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■Supplement to the Georgia State Gazette, No.CIL
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MINGS TON, (Jamaica) June 14.
S') Y a gentleman from St. Domingo we
learn, that, about three weeks ago,
fina l Spaaiih Hoop was l)ing under ,
Altavalla, near the Friar’s Rocks? ort
Biecoafl of Hilpanioia, an Englifli built
ISrigantine, crowded with men, mount
||jg t en carriage guns and a number of
Itivels, beat up under her stern a little
llefore sunset; but getting into shoal wa
|Mr flie suddenly hove to, and lent a boat
IBvith armed men to board the (loop, the
jMaptain of which observing that his in-
IKeiided vilitors were in a (late of hostile
Kreparation, inftant’y dipped his cable,
Enade fail, and ran into shallow water;
Kpoo which several llmts were fired at
Kim from the brig; but night coming on,
Khe Spanish Captain effefted his escape,
Kis velTel being a fall sailer, and himfelf ‘
■well acquainted with the navigation of .
■the coast. Before the Hoop was out
■of fight the boat’s crew belonging
■to the brig boarded a small Spanilh
■schooner, and carried her off. Our in
■formant adds, that the brig carried a blue
■ flag at her ensign ftaff, bespangled with
■ Oars, and to all appearance was an Ame-
I rican pirate.
I Captaine Ingham, on Thursday morn-
I jng, off East End, picked up, in a boat,
I Mr. Jaine 6 Foster, nephew to Captain
I Toiler, of the Duckenfielcl Hall. He had
f Been drogging in his uncle’s lhallop, and
1 was coming from Plantain Garden River,
with 15 hoglheads of sugar and* 4 pun
cheons of rum, for the Ihips lying at Port
Moraut; when the four white men he
had with him mutinied, turned him Into
ibe hold, and threatened him with imme
diate death; but on further consideration,
and at his earnest entreaties to spare his
life, they thought proper to fend him adrift
in the boat.
The villains have proceeded with the
fliallop round the Nonrh Side, but will not
probably fleer for any port in ibis iflaud.
SALEM, July 22.
On the 13th inst. a tremendous storm
cf thunder, rain and hail, fell at Canter
bury, Connecticut, many of the hailltones
as big as musket balls, and fell in such
quantities as to lie three feet deep on the
ground, and to be a foot deep in some
places five days after the florm.
NEW LONDON, July 22.
In our last was publifiied an account of
a number of people being drowned near
Fiftier’s Island ; we since learn that the
■whole number drowned was ten, whose
bodies were all found and buried, that of
Capt. Chapman was found on Tburfday in
only eight feet water, thofame day brought
to town, and on Friday interred. Four
of the people who were in the water, and -
whole strength was nearly exhaufled, were
saved by the extraordinary exertions of
one of their countrymen from the (bore;
moved by their diftrefied situation, he
swam 10 them four different times, and
each time brought one on lliore; but on
landing the fourth, his strength was so
much exhaufled that he swooned.
RICHMOND, July 30.
Extra# cf a letter from Norfolk, dated
July 25, 1788.
«.0n the 2id"inft. camejon here a most
tioleut gale of wind at N. £• which con-
ficued till three o’clock yeflerday morn
ing. Our house shook and worked like a
‘ fbip at sea. Most of the crafts and other
! vessels were driven from their moorings,
some of them into the very streets in
Portfmomh. A brig belonging to a
Frenchman was driven between rhe head
of two wharfs, with her bowsprit into a
- warehouse. A craft with 34 puncheons
of rum, and a parcel of Madeira wine
and sugars, (belonging to Mr. M 4 Dougal)
for Richmond, was driven high and dry
into Portsmouth, but without ary injury.
One craft is funk with tobacco, and num
bers of them in the bulh, and a great many
funk in the river. The damage done in
Norfolk and Portsmouth is pretty consi
derable, especially in lumber, corn, felt,
and tobacco very wet. Hampton road
presented a very dismal profpett; the fliip
Favorite ]ohn parted her cables, and drove
on (bore and bilged, with her fore and
mizen malls cut away; also a brig bound
to Rotterdam, and three other vessels, A
schooner from Barbadoes, cutting away
her malls, an La brig cf Mr. Taylor’s,
loaded with corn for Antigua, With her
top-gallant yards athwart, rode it out, the
only two vessels which were left in the
road. The evening before it came on
there was a fliip and a brig beating into
the Capes, but have not heeu heard of
since. At three o’clock, in the morning,
the wind fiiifted to S. E. and then died
away. The tide was not so high as in
Scptemher 1785.”
