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dinary determ;nation is not fully known. Ma
ny cdnjeftnres have arisen on the occasion,
and none of them perhaps founded in truth.
29. It was yesterday confidently reported
epon ’Change, that the Emperor of Morocco
had declared war against this country.
Extra# of a letter from Salisbury , April 28.
“ Tuefday last failed from the I fie of Wight,
in the Lucreria, John Adams, Elq. and Lady,
on their voyage to Boston, in America. They .
spent some days in the island, being detained
by adverse winds.”
SPAIN, April 30.
MTe can assure our readers, from authori
ty, that a press took place at Cadiz the 17th
of April, when tfooo seamen were raised for
the service of the Spanish squadron, which
failed the 22d of last month, confiding ©f 7
(hips of the line, ten frigates, two brigantines,
and one corvette, under the command of Don
jofeph de Cordova.
Our advices further add, that the above
squadron are now cruising off Cape St. Vin
cent, and will be reinforced very soon by 18
fail more, which are only waiting for men,
and are to be commanded by Don Solano.
N E W BURY-POR T, April 3a.
Capt. Moses Gerrifh, of this town, has fa
voured us with the following particulars of
his voyage, and circumstances which occur
red by his being caff on Ihore on the Ifie of
Sables upon his homeward bound passage front
the Banks of Newfoundland : /
“ We failed from this town on the I ith of
September 1787, and after making, to ap
pearance, a fucccfsful fare, made fail for home,
but on the pth of November, meeting with a
heavy gale of wind, about 10 o’clock at night,
being very dark and difntal, (truck on a reef
of sand about 200 yards from the main land,
beat over that, and in a few minutes was fall
on (hore, with five feet of water in the hold.
Finding nothing but a desolate uninhabited
island, and no profpef! of helf from any quar
ter except a kind Providence, we proceeded
to make ourselves as comfortable as our situa
tion would admit of, confrdering we had no
thing but a severe winter before us. In the
fir It place we erected a small building to fereeft
us from the inclemency of the season, with
part of the wreck of our vessel which drove
on (hore, which we made confortable by the
helf of our fails. Our provisions which we
saved lafied us nearly 60 days by careful
tifage : when they were exhausted we were
obliged to kill and eat a number of young
seals, while they lafied ; but the time being
over for them, which was about Christmas,
we had recourle to the horfcs which were put
on the ifiand for the purpose of sustenance of
those who fijould have the misfortune to be
cast on (hore. The number of horses on the
ifiand, as nearly as I could judge, was about
300; we killed and eat 13 of them. We
found one dead, but how long he had been
dead was uncertain; him# by reason of the
heavy weather, we were obliged to eat; after
the fiefii was gone we broke the bones and
made soup of them while we could find any
moiflure in them. Being without ammuni
tion we were obliged to dig pits to betray the
horfcs, it being impoflible to get them any
other way. About the firft of January w*e
saw Capt. Benjamin Chadwell, who was cast
on the island nearly two months before we
saw him ; he was bound from Antigua to the
ifiand of St. John, with a cargo of rum and
sugar, vessel and sugar entirely loft. We
were on the island 160 days.
CHARLESTON, June 23.
Mr. Andrew Keegan, principal owner of
the schooner Two Friends, and of her cargo,
and who was supposed to have (hared the fate
of Mr. Matthew Oode and Capt. Webb, ar
rived here a few days ago. He had given
orders at Newbern for the schooner to.go
round to Sunbury in Georgia, where he fiiould
meet them; but, upon his arrival there, he
saw a ncwlpaper containing an account of the
murder of thoic unfortunate gentlemen, and
immediately set off for this pl.ee, in order to
t«kc poffeflion of the schooner and goods. Mr.
Miubtw Clode wai a brother of Mr. Edward
w of London, had lattlv rtrived
ta NorUi Carolina from Europe, and had an
juteiuion of eiUbUfldof himfeif in Sunbury.
we can allure our readers, from undoubted
DorcJuftir, lias lor iliefe rive years pall plant*
cd cotton, which has flouriflied exceeding
well; he has planted only three acres yearly,
and employed three old hands therein, who
plant and gather it in. With the cotton wool
he gets from it, and the wool of ioo sheep he
has on his plantation, he has constantly clothed
190 Negroes. Four hands are employed dur
ing the winter season to spin it, three hands
with two looms are employed for four months
only in weaving it and preparing it for the
loom. Since which he has found that some
young Negroes that were sent to help the three
hands before mentioned in picking it burnt a
good part of it, to save themselves the trouble
of picking it.
We have the pleasure to add, that a gentle
man planter to the southward has for these
several years planted millet feed in his garden,
for his family use in making puddings ; he
fays he is furc he can rajle two crops a year
of it, and as he finds it fells for 245. to 255.
jer 112 lbs. weight in England, he is deter
mined to plant it for exportation, as it will
grow on high land. It is more esteemed in
England for making puddings than rice is, as
it has a much richer flavor. They make bread
with it in many parts of the world. It has
several medicinal qualities.
On Wednesday the nth inst. departed this
life, alter a long and affliftive illness, Frede
ric Pafchkee, Esq. Captain in the legion un
der the command of the valiant Count Polafki,
in the late American army, aged 44 ; he was
a native of Poland, and always lupported the
character of an irreproachable honest man,
and a brave soldier. His remains were the
next morning refpeftfully depofrted in St. Phi
lip’s church yard, with music playing a solemn
dirge, attended by the society of the Cincin
nati, of which be was a member*
30. The city and county of New-York,
including Long-Island, have entered into an
agreement, that if the Convention cf that state
rtiould rejeft the Federal Constitution, they
would separate and join the state of New-Jer
sey. This momentous determination will
have a great effeft upon the country people,
if they confider their true intereft,for, ffiould
luch an event take pldce, the dignity of the
state of New-York will degenerate into a bar
ren name.
