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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*