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,ing jui Swedifli relations, that Lne king and crown prince of that kingdom were extremely friendly to the United Stares; that they af forded every facility ro our com merce with their dominions, and with the northern ports generally ; that they do not allow British crui sers to difpole of t Heir American prizes in their territory : dial Great Britain had become difeontented with Sw.den on ’ he fubjeuf; that there was reason to fear that the British intrigue, if not counts rail ed would influence Sweden to an unfriendly conduct towards us; that ! so anxious was the Swtdifh court ♦n cultivate our good will, that it • had appointed a mir.iiter to this coumrv, k.Y|#v<.V. l u (junlnr ap pointment on the part of America. The I’tince of Sweden had alio made known to England his dtfire to fee a good uruli rftanding reftor cd between the United States and the British cabinet. This limple and cogent flatement of iafts {hows the policy of the nomination made bv the Prcfulcnt. The ability of Mr. Russell is uv.queflit nable His diplomatic cxoi.ru nee and fit. nefs are equally unequivocal. }*i at rsßi'RC, July SI. J'he following v.s: handed us for publication as a literal tranflatirn of the Declaration of War againff the British by the Six Nations of Indi ans : DECLARATION of WAR By the Six Nations of Indians. WE the Chiefs and Councilors of the Si;; Nath ns ( f Ir li.ius, refi lling in the State of New- York, do iui’by proclaim to all the War Chiefs and Warriors of tin S'x Na i ;>ns, ‘.h..t War is declared on our part, againff the Province ol Upper and Lw< r Canada. Therefore v. c do hereby com mand and advill ail the War Chiefs to call f tth immediately the War ri rs under them and put them in motion to protect their rights and liberties, which cur brethren the Americans are now defending Signed, /tj the Giand Counsellors. Chcnipcake and Shannon. .tract r,f a Liter from an officer in Ihe na~ y it an cilicer in the army. “ I believe from what vou fay, .hat you are diipofed to think that Gupt. Lawrence iutenied to board the Shannon; the fact was fluted ro me ctherwife, and Capt. Law rence has frequently told me that our superiority in gunnery was so nanifeft, that he would board until his midis were disabled. The fccond brradf.Je Capt Lawrence fwith every ether officer on the up per deck who was not killed) was n'ounJcJ tmd fell exclaim ing “ fire away, my lads/’ By the time the Chefapeuke had hanged a lirrle ahead of the Shannon, her jib-sheet was cut ur.d the flings of the fore-top-fril-yard, which bro’t it on the cap, her fpanl.er brails be •ng cut, and no doubt her bowlines and braces, her spanker flew out and luffed her into the wind, when /ne took aback, got astern way and fell with her quarter foul of the Shannon’s Larboard anchor. Capt. ; Lawrence all this lime lying on the i deck calling the boarders, lieuten ant Coxe being one came on deck .nd aflifted in carrying Capt. Law rence below !! l.i the mean time Com. Brooke boarded at the head {2° m r n ihe w-\- (hot in the iv hy the Chaplain (Livermore) who at the lame time he (Brooke) cut down with his fabre. 1 ivenue.re has fires arrived at Boflon, and fays if there had been an officer with twenty men on Imr quarter deck the fate of the a..ion would have been dliicrent, fer it was three or four tni::ut*.s before other boarders joined the lit ft. Yet at this time Mr. Budd tells us he was..hoarding the fore tack to got the flaps clear; d—n fur h hoard: ■;g when the enemy was boarding the quarter deck!! After the enemy had undoubted poflVfii"n ’f the ship they ft ill con t tir.uec! i:i a troll ferocious and har bnrous manner to f! • ot and cut our brave tars, and heir ftrfi lieutenant was f!:et by an American from the main-top, while mangling the dying and the wounded on the quarter dec h : ()ur midfliipmen were plunder i of tlu.it clothes, and when they complained to the commanding of ficer, he told thim ‘-by (J—d if 1 hf*.