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ftoaewall, by which mehacholy accident Hie
had both her legs broken. The negro houses
that flood about 200 rods from the house,
were entirely swept off, and 30 or 40 negroes
loft their lives. The rest of the plantations
fuffered much in like manner, according to
their numbers.
The youug canes were twisted off close to
the ground by the fury of the wind, and it is
thought entirely ruined. The negro food is
almost totally deilroyed ; such as potatoes,
yams, calfada, plaintains, &c. The planters
fay that this hurricane exceeds the one that
was in the year i;65. The loss ox their ne
groes, cancs, occ. arc far more considerable
than was ever known before.
The merchants and planters petitioned the
Commander in Chief, praying that fonte mea
furc might be taken to alleviate their fuifer
ings. The next day he ordered all rfce ports
in the itland to be opened for AMERICAN
PRODUCE, except thole articles heretofore
prohibited, free from duty, only the iiland du
ty, which is one per cent. This had effeft
from the 20th of August last, and in to con
tinue till the lft of January, iylip.
Several eflimates have been made of the
loll'es sustained, and the lives that were loft,
by this dreadful hurricane, and it is generally
agreed that there were between 6 and
lives loft, black and white—and that the whole
loss in town and country is 10,000,000 livres.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. iS.
Yesterday arrived at her mornings in th’&,
city, the lhip Alliance, Captain Thomas Read,
in 5 months and 11 days from Canton, in
China, with a most valuable cargo.
Wc hear that in the profccution of this
voyage to that distant country, Captain-Retd
fell in with two illands in the South Sea, which
were not difeovered by any of the great cir
cumnavigators from Europe—one of which
they have nar td Morris and the other Al
liance.
Extra/? of a letter from Providence, Sept. 6>
“ Last Thursday week a Miss , of
llofton, a young lady of family and wealth,
j ut an end to her life by a dose of poison, oc
casioned bv her proving pregnant by her
lifter’s hulband, a Mr. , an Attorney
of eminence in the state of Mrfladhufetts.”
CHARLESTON, o#. 27.
Saturday the installment bill was read a se
cond time in the House of Representatives,
upon which there was a long debate. After
agreeing to the clause for extending the pay
ments to five years, the bill was rc-cummit
ted.
AUGUSTA, Nov. 3.
On the firft day of November died, in Sa
vannah, the Honorable Major-General SA
MUEL ELBERT, whefe death has long been
expended from a tedious and painful illnefr,
which he. bore undimayed, and trifling in hit
God. To enumerate the many excellent qua
lities he pofTefied, would be a task too g:eat
for my feeble pen to undertake :—Yet of him
it may be laid, “ that in all the contioverlies
and difficulties this state has laboured under,
he cheerfully participated; for which purpose
(feeling an inclination for arms) stimulated
by love cf country , he undertook ro encounter
her enemies in the field; difdaiuing any thing
that looked like ftiriuking back from daneer.
He was at the siege of York-Tuwn, in Vir
ginia, where his Excellency General
ton honored him with the command of the
granddepeflte, a port of greattruft and much
honor, and fully answered all the expectations
of his General, by a ftri t\ adherence to his
commands.
This state, from a refped to his abilities,
made him a Major-General of the militia ;
w hich was the last token of her affedion in
that way, and which finiftied his military ca
reer. — A s a further proof of the affedion of
his countrymen, they, by almolt an unani
mous voice, placed him at the helm of go
vernment, at a time when the affairs of the
republic required much attention, as well as
cool deliberationthis important trust he
executed with dignity and to their fatisfadion.
Put alas ! he’s dead, and all Georgia felt the
f roke which deprived them of their gallant
f und ; ** thus to die is to live an age, and per
haps anfwcrs the end of life as well.” As email
his principles were just, cultivated by a good
education ; at a h« fund no v>u itu.r, he was
an
honate mafic r ; *• pcileffmg an honest heart,
lupermr to ti.e ionv arts of dijfimvlaticn and
deceit ; in all his actions he fliewed himfclf to
be a man of honor f — The inhabitants of Sa
\ annah bellowed all the honors of juneral files
to his memory, ami the whole town seemed
as it were to Le enveloped in the general for
ro. * ,c nicni hcrs of the Cincinnati, the
mii.tia of the county with the artillery, the
citizeus of the town, and the rclpedaWe so
ciety of hREE MASONS conipoicd the
solemn procession: “ Solemn iudecd ! for
ELfiERT is uo more.
Immurta. ipirit, farewell! thy weepii g
“ f tend,
This fad last tribute to thy virtues pivs:
“ To,J t*uea mourner, juitiy to commend,
And rich i.i rcvcteuce, tbo* peer in prat/e'
“ But all Georgia will, thy wotth rehearle,
“ d’h ejfliScdfutrJ repeat lb:
Extracts from the Journal of Qn
grels, Saturday, Sept, ij, 1783.
Orngrefs proceeded to the election of a third
Coram.fJiouer to form a Board, purii ant to
tl.c Ordinance of the 7111 May, and the
ballots being taken,
Mr. /ibrabatn Baldwin was elected, hav
ing been previoully nominated by Mr. Ed
wards.
duefday, September 16.
On motion of Mr. Baldwin, seconded by
Mr. Wiliiamfou,
Rfol-ved, That it be and it is hereby re
i commended to the several States, to pass pro
-4 per laws for preventing the tranfportat on of
couvided malefactors front foreign countries
. into the United States..