The funds of the United States are at pre
sent in such a miserable situation that, on the
Treasurer being called upon for a state of the
finances with which he is entrusted, his return
was, that he had not fufficient refotirces to
maintain thePrefident’s table for three months.
In a return ptrblifhed in a New-York paper
57 members of the convention for that state
are returned Antifederalifts, and only 19 as
Federal.
July 11. Such is at present the scarcity of
money in Virginia, that a number of prime
Negroes were lately fold at Vendue for 20K
found.
AUGUSTA July 26,
On Tuefday last a Coroners Inquest fat on
the body of Benjamin Townsend, of this place;
who died the preceding day of the wounds he
had received in the morning, by a ftiot from
a gun fired by Abemelech Hawkins, Consta
ble, also of this town and gave the follow
ing verdift : C{ That he received his death
wound by a gun fired at him by Abimelech
Hawkins.”'
The circumstances relative to, and which
preceded this fatal affair, we will endeavour
to relate—Early on Monday morning the de
ceased called on Hawkins at his own house,
and made some enquiries with refpeft to the
levying of an execution which he had put into
his hands—Hawkin’s answer implied, hehad
not levied it, but that he intended to wait a
few days with the person against whom it had
been iflued, and who had promised to make
payment in that fliort time—upon which the
laid deceased beat and wounded the furviror
with a stick, who, in his turn seizing apiftol,
fnappM it at the aflailant, who then retreated,
whilst the bthcr having gone to the window,
f napp’d at him from thtnee, a fccond time—
The deceased then made known his Intentions
(in a very positive and wrathful manner) of
leturning perfectly provided to take revenge,
and went off—meaiiwhile Hawkina anna
himfelf with a mtilket, took the precaution to
Hie her olf, and charge her anew himfelf,
which he did at Mr. Cotton's, The other ihh
failing 10 keep hie promiff, eomea armed with
A muiket to Hawkiiw% house, while the neigh*
« hours, in order to difluade him from his pu£-
pose, inform him that the other had gone off
“ Hawkins, after having conduced himfelf
zs already mentioned, was returning to his
house, when he perceived the deceased—he
immediately called to Mr. Charles Simmons
to keep him off’, alledging a great disparity
between their weapons, hefuppofing his anta
gouift to have a rifle ; the deceased advancing
rapidly, was then interrogated by Hawkins if
he was for it P—-the reply was in theaffirma
tive, and Hawkins’ rejoindre was from his
musket j—-the deceased fell, having received
several buck-shot in his groin, was carried
home, where he lived a few hours in extrem/s
agony, and expired.
*** The Rev. Mr. Abraham Marjhall in
tends preaching a Sermoa in this town, on
the second Sunday in August next.
+t+ The Presentments of the Grand Jury
of Burke county came too late for this day’s
Gazette-—they will be inserted in our next.
——
From the Liverpool General Advertiser •
In this fighting age, the following challenge,
sent by a gentleman of the fads, vulgarly
called a perrivoig-maktr , to a gentleman of
the law, in a town not a hundred miles
from hence, may not perhaps be unaccept
able to our readers.
General , J. Biggs , E. Beggs , O. Boggs,
U. Buggs —The last of these muff be thy ex
trattion, however, shall fay no more of that
at present, only meet meat Mr. W—’s, this
afternoon at three o’clock—it fliall loon be
known who is a fellow, coward.
I am still,
„ ‘ . J 8.
To which the following answer was sent,
Major Wig, Tie, Queu. Bob , alias Old
Scratch —The last of these mull be thy extrac
tion, other wife thou would’ft not, louse
thus thirst for my blood—however, be thou a
spirit of health, or goblin damri d, (harp as thy
razor, red and fiery as thy nose, or frightful
as an Alderman’s wig of thine own fanufac
turing—l’ll meet thee at thine appointed time,
and ere thou canst strap thy razor, nay, be
fore thou canst snap thy fingers, thou shalt be
still, but no more J —.
Limbs perform your office, and leave me
not in the suds, carry me to this bold fhaverj
-—then, fail me if you can.
I am and still shall be,
H v
GEORGIA. TBy Lewis Gardner ,
(L. S.) I Efq.Regifterof Pro-
LEWIS GARDNER, r bats for the County
J of Richmond.
■yy HEREAS David Maxwell, hath applied
to me for letters of administration on
the estate and effefts of Edward Maxwell, de
ceased : These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all and singular the kindred and cre
ditors of the fard deceased, to be and appear
before me at my Office, on the 26th day of
August next, to shew caule, if any they
have, why letters of administration should not
be granted.
Given under my hand and seal, at my ‘
Office, the twenty-sixth day of July, in
the year of our Lord 1788, and in
the 12th year of the Independence of
the United States of America.
Names of persons who have neglefted to re
turn their taxable property to the fubferibec
appointed to receive in Captain Pearre’s
Diftrift.
BARNEY Baxter, John W. Bartlet, Ths.
Bryan, Joseph Cox, George Con, Ro
bert Chrifwell, William Darman, Janies Frith
Demfey Fennell, John Fife, James Grey,
Richard Goodwin, Lewis Goodwin, William
Jones, Thomas Jones, Hetejoncs, William
Jacklon, Alexander M‘Millan, James Moore,
t- Mills, E, Prescott, Samuel Palmer, John
Ridley, Henry Willis, John Winu, John
Vanhidigan,
N amei of persons living in other Diflrifls who
have returned their taxable property to me,
vi/,
Cipt, Ambroie Gordon,
ROBERT FORSYTH*