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THURSDAY, March THE GEORGIA SAVANNAH: Printed REBEL ORDINANCE. An ORD IN A NCE qfcertaining • •what Captures on Water Jhal! be lawful, ‘ ‘ ( Concluded from our, last. ) and after the firft y&jd day of'Fefijruary, which F • shall be in theyrar of ft# our Lord one thousand seven hundred andeigh.- ■’ ty-two, any letters of palTport or fafe conduift, granted be-, fore the 27th of March last, under the authority of Cohgrcfs, •to any perlon whatfotYef, for removal of property from a plage beyond lea, w thin the dominons or pofitfljons of the Britilh King, shall be void. Upon the capture of a veftel, com missioned as a man of war or privateer, by any of the weff-ls Os war of the Un ited States of America, the whole of the property contienyned shall be ad judged to the captors, to be divided in the following manner, ffavinof.jtd*-idl persons who shall lose a limb in any engagemcfjt, or (half be otherwise dis abled in the service of the United Statei, every benefit to-tlicm under the tef vfutions of Cong refs of the *Bth day or November* 1775) that is to fay : ‘ ... To tire commander in chief of the fuvy of the United States fliatt be al io tcci one twentieth part of all prizes taken by an armed veflei or veTTUs un der his orders and command; when there shall be no inch commander ini chief, the one twentieth part alloted to ‘’ him shall be paid into the treasury of the United States. To the cap tarn of any fmgle armed vfflel.two twentieth parts, but if more ships or veftels be in company when a -prized'’ taken, then the two twentieth parts shall be divided equally among all the captains. ‘’ f :: To the captains of marines, lieuten ants, and masters, three twentieth parts of all prizes taken when they .re in company, * > be divided equally a motig them. To the lieutenants of marines, fur gcons, chaplains, purlers, boatswains, gunners, carpenters, masters mates, and the fccretary of the fleet, two twentieth parts, and one half of one twentieth parr, to be divided equally among them. > • • t To the following petty warrant offi cers, viz. midffiipmen, (allowing for •eich ship fix, for each brig four, and for each sloop two) captairs, chirks, surgeons mates, faitm-kers, coopers, armpurtrs, (allowing for eac h veflei one of each only) boatswains mates, gunners mates, carpenters mates, (all >wing for each vrifel two of each) cook*, cockfwains, (allowing --t ■ * • * . ‘ ‘ ■- for each veftel one of eathj&rjeants of marines, (allowing two fqf efch ship, andone each brig andtloop) three twentieth parts to be divided equally -among them; and when V prize is taken by any veftel, on boarder company of which the commander in chiefs cook or cock Twain.fhall be add ed to said pe'ty warrant officers, and (hare equally tKym. The remainingeight twentieth parts,* and half of t e one twentieth part, fliall be divided among the rest of the ves sels company or companies as it may happens share and (hare alike. No officer nor man fMSH have any flure but such as are a§uafay on board their fcveral veftels when iny prize or prizes shall be taken, *xetpting only such as may'have been s ordered on board any other prizes, before taken, > or feat away by his or their command ing officer-. b Upon rhe capture of afty other ves sel, if made by a veftel ofjwar belong ing to the United States,lone half the properly condemned fhal be decreed to the United vStates, anj) the other half to the captors, to divided as aforelaid *, if by a private not hav ing a dotnmiftion, the whjule, shall be decreed to the captors •, if by any body or detachment <tf or other troops for the service of the United States, the whole shall be adjudged to the captors, to be divided in propor tion to the pay in the line of the army; ft by inhabitants o£ the Country, being in arms, the whole shall be adjudged to the captors, to be divided equally among them; provided, that it any luch inhabitant shall be woundeJ in making the capture, he flialk be en titled to two shares, and if killed, his legal representative -shall be entitled to four shares; if by the crews ©f British veftels, the whole (hare ftialibe adjudg ed to the captors, to be divided at the diferetion of the court. r| On recapture by an armed veftTel, belonging to the United States, of a veftel under the protection of a veflfel belonging to the enemy, comonftioned as a man of war or privateer, or where the veftel retaken is equipped in a war like manner, the proportion to be with drawnTrom the original owner shall b£ divided as in the case of a capture of an enemy’s veflfel commissioned as a man of war or privateer. v - On recapture by an armed vrlfel be longing to the United States of a ves sel under the protection of an hostile veftel, not cofnmiftoned as a man of war or privateer, and where the veflfel retaken is not equipped in a warlike manner, the propoition to be with drawn born the original owner Hull be divided as in the caflr of an hostile vef ftl not commilfione.d as a man of war or privateer. The