<r any more c 1 your c< mpl,tints I wid put \t u ;!•,n in tile hoi , with tite men.” l*\n tin. tu.lli of this dr, 1 wilt anlvwr with nty lit’ , and 1 hope you will not hitter the contrary to he advanced in your prefencc. It was with difficulty the Shan, non wits kept ufl at the night after the adtir.n, the Chefapcake cm the contrary received fcurccly any dam age from the sh it of her opponent. ‘1 he English i fficers did not hefitatc to fay they could not have witti ltood the fire of the Chdapeake 10 minutes longer.” MAGNANIMITY. It is with great pleasure we learn tint (.'apt. George Ciowiiiofhh IJ, Jr. of Salem, has made the mag nanimous offir to the l’rtfluent id the United States, to proceed to II ilifax in a brig at hi- individual expetife, to procure and bring ro his native land the’ remains of the fallen Hero, Capt. JAMES LAW RENCE, that he may be interred with those funcrsl h mors t> which his character is so eminently enti tled. Capt. Crowf.inflii 1:1 Ins re ceived the* thunks of the PieAdc-nt of tlie United Statts, very hand fjtnsly expreffi-d in letters from the Secretaiies of State and of the Na vy, forthe highly honorable motives by w liich he is actuated ; and a lia% if TANARUS) luc has been granted him w it h the neceflary documents to procure the corpse of the deceaft and nr 17 ili ia>:. Boston Pa!net. Nt vV-London, Augufl 1 i. On Saturday lafl the Ramilies and Orpheus re fumed their flat:*in a few miles from our Light lioufe. On Sunday evening a fmu.ll (loop which had been out with a failing party, was chafed int > pc:t by the Orpheus, who fired a great num ber of single guns at her, arid wound up the chafe by firing two broad fi k.u Noneof ti efh it came within forty rods of the Hoop.— Ihe guard fired a fix plunder at tile frigate, which v.as cordially re turned, without any injury. A GOOD PRIZE. I • Jhe prize sent into St. Ala 1 A by the privateer Saucy Jack, on the Jdih iuit. is the lLiti'h hi!;; fhrrc Brothers, from Cpe lianc ir, hound to J/vcrpool with a cargo ct nfifting of 26*16 lings and -10 tier r,’c of ceflvo. Savannah I'ctub. MONI T O R Saturday, September 4. - • O • —i Maj >r Nicholas Fong of this place, has been appointed Colonel of rfce 43rd I J. S. regiment, to be raili and in the dates of North 5c South Carolina and Georgia. A Rl.-POR 1 lias reached us informing, that an cxprtls from ! Col. Hawkins to Fort if aw kin; da t'd, that the noflile Indians, appro henfive ol the force to be marched again ft them, ! aJ difporfed or fled, and begged protection. Reports in part the fume with th.e above, have been for several days in circu lation, and obtain credence. Occurrence ! ViT. are informed, by good au thority, that the following remaik- j able case occurred in the upper part of South Caiolina, a few weeks , ago: A liutlund, who luppoftd 1 lit had caule to lufped the \irtue of his wife, and the guilt of his neigh bor, charged her with the ciiine, and a quarrel cnftvd—l he husb and in few hums afterwards went from home. Soon after he had g’ tie, the !ufpeeled intruder came*, and the wife Wv.nt oti with him.— On the icturn of the hulband he : enquired where his wile was, and 1 was intormed by tfie children that (he had gon. awry with Mr. ! Ile immediately alarmed the nei h- j horhooJ, and fcarched for her. A day or two aft i wards, the criminal lovers were found, both dead, at the root of a small tree —and in a petition that fully t-Uablifhed their guilt. They were killed bv light- ! niny ; and what is very lingular, there* was only one flalh, and that j so faint as n.i to fie perceived by ‘ manv in the neighborhood. Mill ‘l,is v/U \ ~ uiftt v? -ji-. The fate of the hoflile Indians ts f.tfl drawing to aci ifis. The troops to be employed pgainft them are concentrating on the Frontier, and will he in nad in-:!