On wednefday evening last, during that
severe and tremendous gal*, the fliip Mer
maid, Hunter, of Glasgow, with 367
hoglheads tobacco on board, drove from
her moorings in Hampton road, and, af
ter looting all her mails, Ihe went on shore
at Peg Island, in Nanfemond. All the
crew were saved, and it is thought the
fliip will be got off without any damage
to the cargo.
ALEXANDRIA, July 31.
On the evening of the 23d inst. we had
one of the mod violent florms of wind
and rain ever experienced here, which
continued with unabating fury till the next
day. The wind was at E. N. E. when
the storm began, but, changing suddenly
to the southward, brought in the highest
tide that ever was known in this river,
and the damage done to tobacco, fugax,
fait, &c. in the warehouses in this town,
is computed at Several inhabi
tants on the wharfs were obliged to retire
to &eir chambers, and some were taken
out of their houses in boats. A sloop |
was lodged in Captain Conway’s wharf, |
which has since been launched without
much damage. A schooner was funk at
Colonel Ramsay’s wharf, and a flat drove
on ftiore near Queen-street. In the ware
house at Broad Creek, 300 hoglheads of
tobacco have been damaged, and, from
the continuance of wet weather, itisfup
pofed will be entirely loft.
Since the above storm, arrived here un
der jurymafls, the ship Favourite, Capt.
Silas rones, from Boston to George town,
who met with a violent gale of wind off the \
Capes of Virginia, on the 24th inst. which
twice overfet his ship, and obliged him to
cut away his main and mizen mails. He
informs us he received no other da
mage. * *
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About two o’clock in the afternoon of
the fame day, Capt. Jones spoke a (loop of
40 tons, under her’mainfail and jib only*
from Rhode-Illand bound into the Capes.
The next day Capt. Jones made in for
land, and about live leagues east of Cape
Henry, saw cabin window lights, boards,
&rc. which he supposed belonged to the
sloop, and which he fears foundered in
the gale.
The damage in the country to the wheat,
growing tobacco, Indian corn, &c. is be
yond defeription ; and many planters aud
farmers, who flattered themfelvcs with
much greater crops than have been known
for many years part, had their hopes
blaflsd by the violence of the florin.
AUGUST A Sept. 9.
We learn that the Executive of thf
state of Rhode-Illand will in
convene the Legislature thereof for the
purpofc of calling a convention for consi
dering the proposed constitution. The
weight of the federal senate of Rhode-
Illand, will be as great as that of the
largest state—to preserve the proper bam
lance of power in the national government*
it will be expedient that Rhode-Illand, as
well as Vermont, ihould accede to the new
confederation . j
The Bahama Gazette, of February 23, has
the following ftngular advert i/mt fit.
'Run-away from the fubferiber, about ,
three weeks ago, an elderly man, about
fix feet one inch high, by name Csefar
Brown, by trade a preeubtr , and cau work
a little at the caipenter’s bufmefs. As he
is indented to the fubferiber for three years
he forewarns all persons againfl harbour,
ing or employing him, as they will be \
prosecuted. One guinea will be paid to
any person who will lodge the farfon in
I gaol, or deliver him to the fublcriber.
NaJJau • “ IV • H. Hamilton? <k k
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Academic Society.
THE following Question will be de*
bated on Saturday next, the 13th
ioft.
“ Is the knowledge of the dead lan
“ guages a neceflary part of education
“ in this country ?”
*** Doois will opened, and the de- f
bates commence, at half past 3 o’clock
precisely.
THIS is to give notice, that being j
about to purebafe a lot from John
: Kroufe, in Broad-street, Augusta, known {
j ty the No. 30, we therefore think proper V
to make known the fame, in case any per- [
son Ihould have a mortgage of said lot, 1.
or Ihould there be any incumbrance on
. the fame.
SEBASTIEN BLACHE. < <
JEAN LARY.
jQugufla> Sept. 5* *7,
Lift of Defaulters in Capt. Wat lon’s com
pany, Burke county. j, '
CHAPEL Taylor, james Tones, The- I
mas Frederick, jaceb Readied *
Lewis Stinfon, Cbriftophfer Rutledge «/
Peter Readick, james Chambers, JOI4 f| j
Beat*, Rec,, ? j