We are informed that the Creek Indians
have taken a fort, twelv% prisoners, and
killed one hundied and eight perfous on the
frontiers of the state of Franklin. This ac
count is very alarmiug to the frontiers of
Georgia, and without immediate afliftaix ea
great part will feck refuge in the neighbour
ing states.
ExtraS f a letter font Hillsborough (N. C-J
dated Augufl iy.
“ I am just informed, by a gentleman of
character, that the Spanifti Consul has wioie
to the commanding officer of Cumberland,
difavovving the Spaniards to have had any hand
in encouraging the Indians to commit depre
dations 011 the inhabitants of that couutiy.
This, I think, will have a good eft'etf on the
Creeks ; and the adive and ftroug detach
ments under the command of Get e.al Mar
tin, cgaiulf tie Chickamavvgi”®, will, I have
no doubt, bring them to our own terras. This
probably may have happy and good effects
for our country. The prufped of peace, a
new and good road 150 miles nearer than by
the way of Kentu< key, good grazing and a
plenty ot game, will induce a number to emi
grate to Cumberland.”"
NEW METHOD OF DUELLING.
“ On the Bth of February last Robert Keen,
Esq. was brought up to the Court of King’s
. Bench in Ireland, to receive sentence for the
murder of George Nugent Reynolds, Esq.
The circumliances of the case were briefly the
following : These two gentlemen went out to
fight a duel, and when Mr. Reynolds was iu
the act of fc luting Mr. Keon with his hat in
his hand, whiting him a good morning, the
' latter fired his pifled, and thot him through
the head. Upon that Mr Plunket, Mr. Rey
nold’s fecund, called out, a “ horrid murder,”
on which Kcon’s brother replied, “ If you
don’t like it, take that, 1 ' and fnaptra pifio! at
Mr. Plunket, which luckily did-not go off.
The jury lound Mr. Keon guilty in Novem
ber last, but his Counsel moved an arrest of
judgment, and pleaded several errors in the
different proceedings to flop the sentence.
The Court, after the most solemn arguments,
were pleased to overrule all the objedions,
and palled sentence, adjudging Mr. Keon to
be executed on Saturday the 23d February.—
This is another flriking proof that no gentle
man, whatever his rank or lunation may bt,
can violate the laws of his country with im
punity. 1 be unfortunate prisoner was greatly
silcCicd, find behaved with a decorum loitalie
to hit> rnbipj y filiation."
‘Io all the thinking men .73 tU Umtaf
States*
Great complaint* have been made of the
depopulation of our ‘country by emigration
to Kemucke. The low price and excellent
quality of the lands on the weftern waters is
the lo;e caule of tin’s evil. The low price of
the produce is the foie cause of the low price
of thelc lands, for the value of lands in all
countries is in a ratio compounded of the
quantity of the produce obtaiued from them,
and of the price this produce bears at the place
whese it is raised. Indian corn fells arpd per
buthel in Kentuckcy. The land which bears
50 butlitls of it per acre is worth therefore
i-s. 6d. per acre, aud this, we are told is
the average price cf the heft corn lands in that
lettlemcnr. By opening a pallage to the At
lantic through lire M-iifi/ippi, a demand will
be cieated for the produce of the fettlcments
on the Ohio ; and as the quantity of produce
obtaiued from thefc lands will be in propor
tion to their fertility, <hc price of the lands
w 11 be couliderahly higher than the price of
lands in the old and fettled Gates. The cffecla
ot this will he, not only to check emigration
to Kcntuckcy,. but probably to promote mi
gration from Kentucky back again to the
old states,. whet c the lands being Ids pro
ductive, and the pr.ee of grain probably less
than in Kcntuckey, lands will he had at a lcfa
price than in that new country. Nature,
itcceiriiy, iufticT,polity, and (it now appvars)
interefi and felt prelcivation, all call upon
the United Sia:cs to open the navigatio of
the Miffilippi. It is narrow and ininakeu po
lity to .atea.pt to prevent t he depopulation of
the old dares in any other way. Universal
justice is universal imercll, and truth in go
vernment, as well as in other things, is ge
nerally ths reluit of the rejediou of our fir ft
thoughts.
Every family that fettles at Kentuckcy, in
its preler.t Hate of reparation from the Atlan
tic, is 101 lto the union. While the citizens
of that country have no market for their pro
duce, they can pay no part of our national
debt, or of the expences of our government;
and while they arc without commerce, they
will never draw with the old dates in a con
stitution or in a Icgiflation. I repeat again,
that nature, neceflity, jultice, policy, inteicft
and felf preservation, all proclaim in our ears
to open the navigation of the Miflifippi,
Notice.
ALL persons having bufinefV
in the Quarterly Court of
ccniuente, held in Augusta, will
attend at the house lately occu
' pied by Dr. Hall, on Broad
fo*cet, the 20th instant.
By Order of the Court ,
PHILIP CLAYTON, C. C. C.
Nov. 7, 1788.
N~ r ATHANiEL COCKE in
forms me of a horrel Mare,
about 13 hands high, a hanging
mane and switch tail, no brand
perceivable, has ionic fddcle
lpots, 7 cr 8 years old, with a
bell on. The owner must prove
his property before me within
the time prescribed by law.
Wm. Freeman , J. P.
Augusta, Nov. 7, 1788.
A Lift of Defaulters in Capt. Dell Sapp's
Diftritt, Burke county.
MICHAEL Levefton, Luke Sapp, I evy
Sapp, John Permentor, Bellom John-
Itou, Luther Hallwell, Jonas Nouader.
JOHN BELL, Co llt el or. ‘
f£ ADVERTISEMENTS omitted, »iil
be infer.cd iu our uext.