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public Lntcliigcnccr. SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, Se?tem3lh 15, 18:7. > IN dor of the Trenton (N. J.) Alt | Attimcan, after very copiously commenting up c'n the ftriaurcs- of feme of the Editors in Bos ton, who. attempted to juflify the attack on the American Fugate Chesapeake, obfirves, “Jf any of us had a lrother impressed on beard a Britiih rrm of war—torn violently iom his bafineis and connexions—detained by force month after month and year after year from his country, his kindred and every thing. which renders life happy or even defirable— compelled to fight for his enemies, his oppres sors, and against periiaps cus own nation or her ’ f-hnJs-*—what would be our feelings and our Svilftes 1 Should vve ■ not ci.cciate wie ty-a.it i v.ho enslaved him? Should we not pray for ids deliverance from their hortid thraldom ? Should we not call aloud on our government to demand his release, and count every moment's delay a fin again It humanity? Would we not be ready to devote our fortunes, osr ffrcngtli, and even our lives to the fappprt of ( ioverumont.; in mealurcs to obtain lumi-by ierce, ii refuted to other means ? Every heart, sensible to social or fraternal aiTefliop, replies in the affirmative. And if luch-impreiTed, abided, persecuted brother, Were to make his escape, would we brand him with the opprobrious epithet of a deserter P Would we declare that die officers with whom betook refuge ought to have given him up ? That government ought to enforce his delivery to his dreadful and dreaded foe ? That Britain would be right in linking our (hips and (laughtering onr men to retake him—and all resistance to her or resentment of her con. duct would be wrong ? NO i Is'the indignant answer of every Man, worthy of the name. No ! We should bleed for his fufferings—we ihoukl burn to avenge his wro.gs—we Ihoukl rejoice at his delivcaaace—vre iliou’d clasp him in extacy to our bosoms—and we ftould yield him up to his /ormar eppreffors only with our lp.it breath.— If Government would not protect him, we would net support it—we would defpiid it—we would abjure iz 1 And are not all Americans brothers ? Oj r t we not to xyr.rp \\hl£s with c e another inici'eriag—and unite as one man to redreis or -avenge the injuries which any individual may Jbfl© a ? Yes, verily— **.Agenerous f. eoi: h-p no cold medium Tenor*:, Baras vri a one’lave, .> th one resaatme : t glows.” CIR C UIT CO CRT — 2ICKLIQ ND. Tuesday, September I. —Mr. K ly observed that the opinion delivered.by the Court on yetterd ay, had been maturely cor.iidered by the Counfi.l for the United States, the result of which was, iff t he had nothing further to offi.-r to this Jmy, -i ---, ther of evidence or argument. The Jury then retired, and after an aVfierre of 20 minutes, returned a verdict in the;: words . “ Iv'c, of the Jury, find th ,t Aaron Durr if net “proved to he polity under t ’■is indie! - ret, by any evidence submittedio us. IV:, therefore, find lln not Guilty.” Messrs Ellhll ts Richards, You will please insert in vour ufrfnl pacer, the following extract af a letter from an Officer •in colonel Fuhbo urn's regiment, to his frieiu: at . Hainpilead. \ . “ I have just returned from camp ; the hrt- Jtailion in which I have the honor of Searing a commission, has been encamped for three clays and nights, doing regular camp-duty at V/dtown , Bluff. It ts with pleclare I inform you, that not one officer belonging to the battalion veer, abfeat, and our colonel used every endeavor to intern.?: us ia pur duty. Such was th - ~.a -•! disposition <>f the people, that men of the frit refpeftability and fortune, were found covered vv:.h their bhekets on the ground, and as u! - missive as regular fuidiers could poffil?-- be.