rules of deciflon in the ieveral courts Hull be the. rciolution and o*Ji- 14, 1782. [nV i S9 ] R O Y A J. GAZETTE. byJAMESJOHNSTON. nances of the United States in Congress assembled, publick treaties, when de clared to be for by an aft of Congress and the law of nations, according To the general usages of Europe * Publick treaties fliaU have the pre-eminence L. all trials. Jhis ordinance (hall commence in force on the fir ft of February, which will be in the year of our Lord one J|puland seven hundred and eighty two. Dune by the Onited States in Con grtls affemblcd, the fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thou/knd* leven hundred and eighry-one, and in the sixth year of our *i_ __ JOHN HANSON, President. Atttfl. Charles Thomson, Secretary , --- ~ ... . 1 1 , - ■> ‘ _ \ r jj-'F-fE two fallowing picre* rgfpeAing the publication A of Si lat Deane*, Letter* are taken frpn* the frte riun’s Journnl of }aimary 2, *n4 January a. To the PRINTER of the FREEMAN'i JOURNAL. S I R, IT said greet pain* hire heeji taken to prevail on ft>* to lietline printing tlie intercepted letter* under the ftena. tore of Silai Deane, and proltably with fomc fuccef*, aa ydh hive not continued them. While it was doubtful whether they were -genuine or, fpurijui, whether Mr. Ueme had proved treat heron* or not, you might have pm. perl) he lit tted; but America will now b more honchted ky the d<edUoß of b 4 men and their adherent! than &c can be injured by any thing Site* Deane can write. It i* well known in thi, city, and ought to hejb throftgh aU America, that Mr. I>eanr'i former friend* and tealou* fupponer* admir, that though thafe lexers may not be li terally genuine, letter* have been receietd from him con taining 6mil*r fen time lit*, foch * ctiaca hi* bast defer tionbfhia firft principle* and the ofVi*. country; hit ingratitude to the French nation, by which he bad been so kindly treated, hit corruption by the BritWh govern ment, and that he is nw in all rrfpafi*, at he haa ever bee ~ the bosom friend of Arnold. If there an no more of there letter* to be publilbed, it i* hoped fome able pen will take up the f.rbjea, and draw fomo ofcful leflont for thr people of America from the condud of and toward* these two men j and if any remain* of virtue ftitl esift a t n, ng u, procure justice to those thmClcn wKo have been so materially injured by Mr- Deane and hit friend*. Thia ia a debt of ju (lice and honour which ought to be piid, and is probably all the reparation which can be made for the money embt£tle4 f the animosity kindled) and the difgrarr and lha ne into which our publick council* were betrayed by 1 l!i:id p-rv<rfe attachment to a bad man—>an attachuvni vfluch mud hate beet* the effeft of intertß and snutua! or unaccountable infatuation. No real friend to hi* country can look back to the journal* of thirdly, but mail wish rhr proceeding* with rcfpefl to Mr. Deane forever obliterated from the an nil* jot America. And nothing ft more certain than that Congref* have ne ver recovered that ftandilig in the confidence and esteem of the people which they parted before that period. J hare no connexion with either of the gentlemen who h .vefufferei by the injustice of CongrcA, ond it it prob-’ able that the Life Hume which often nieventt individuals from making reparation will do so in the prtfent instance. If thi* Ikottld happen, it will <U one m *re to the many many proofs, we fra, that ingratitude for publick fervice*, and injustice to publick worth, arc not confined to the Eu ropean world. CATO The PRINTER to C A T O SIR, YOU ha*e ingenioully tapped up an unfriendly insinu ation again ft mc f in ike eaordiuip of jour piece n the lafi number of the Freeman’* Journal. You appear to btlieae my cefolutiont of impartiality bad surrendered “ to the “ l P* ,n * that had been taken to prceill on im to de ” printing the intercepted letter* under the figna “ ture of Silas Deane.” For them format ion of you in particular, and the pub lick in fenpral, I shall gire the true rcafon for dlfcontiuo ing the publication of those letters. It is the following*- There h filch a sameness of ideas through the wftolc of hi* letter* as rendemrthdn as tedi-01 and infipid-i* thgy are odiou* and dcteftable. Be turning to those I bare al ready poMiihed, you will find focb evidence of thli at will, 1 doubt not, lead you to be of my opinion. •. “7 One or two gentlemen called, on the appoaraneeof the rccoqd letter, and tedd me they thought there could be no r7*dwntage in publilh.ng them, and dignified their desire that 1 Ihould defilf; adding, at the fame tiiae, that they ■were of a tre tfoliable nature, Ac. |, however, was of a dif fisrent opinion, and cooiinucd the poMicatib of them, until 1 found the doU.repetition of fcatimeat, and even espreflion, grow difgoßing; and tktt Deane’* intentiooa w L frf 10 a* faoooHw principle, through the con.meat at ttufamc tioie, ‘ , ®. u a’ j •• whom Deane ad drefled m. i.vttey, mjg of them ever Sonified to M the least define of flafPHmlftkcir rcpubht^oii*