- to ad very toon. Between f x and seven hundred have pa fled through this plage with in a few days—lndeed, nothing is seen c.r heard but the hufy note cf preparation. Gen. Stewart having declined, the command of the expedition is now oflered to Gen. Floyd of Cam den county, who is fa id to be an excellent officer. There is lit'.ia doubt but he will accept. Affair* in the Nation have re cer.'iy undergone but little change. The tiiendly Indians (till continue at C'.owetau, much in want of pro visions. The waring- party, it is said, are fortifying thetnlelves about thirty miles dillanf, where they in tend giving us battle. The cyprels feat l y fbs T.xctl : lcncy to the Governor of TenntfTee, acquainting him wish the iioUile in- I tenth r.s cf the Indians, icturned on Monday. We undtrfland that gov- 1 en.or Blount will not call out the I Mililip. till r Dead cr Jen to that cf- : i fi ct are received from the General j Government — of Ceurie, we shall have the “ tug of ua: ,J cxcluiivcly to out fv! ves. [Ju ut nr.!. Ihc Fxpi ifs font to the Oovern nr of Ti-nncif.e, letnn.cd cn Mon day iaft, and brought litters to the Governor, dated the 1/ith it.if.— 1 Gov. Blount decs r.ct c ai.liMr the letter cf the Secretary ;.t War.. requiftticn on him to furnifh men to go agaitifl the Creeks; bu f a; evincive of a determination on ilie part of rlie povernnunt to punilh the lioflile Indians—and tLink . ,‘iOCK') instead if 1500 would Ive ne ceflary to cfliCt that nhjicf, and that that number ct uKI be as es flly < btained as 1500. but is dii poled to wait for funlur Older?. Governor Blount tlhi Its if a ju: c tioti i? formed between tin Geor gia and I emu flee tro,.pb, that the Falls of Cot.la will be ihe pn pc r place, and that a junction or grand re:nies:vou should ! e f- rnuii :*t r r near the ILtkmy G: und. We are informed from ref;levia ble nutliority that a detachment of licitik Indians fome elay., hnce, hav ing determined to con e h and kill Mr. R jothc* of Jones cci nty, fe-t out in puri’uana: of tln-ir ilefign ; vhen th. y were ovtrtaken I v a p;uty of t!i<: hicndly Imii.-.t v.h.o kiiled lour and repul! J tliena. lb. Col. Wellborn ve underflan has received orders to tnnvh v.itk his troops from .Sj'ibuiy, to Fort llawkins, to be in it ..Ti cE to go r.gainlt the Cnik Indians, in aid c: the militia of Georgia. RuL'i-dj litist.r Col. John Williams of Knox i ville, I en. is appoiutt cl to comma:.;! the 39th U. b. rcgiuif iit, to l e *<d!- i ed m ihe itatu id i cnnclke. . I * 1 ■ 1 THE LOAN —We arc inform ed, lays the Bcflon Patriot, from a correct L.urce, that a geurieman io empowered :.:id stands ica. v (e talc U.: labels Lean. j ——_ IVev.hinuton-Lit.h ud 1? Very late f: cm Lake Ontario. i • trivaxi* roßßrponr \ nct. Fo.’.t Cm,: /, August 8. Ytflerday moining ct day iight the Ji.'uifh fleet was diicovtued ctofe in fhort*, about two mile; to tlie weft of this. C cm. Chsunrey v.a c at this time lying with Li> fleet < h the l our Mile cretkonthe AmeA can fide, ihe v.:nd at S. W. and of ceurfe in favor of the Britiih. As loon as they were difeovered, Com. Chauncty got under wav, and ffo.irf out into tne lake in f ne ed battle, lying as rear as potlibL to the wind, ihe Britiih a; the fame time, and in the fame older, flood cut with a fine v.ind in a di rt dion to meet our lit)-.* neaily at , light angle?—tin. two c;rnmocore’s ships m front. On approaching v.itliin a mile of each other, Sir Jan.es icn btooght hio flup e.oic upon the wind, as did all the rest c;i his fleet, and flood off. At t!.k time, Com.Chaunicy fired a b< i d f:dc as a challenge-, which was r.c’ i accepted. I hey c; t.iir.ued man o.uvrcir.g the whclc day in t!.e , course of w hir b they gaiiuu 8 or I f j , miles up the lake—it being itopof ■ f.ble to bring the Briti:;: (Ye t tv i.c i ticn, on account of tbe wind being ’ to the v.tR. At day light tiri.? v.cnc.rg b ‘ h 1 fleets v. (re t? ifcf/’ cTi.ii abc ut 1•* ■ miles up the bake and tv.o or three miles apart ; lincc which CYmmo. dote* Clhauncey has come down, and nov/ lii*s tour miles above i<: < rd:*r of battle. ‘) be* liiitiffi -„:r tick.* in fiiore, m ar the 12 mil*, uenk, fuppofeel to be oppofte a j art of their land forces. (Em. Chav.i'e* y fa ‘vo cr.*n ! A