— I am truly happy to find my brother ofiswers and foldicra leel as i do, and we only wait h-r at op portunity to revenge the blood of our murdered countrymen” Charleston City Gaz. By n letter of the 81st u’t. received by TuefJay's Mail, from Richmond, it is ilaied, That Chief Juilice Marllr l had, at 3 o’clock that day, ju!l finifhed delivering the opinion of court, reipeftiug the Overt Act, which Virtual ly acquitted col. Burr of Tresfuu, although the Jury would have to bring in a verdict. “ Gol. Burr will be acquitted ot Treason, j because he v/ell knew what conftititted it ; but j he ought to plead guilty of mifdcreennor, in ‘ tvircii case, he miy be favored as to fine and > imprjfc ament/ ib. j Extra? of a utter from Natchitoches, Jut id July 1 ■ ‘ld, ISO 7. “ Captain pike, who has been feme time de tained in the interior provinces of Spa..i'k Ame rica, arrived at this place va the eve of t..e 50th cf lass nip nth” *- \ DEATH OF rRF.BLE. POATr. yKD, (Mhnc) Augnrt ah f adJrefsyon with a hrvvy heart—Our Valuable iV- id, Commw'orft PREBLE, Ins this m.> ent In's i*ft. I have been with hiax frequently fit-ice my arrival here, ffe ha< never bean omen af flibt-d wirh pain and in his Vi sy tail Kionreats EOt a ajjttat and lira frame J .- if fRi RPNdieiiu I j srruzDfd/ v-fgp There have been 1500 persons at a time, i at.the Balltowii Springs, this fc-afon ; and it is fatd to have been extremvly sickly there.—ln one houfie, where about 150 persons lodged, nol Icfs than 100 were affected with the Influen za at the lame time. It was aflTerted by lord Auckland, in the Britifli House of Lords, on the 29th of June, that additional articles of a Treaty between j America and Britain", had been agreed upon, but not signed. There were at Halifax, N. S. on the sth inflant, 19 fail of ships of war, viz. one 74-, three | frigates, tarce sloops of war, one brig, and the rett armed schooners. It is reported that the Governor of Low. cr C vida has issued a Proclamation, requiring all persons in that territory, to take the oath of I a/i-giance.by a certain day, or to depart from ! the province. On the 14th inflant, the companies of Mili tia, in the town ol Sunbury, under the command of captains Puffer and Goodwin, paraded on the Common, for the purpose of detaching soldiers ; according to an adt of congress. A number of refpeclable men of the town convened at the fame time. r Phe true spirit of liberty and freedom prevailed amongst the whole ; and after a spirit. ed and energetic addiefs, delivered by cr.pt. Is rsl Wheeler, an old-revolutionary officer, all, e i ven to a man, (there being collected more than two hundred), volunteered their fervlces for the | defence of their country and liberties. After [which the officers made a return of their quota, many being disappointed that they could not be received.— Boston Palladium. j “ Extra?, of a letter from a gentleman hi Baltimore, , io his friend in Alexandria , dated 2Qth August. “ A report is prevalent here, that the ffiip Othello, from Liverpool for this port, with a cargo of fall goods, had. got fc far up the Bay as olf the mouth of the Patuxent, where ffie lay ■ all Sunday lafl, opposed by head winds; there lay in company with her several other vessels ; i alio for this port, one of which got up yefler | day, and reports, that on Monday morning*, as I they were preparing to fail they fiw the Othello J taken poffefuon of ivy an armed fr.hooner, and flood down the Bay with her. This account is |fo far credited, as to induce several companies j to prepare boats at an hour's notice and proceed [after her. The captain who brings this intelli gence, was net near enough to th (cover, w!v ----1 ther the armed fuhooner was French or Enuli'h O but thinks foe hoiiled French colours at. r tar ing pofieffion of the Othello ; the better opinion, however’is,, that five is neither, but a plate; i. l, uot lik.?'