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0 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.