Chai lefton in a few days.
Same day arrived in distress, having loft her mart, the
(loop Sally, capt. Wilkin.fon, from Philadelphia, bound
to New Orleans, 5 weeks out. Spoke on the ill inst. the
sloop Bel lona, Hazard, from Charleston, bound to Cape
in .^ at * 2 S” 3° long. 74. who kindly assisted capt.
W tlkitilon in clearing the wreck and getting up a jury
mart: m winch endeavor he stove his boat to pieces.
Charlejhn, April 2. Yesterday arrived, the fliip
John and Francis, Baas, Bourdeaux, 50 days.
Capt. Baas failed from Bourdeaux the 13th of February
by him we learn that the definitive treaty was not then
ligned, at leaf! it was not known at Bourdeaux; tire mi
-11 fliers were still at Amiens, and, notwithstanding the un
expected delay of the ratification, the merchants were un
der no apprehension of a renewal of hoftiliths, but were
! generally altering their armed vessels and privateers rito
merchantmen, and were extending thtir commercial in*,
rests with the greatest aftivity.
Americwi produce of every kind was dull, the market
completelyglutted.
French pmdudlions of every defeription are high and i a
demand.
Capt. Baas informs that the firft consul was still at Lv.
ons, and was expected at Bourdeaux before he returned to •;
Paris.
The Horizon left the Elbe on the 14th February, p ut
into the Downs, and failed again on the 28th. ‘ Capt,
Maiden read a London paper of the 25 th of February *
which dated that no accounts had then been received of
the signing of the definitive treaty. Capt. Mardenbrourit
no English papers, or letters.
Died, on Tuefijay the 30th day of March, in the
year of his age, the lion, rial an us Burke, one of the chan
cellors of this state. He was a native ot Galway in Ireland.
In the death of this great and good man the community in
which he lived has sustained a severe and affiidVing l 0
his friends have to mourn an amiable companion, and A.
merica a patriot of prominent charadler and dilUnguifhed
eminence. ,
On Monday last his excellency governor St. Clair left
this place for the city of Washington. We learn that lie
is gone forward to answer charges of a very serious nature
that are exhibited against him. [ Chillicotbe paper.
Bourdeaux, February ic.
The Gazette of Brunn announces that the knights of
Malta and Bohemia have held, agreeably to the invitation
of the emperor of Russia, a chapter, for the purpose of
proposing anew grand master of the order, and that the
prior of the language of Bohemia, the count de Coloredo,
has obtained the majority of votes.
We are informed from Italy that the new constitution
of the Ciialpine republic is very similar to that of France,
excepting that in lieu of corffuls a prelklent is placed at the
head of the government, who is to exercise his functions
for 20 years.
April 5. Saturday arrived, the fliip Maria, Inglis,
London, 38 davs; brig Eagle, Parker, Nantz, 35 days.
Yesterday arrived, the fliip Pegasus, Jersey, Leghorn,
55, and Malaga, 36 days; brig Fame, Meffioon, Leg.
horn, 55 days.
By the Maria we have received regular files of London
papers to the 21st of February inclulive. Their contents
are very unimportant. Letters of the 23d of February
express doubts of the signing of the definitive treaty. The
firft consul report stated to be extravagant in his demands;
and the Spanish plenipotentiary had positively refufedto
accede to the ceflion of Trinidad. The Dutch, it ijalfo
laid, were averse to the surrender of Ceylon.
About a fortnight since capt. Inglis fell in with the fliip
Two Friends, capt. M'Neil, from Bourdeaux. The Tm
Friends left the river about the 6th of March.
Arrivals from this port.
Ship Rosamund and barque Pallas, at Glasgow.
The fliip Washington, Scot, at London.
The fliip South Carolina, Garman, at Liverpool.
SAVANNAH, April 8.
Union
THE Members of the Union Society are desired t*
meet at the Filature, on Friday the 23d instant, precisely
at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, to tranfadt the bulinefs of
the day, and celebrate the anniveriary.
Peter S. Laffitte, fcc’y.
Savannah, 6 th April , 1802.
MARINE LIST.
Entered Inward.
Schooner Sally, Holmes, Philadelphia
Sloop Governor Tattnall, Buell, Martinique
Schooner Four Brothers, Barton, Port Republic
Brig Difpatcb, Adams, Boflo*
Dean, Akerly, New York
Schooner Industry, Pinder, * B"’ ma*
Sloop Independence, Bennett, lino
Ship Elizabeth, Dyer, H viola
Brig General Warren, Bowman, Cape . : ns’
Schooner Two Sifters, Wdliams, Wa
Brig Dolphin, Johnston, Cape 1
Harlequin, Hazard, Ne ‘fo
Cleared Out.
Brig Eliza, Bunker, Ne “,
Schooner Alexander, Wood, Phil;
Sloop Patfey, Gamewell, j
Schooner Wealthy, Hand, Phil;,
Brig Alexander, Dobie,
Sloop Friendship, Randolph, St.
Schooner Mary, Drummond, B;
Sloop George, Chadbourn, 1 i’ -•*
Brig Venus, Crooker, New York
Ship Diana, Atwood, Demerari
Brig Resource, Neilfon, Ditto
Schooner Tirzah, Coggefhall, St. Mary’s
Schooner Susan, Helms, Bofk*
CUSTOMHOUSE, 25th March, 1802.
Office hours from 8 o’clock a. m. to x p. m.
The reports of Touffaint being killed, and Chriflophe
taken prisoner, are without foundation.
By the General Warren, from Cape Francois, whick
she lefton the 24th ult. we learn, that, a few days previ
ous to her failing, gen. Paul Louverture, brother to Touf
faint, came in with 2000 blacks to the assistance of the
French. Gen. Chriflophe had sent in a lady, for who®
return her children were kept as hostages; Ihe brought let
ters for gen. Le Clerc and the mayor of the town, tl*
contents ot which were not made public; she said dtf-
Chriflophe’s army confifledof about 6coo or 7000 men, in
very good condition, and had plenty of provisions; it * as
ported at Grand Riviere, about 3 leagues from the town!
the whites he had with him were used tolerably well, h> c
not iuffl j red to go to the French army. A74 g llO
arrived on the 23d of March, and landed 800 lbldiers
the belonged to a fleet from France that had on hoard a
reinforcement of 20,000 men, and which was hourly €**
peeled.