/that a French or Eogylh privat-jer ’ would come up in our Bay. j The-e is an order gone down express from ‘hereto Norfolk, from lecretary omi-h to Cap: Decatur, to proceed with all fpe-.d is quell [ this (hip.” I rmmm I Extra” of a tetter''from a g’-nitentn In Bred a,to | his fiend in Philadelphia, dated Jay*. 1 The particulars of hard fighting bet we*’ the French and Ruffians, the middle of b | month, are by fame luppoiedto be fappreffid, i | order to prevent too lerious an efs. cl on the j, funds, tkc. Gen. Lyman, (the American con ” j ful here,) thinks Bonaparte has given the cen qcl dive flroke to tne Northern Powers; tit ’” a ’ j peace on his own terms inn't eniue, and. But speedily the coait of France wilt again be crowd ■ ; ed v. :i a- ’ each troops, and anew threat of ie v tio:• . r.e co iverfatarns among the Eiuln uii-.fs of d.'i’J.klion here, are, howvv. , i different, and ditedUy the reverie or the ideas c r : Gen. L. “ Fro*n wTat information { can colle.il, our .: ! iiniftere apprehend no difficulty with the .e-.v adiv..iflration, relative to our I'reaty with Eug . land. But there is conliderahle apprehenii a...*. , sunopg the English inerclnnts who have funds |in .'\merica, le it a rupture may take piece be ’ tween the two countries. It is reported, nd ‘ j fear it isc rrcfl', that anew order or Council* | ia9 recently been issued, prohibiting* our firJc... r - (hins fram the freedom of id: Lit ports —. u-J ! perhaps they may extend i: farther. lam er . deavering ta com; to tde rcrl extent ui t.h:s new order. j <( Every th’ vg appears other* ife t vrogrefs here in the ufuai way. There ha; been tier oiy < more dem ud for Britifli manufactures; and the i flocks-ou hai. i are notfo ii.uvy. | “It is generally believed, that although cap". | Whitby w ts acquitted, that it wis not done ia that honorable manner lie could hie wflhed— : vroccediugs, however, have not been pro mulgated.” -■Thu must refer to the rent’..a! of an exi ting order. Kingston, (Jam.) Angnfc 19. The a-crmmt received by but packet, of the and :?e (late of the sugar market, lire fully confirmed by many (ales we have set-n, in which the ‘.lt/ irLiarflc sugar planter has, iuflead of reaping ary benefit from his immense capital, been, b; ought into debt on account of the neces itry fiipplies for his negroes and plantation, the nett proceeds of his crop not being fufficter/c to meet theft’ expenses. Such being, the case, from the exorbitance of the duties on interim! con - fnniptidn, and the exclusion from a foreign mar-j ket, tie ruin or this Ifiand is at hand unless very! speedy and effectual meaftires be adopted to fare it from deflruflioa. An income-tax of half or two-thirds the nett value cf tile colonifts’ pro duce would be lenity to the prelent system, which (wallows up every thing ; arid unless the mother country find means of relieving us from such oppression, (he will realize the ancient fa*; ble of Saturn devouring Ins own children! ! Boston, A-guff 20. j Ye tier day afternoon, the Rev. Joseph Clay, late of Georgia, was in flailed to the Faltoral office cf the firil Baptill Church and Society in this to’vn. The introductory Prayer was offer ed at the Throne of Grace, by the Rev. Mr. Nelson, An appropriate Sermon was preached! jby the Rev. Mr. Grafton. The Fellowlliip of! i the Churches was prefer/ec by Dr. Baldwin ; ! and the concluding Prayer by'the Rev, Hr. ■ Collier. The several pieces of Mufick. were ! performed in a Ryle of uncommon excellence, | and the whole feene was solemn and iiitercfling. New-York, Aiigufl 22. u Vse have, from our friends at ikslifax, ad-j | rrfiral Berkley’s account of the affair cf the Chef-! I apeake, lent oJgkit the inilance oi the admiarl for jus to make what ule of it vve thought fit. It ■ varies little from what vve had previorfiy under-j i flood—The only thing cf moment we learn by! jit is, that the measure emanated.from hirnfelf— 1 , that it was no a rib of his government—.flrong ,) • ‘sure entertained'that the matter will be ac .modatec/’ Noaroti:, Av.guft 27. . lie following certificate, made before the j vColiedlor of this port, has been in type for fame 1 days, but owing to the press of intending mat ter, was omitted. j ” I, Ichnlrd Goodrich, do certify and declare that Joseph Fuller, ir.v.fler of the (loop Friend* 1 (hip, of Frovidence. did, on his a rivalthis port on or about the 19th inflant, afle me how I fold onions sand on mv replying fix cents a bunch, he made anfvver, that he had done better, having sold h:s to ilia si nils') sh >v on the port (or ten <4 - cents a bunch. • ICHAEOD GOODRICH.” Witness, Tuos. Blanchard. In conlequence ot t.;e roove -ert./ m.er triad he;?'. * li-.c . [ ly ~r ?: and Alderinaa, and accquitted on the lo..owing affidavit; , It V.l io-H ’ ? / -',5 4’ * Joresh if'filer, maker, and Benia mi’Tday tlner, n.ate of the fi . ) Frienc .'hip, ot i'rovi dence, (R. I ) being sworn, did dtlpofe and fay, con Hie Vt fl ir.il ib-t’.r.g tlsen on their ws |in Vs r* .*, they we. b wi.T by the B-iti h i L:e ‘ irdv whs t *,!: by • .re: f.o.n on bon- .1 if ‘i<.- 11 CO Li . . > ... i and ‘boin j. 3 boxes cf h irricgs, vvh.ffii *• ere diftrib ;ted he j .. t.se La..pare, a,a . t.la a^rit.... .i , a. h.-J.ad fib'.iie oirierc, and one cLlisr so, 1: rings, i.aco firqueuce ot (rimr ba ! “.r; cr. frt’ght ; which and r .fltton, as refpefli : ■*• .s,. . c : 1 i-y t’.a log-bow... ! .v ,Li j L-.c u.ate and p* * 0.. . and. LONDON, J. ly ?. At sic -v. ‘’ - .■? Q reel ‘s ■ dace, the $7.; 7 Max. ‘ *'w * . IS I .'.’ ‘ present sue .. ±s ai.ss ... ‘‘irrfly 1 1 course!. W'h trees it is expe.Se-if, that the UVerfv c: •ia ig tion and commerce between h:s majeflys fob .9, affi fuTRL cf the United St : cs of kitiei'icii, i.io'ild ffir fhe-jir’- ;-nt com:uu..* ... th? . nas trt; me-*, and under’ the i trap li;.”tat;cv;s, as CoectSc-.t iu th* aid of the 27 ii ot It’s prefei’t aiajefty'a reig , entitled, an for c.-.rryieg i.iU execution the treaty d? amity,’ r : \imerce rad navirv"! >, c ncl id. J be* ./een hie- majtfly. :.1 the Uiv.ted Sins of Am.vie , and in the vti mil'.l in the 46th year el iiis r : ■ 7y : s reign, - ii* coptnnii-ig the find a.fl cfl the J,’th of hi • nt"jffil'y‘s reign, L.s m..je,iy by and wi h the advice and content of!:? privy conned, is her - y * !.ml 1 1 t<>d-’ ■'*ci, tfiy* rdl the regulations -a mD'.iTl in tl*e ftid acb, (hull be d.riy obierved, ’ Multi • 1 >-r prov:,ions fli<ill be w ■ f.e c. iprce. ig the matters .-.lcrc'aid} ami ;..e t gnt bo. or ble, the lards coiamiiuoiyrs of-ins majeltv *s treatury, and the lords cpHifnfififoner: of the achm: aity, * re j ito go - .* the neceiiarv ci.rc aO.is herein ss to ti.eui | ! may rcfpeftwdy appertain, i (in • .e .) \vfi FAWDNER. ir.usr. of l omitoxs. J AMERICAN IK OF.LCOUiIBE BILL. | Jaiy .>• On the motion for the commitment of this bill. j | The hon. Mr. Eden rcfe to oppof? it. He thought that too great indulgences ‘were grout, cl to the Americans by the prefect h'.il, partic ularly when their late nort-unportation v. as taken into coiifideration. lie thought panic ulailr hard upon Br;ti<h merc-ha uts that the;’ fttould he excluded from American pfcrtr—while we admitted American vc-A-ls freely into puts: and even into the ports of Ind j Mr. Role Rated in anfvver that his majeflyffi [miniflers expefted to come to an arrargement 1 with the American which would dta away the hon. gentleman's ebjeefions. —ln the mean time a ckufe was to be ii.fcrted, empowc.- ing his rr.ajefty to suspend the operation of |h<j bill by an order in council, ii the Americans c * not make the neceffafy concession. After a few words from Lord How.ck and the chancellor of the exchequer, the bill went through the/ committee. PORT OF SAVANNAH. ARP.tr RD. , Ship LoUifiana, Pcbt, N. ¥ob, ac days—l.. & Hi'!.. ~ —Rufus, Arntol I, do. 17 -i). Maartcc Brig Luvriy i.af-.W! eelr, do, 8 d-v J & VV.|\!age.-. S"h’r /* urora, Carviiie, Cliarfefion, I do.