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the butt ends (which have stood on the ground all winter) to get thoroughly dry, ' previously to the dre fling, or a great loss will *■ take place; for if it be wet, die coat or harl on the butt ends of the llalk, for fevea or eight inches, (being the heavier part in pro portion to its length) will go to wafle in the operation of the brake. It (hotild firft be broken in a very coarse brake, the tloat3 or teeth of which fliould be three inches and an half or four inches asunder; then in a com mon flax brake. The fwinglirg is performed much in the fame manner as flax, only applying a more driving (but not harder) stroke, continuing the knife down nearly to the end of the hemp, flicking it as much as poflible with the knife. A man will ch efs about 30 or 40 pounds a day, according to the rot it gets” and its dry ness, and the dryness of the weather at the tune of drefling ; this is very eiTential. I have been informed that Mr. Elisha Rice, of Sudbury, has broke and (wingled 515 pounds of hemp in one day.—The common produce of hemp onan acre of Sudbury land, varies from 9 to u hundred weight. ay* -*$ Snnwnw ftik ft\k ft hi ft sis ft if. sffii aftfe ftm am ft in Z A N T E, May 23. I ARRIVED here on the 17th inst. after a pafiage of y days ; and it is very lucky I did not arrive founcr, as there werecruiflng off here four of the molt daring pirates that ever iufefled these seas ; they spare the lives of no nation. About three weeks ago they took a Dutch fliip ; the Captain only begged the life of a little boy, his l'on, about 13 years of age, which the pirate took and stab / bed before his face, and then murdered the whole crew, took out what they pleased, and funk the fliip. However, two days before I arrived here, five Ruffian privateers came off the illand, and fell in with one of them; these pirates arc manned with Greeks, Sclavonians, and a set of daring fellows, mounting from 16 to 30 guns each; the pirate engaged the whole five a day and night, but, being droVe into a bay in this illand, was obliged to let go his anchor, but still kept them oif, liCfi <*>> 4 #rv «rw J on condition that they fliould not be made slaves, and the Commodore gave his word t they fliould not ; they then took the prisoners on board, and came round into the road ; but the Greek was not so good as his word, for the next morning he made signal for all the Captains, and then ordered all his pri soners upon deck forward. He told the Cap tains to follow his example ; he then went in to the forecaftle, drew his fabre, ordered the pirate Captain before him, who was bui just alive, and gave him two cuts across the face; the rest followed his example. After that a sailor who had his brother killed in the en gagement went to the Captain, and asked the favor that he might have the fi-niftiing of the pirate Captain, which was granted; he then went to the Captain, and llabhed him in the breast; then took a piece of bread, fleeped it in the pirate’s blood as it ran down, and eat it ; then cut otf from his face the flelli piece by piece : he was two hours expiring. They quartered and threw overboard 52; and 28 the Commodore made a present to one of the Captains to- maflacre ia the fame manner; most of the bodies have drove on fliore here fiuce I arrived. I must have palled the other three in the night, as they made for the foot of the Gulph. WARSAW, July 23. Letters from Bohopool of the 14th of this month bring accounts, that the Ruflian fleet <n the 13th, at three o’clock in the morning, attacked again, and completely beat that of the Turks, and burnt four of their largest lliips and teu frigates ; the rest escaped into the openfea; the aftion lasted till noon.—- Oczakow is now attacked by sea, and the Ruf fian camp is but seven we riles from the place. Prince Potemkin has reconnoitred Oczakow in person, and the Turks made a brilk Tally, but were repuifed. The Turk* were drove out of the outworks, the suburbs are burnt, and the Ruflian chall'eurs on foot encamp upou the spot, The garrison is deprived of freth watei, as the Rudiaus are in pofleflion of all the fourccM troin whence they obtained it, V I E N N"7 July l. Though the Advanced guard of the Otto* man army is already encamped in the neigh bout hood of Widin, yet the main body ad vances but llowly. For the honor of huma nity we are happy to hear that the Grand Vi zir has rtrictly prohibited the mutilating and mangling the bodies of those (lain in battle 23. We have received freth letters from Che.fon, bearing date the 4th inrt. by which the news of the defeat of the Ottoman fieet in the Black Sea is confirmed, with this ad ditional circutnfiauce, that the ,day after the action, Rear Admiral Paul Jones went in ptirfuit of the vertels that had fled towards Varna, in the neighborhood of which he came up with them, and took two more fail, on hoard one of which was the Captain Pa cha, who is said to be desperately wound ed. By the fame advices we learn, that the ift in font, (three days after the victory) the fort refs of Oczakow was- inverted on both sides at once; by sea, by Prince de Nassau Seigen, and by land by Prince de Potemkin; in confequeuce of which the Turks made a vigorous fatly, but, after- au obflinate and bloody engagement, wore ? :< -rced to retreat, with the lol> of 1000 men killed, and 800 prisoners. B E R I. I N, July 29. Yerterda-y several private letters were re ceived from Meinel, with the important news that, on the 15th inll. t!ie Swedilh fleet had attacked that of the Ruffians, which failed from Cronftadt, off K.eveJ ; that tliree of the Ruffian ihips were funk, two taken, and the rert dilperfed. Wc have also accounts that the Grand Duke of Rufiia and Count Anhalt are march ed with ten regiments of regular troops to face the Swedes in Finland. L O N D O N, J u l y 22 . There is positive advice from C openhagen that the King of Denmark has refoived, and unequivocally declared, he will a flirt the Em press of Rufiia. Count Bernfloff, the Danifli Minister, has acquainted all the foreign Mi nilters at Copenhagen, “ That the King of Denmark thinks himlelf obliged to furnifh treaty of alliance between \Te at fvvo by puw ers.” After this explicit declaration there can be no longer any doubts pretended refpetfmg Denmark. But this mail contains another piece of news not less important ,’c «, the King of Sweden has required of the King of Prussia. a support of 30,000 men, by vir tue of a treaty of alliance between them.’’ It is added in the re counts brought by the mail, that there is no doubt of this requisi tion being immediately complied with. Besides the powers of the North, those of Spain and Naples are arming. The Spanirti fleet is out, and the Neapolitan is getting rea dy as fart as podible. Augujl i. By a letter from Dantziek, dat ed July 11, we learn, that the Captain Pachi did not quit his lliip until (he was near blow ing up; and that a Ruffian sailor, perceiving he did not take his flag with: him, had the hardiness to fwini on board, and, mounting the rigging whilst the (hip was pouring out flames through every port, he brought the trophy fafe ; and, in confequeuce, had the honor to be sent with it to lay it at the feet of the Empress, who no doubt will properly re ward him. 2,0. The following is an extraft of a let ter from Feterfbnrgh, dated Auguft6. “ As soon as the Prince Potemkin arrived with the Imperial army near Oczakow, and had recon noitred the place, he found that the (hips which had retired in the preceding combat, and especially the gallies that carried large pieces of cannon, would he in a date to im pede our army from approaching the fort, to bombard it. In ctmfequence of which he gave commission to the Duke et Nalfau Siegen to attack those vellels, which he accordingly did in the night between the 11th and 12th of Julv, with an extraordinary courage anti intrepidity. The fight lalled eight hours, un der the cannon of the place. The ene my’s vertels were funk ; we took one galley, and (he others having fuffered from our fire, were forced to run alhore on the coart. In order to lupport our fleet, and divide the at* tcniitfn of the enemy, the Prince Potemkin made at the tame time a UUe attack on the land The light , ro ops of fie advanced guard forrounded lhe town. The corns of chaffcurs of Livonia occupied the garden and covered our bat.ery, w hich was at th| point of the ititrenchment, and so near the town that we could hear the explosion of the cartridges. Our artillery, although not bet ter supported than when exercised, filcncerl the cannon of the enemy, and we loft only one attendant of them, who was killed wit* his horse near the battery. “ Durin S adion the Prince Repnin and General Dolgorucki, as also Lieutenant General Potemkin, who commanded the troops employed on this expedition, were at * the battery, accompanied by Count Branicki, Great General of Poland, and the Prince de Ligne. The Brigadier Verkonlki, comman dant of the chafieurs, diftingunhed iiimfelf with great ability in elevating the cannon Altei the deftrudion of the enemyhs vefiels the fleet direded their fire against the town’ wtth fnch success, that the upper part is near ly reduced to aihes. The enemy loft on this occasion two frigates of 20 guns each, a brig of loguns, and a Kirlanguitfch of 22; a bomb galley, with a mortar and four pieces of cannon ; five fifty oared' gallies, with a 36 and four 12 pounders; besides two trans ports, with 80 puds of gun-powder, a gua ooat with one 24 and one 1 2 pounder.. To tal, ioq pieces of cannon.”' ALBANY, Sept/i* On Thursday last his Excellency the Go vernor and other Commiftioners returned to this city from Fort Schuyler, where they have held treaties with the Onondaga and Oneida Indians. Theie nations have ceded all their lands to the (fate* The land* on both Tides ol the nver whereon the Onondaga village hands, being a trad of about nine miles in length and about eight in breadth, is to re main forever for the use of the Onondagas ; and the lands for one mile around the fait lake is to remain for the common benefit of the citizens of the state and the Onondagas to furnifh. fuel for making fait: a very large traft is in like manner to remain for the uie of the Oneidas. The lands, so to remain tor the Onondagas and the Oneidas, are how evei, not u, Uc mid, leafed, or in anv h! mauner alicucd or disposed of, by these £*? uarious, A traA of ’ foi f r X? n ° alb, and extending from the line of property to the boundary of the Oneida ter ...ory, is alto appropriated for the benefit^ lands for one mile on each fide of Fish Creek are to remain ungranted, and are to be for the common benefit of the citizens of this state and the Oneidas to encamp and land on; and an half mile square, at the distance of every fix miles, along the northern bank of the Oneida lake, is to remain for the fame purpose. The Oneidas have stipulated, that a trad: of tea miles square, on the north fide of the Oneida Lake, shall be granted to Mr. Pen net, of Sheneftady, as a benevolence from their nation to him ; and a tract of two miles square is also to be granted to Mr. Peralhe, in fatisfadion of an injury done to him by one of their nation;. Os the lands referved’ for the use of the Oneidas, the Stockbridge Indians, and also the New-England Indians, under the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. Occuin, are to have their present refpeftive fet*lenient; the former fix miles square, and the latter two miles in breadth and three miles in length. The Onei das have also requeued, .that a mile square adjoining to the trad of Mr. Dean, and of the land to be relerved for their own use, ftiould be granted to Mr. Bleecker, in return for his frequent good offices to them. One thousand crowus in lilver, and goods to the amount of aool. were paid to the O nondagas, and the state is to allow them an nually 500 dollars. Two thouland dollars in silver, goods to the amount of 8001. and pa vilions to the amount of 4001. were paid to the Oneidas, and they are to be allowed an uually 600 dollars. During the treaty a deputation of about 70 persons from the Kcneca nation waited on the Commiffioneri. Their visit, however, * ai only intended as a matk t»f relpect, t or Sa chems and principal Chiefs having, prcvioua to the treaty of bchuylcr, set out to if tend the gcueial tieaiy At Mulkingum*