—maker. Sionp Republican, Brown, ditto, I do. — laafter. ! Came up on t'.ie e* effing of the rjth inflsnt,-the 1 pvfleisgers of the brig Governor TrumbuH, 1 t Burr, from Ni-.v Vork, hound for t'lb [ orr—the Go* j vernnr Trum''u!l went afliore-on .tirtin's (aduftiy •on Ibe morning of the It th, t>i;h va’uab'c which with the veSU we underflaed v.id be entirely loft* KiUGSToir, (Jamaica) Aug. Q. Arrived brig Hiram , Church, Wilmington, Sp days. Under the he of Turk's Island, on the S d infant, the Hiram was boarded by a British shop es-war, end treated politely. On the 6th, fell in with a French privateer, Cate Nicholas Mole, bearing S. 10 league:, which took a way a boat, spare rigging, live flock, (Ac. (fa At 4> ?■ m. same dap, was brought to by two other f ranch privateers, iu‘ finding there bad been visi ters before, permitted tier to proceed. Two hours , after, was boarded by another French privateer . who, thoughfill too late for plunder, was resolved toe American should not gaupuite free, and therefore sent fur seamen belonging to different vessels they i had taken, on board her ; from these men informa j Hot. was chained that jive of the enemy's privai peers were cruising off Cab: Nicholas Mol:. Ch.:zu:to:t, September A the snip PctiMcry, B outers, 57 days from Congo, tv it,h 380 ‘Slaves, to Mr. William Boyd'? : anchored off the bar left evening. j On the'ssth August, ir. Lit. 23, long. 6 *., the Port- Mary encountered a tremendious hurricane? , in which the [hip was totally dismasted. 1 2 ‘he E< I’jh ship of rear Blenheim, Sir T. A :zv . bridge, and the Jays frigate, which were supported to It lost in the East-Indies, have weathered the storm, and arrived safe it: a Bay in the Eland of i Madagascar. Sc hr. Ariel, White, from hence for Pcrt-sa:- Prince, has been s.r fared by a French privateer? it is supposed that she has been recaptured, as she hyd not arrived at St. Jugo de Cuba, whither she was orderrd. T ■ schooner Conneßicut ’ as boarded by the British frigate Milan, and detainedfor two hours, Brig Man, of this pert, oca- spoke July 27th, : ’at. 34, u, N. tong. 33, 42, W. ICO days from Pir ns'’ Ay 'is, far Gibraltar. A .o': \ idensc, Sonar:, fr shi: port? Atari ed at Philadelphia With alt. A THE practice oi riJinrr *a • vt L r the public trees on the ‘ey, hat be come {q it cr.e-il, it may ‘ c necdFuy io i;i ‘orm ibir.e, and raniitd ether:, that I’.’ch ccndubi will be noticed as i v joHiion of cue of the ordinances of f*ti r oil * o In Council, Savannah, Sf ember 14, if.Q7? Hf solved, I hit Council will, on Monday he ilft intL proceed to deft the f Uovd • City ’fleers, with the fabrics hereorto annexed i A Recorder, with fee,—loO dulb. per ana. A Measurer, vath fees—SCO dolls, per an:: . A Messenger, with fees—DO dolls, per mi . A Gtave Bigger and Keeper of the Grave Tart!? wi.h ufaJ fees—loo dolls, persr.num. ALSO, A rhyslA.zti, to attend sick 2nd L.R.vrr* priioners in the Goal, for ore year. A Cvntraßcr- for JLhhth.? the Lamps, dev one year. Persons diipcied to contrast, art re queued to fetid their Fropofals, fe.-.isd up, to the Ciurk‘3 Office. Futraß from the n’> sites, D. D. WILLIAMS C. C. r. Dollars Reward. O’ m R A MAW AY Cre.rr, . * 25 *x fa-ib r, *-s o w rich earned fLffy CHAIU.OIVE ; about five w’.t t'.et hi.b, ar.i about j ; <’f* Hg'*. Shi 13 f* WT*j| kil r ’ A ii til■ cu.y t!i -t -V tu -Hit r and - J “*■ j, p :.j o Hi,y, p.-rton I ut_i * be in >a-?ur.n ! g a or oe i : veil ip; her to <■ K. IT H4’ • jij.B. A . vr. r.l of Pwraty Do'Jars v. C i>c ; vstl i; ic is prove ‘.ii.it ths .s i.so..i <4 by aisy \. ■ ric . Cifiieurber i5 TO RENT, ’ g ‘HAT pleasant and eonvenier. ‘ .tIOi Sf, JL on tie Corner of South anil lle.-uroa • Stre-tt, lately etc. pied by Mss. Trivvai , till the 30th of December next, Possession rattle dictf/y fvven. For term:, aj dy to the sutssiear cn the premises. N. C. RUTHERFORD. July U 49 I