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IrVok* I-l SAVANNAH, (Georgia,) printed ry Mn THE ELECTORS OF CHAT HA El | ■ COUNTY, I Intending to be a candidate at tnr Broaching eleaion far SIdEA IF F ■‘this County, 1 now appnfe toy te ■ - citizens thereof, pledging my felt K£nth&A dtfdaargeaf the duties ■ the office. —I (hall be thankful Jot ■eif fu Stage I JOHN EPPfNGER. ■ August 25 5 2 ■0 THE ELECTORS OF CKATSM I COUNTY, ■TF announce myself a Condi a‘e for ■ JL SHERIFF, at the ensuing EL cl, cn shall feel grateful to such of my Fel mw-Cmens, as may honor vie with their Miff, rages. W 9 j. F. OATS. I sept. 11 57 ( i3* JOSEPH DAVIS offers ■infeU a candidate for the office or ft nonor, at the ensuing ele&ion, and ■blicks the fuffrages of his Jhilow-citt - ■cns. Aug aft 18 40 I THE SUBSCRIBER, ■ ACQUAINTS the Cltisem cf Savmtmi ?.ad B'-.e Electors of Chatham County generally, thit ii? he a Candidate, at th; enimug Eit&icm for ihc ■act of CORONER. 1 M. WHITLEY. ■ Aaguft 38 £3 I MOUNTIN'ON SCHOOL. HAS some doubts concerning the import ■/'a of the word LODGING has btsn Wtxkf-.ssi’d irv ■s&pr’-’mvkd have perisred th mtommuidcation intimating the opening of mtke Grammar School at Mount-Enon ; t\ mtuhhc are respectfully informed, that u mpnly intends Bid, Bedding and Washing t 17 ‘kg terms of tuition, and hoarding bang at ■ the low rale of one hundred dollars per aa mpun. exclusive of the above mentioned par - Wtitulars. The public ore further informer- Mtke Grammar School is now open jo> t‘<- Mrcception of Scholars. 1 Those Pointers who have been kin, Wenoitgk to mention in their columns tie allud'd to zvill confer a ■ by inserting this explanation. I September 10. I FREE CHILDREN STOLEN. STOLEN from the subscriber, in Wake County , near the Fisk dam Fil'd, on IHe use river, the 21 s nstant, THREE [GIRL CHILDREN of color, ffree | borr\f viz. the eldest named Polly Valeri - \iine. and is remarkable for having a la-gr tumor on her breast, which has been lanced; the next eldest Susan B nnet Valentine ; the youngest Rebecca Hurt Valentine, The eldest aoout 1,5 years old. the next eldest g years old next January, the. youngest g years old January, past. They have very soointh skin, dark mulatto color ; the two young'st very sensible. It is supposed that some dishonest person has taken them off for the purpose of selling them as slaves.~ Eytry per to-’w 0 can give information to the printer hereof so that lean get my children again, will be thankfully received besides malting any satisfaction 1 am able to do ',. NANCY'VALENTINE. Raleigh, ( A J.C.J August 27, 1807. *T For Sale, On a credit till the first of January. A PLANTATION on the Louisville roaa, fiitren miles from Ssv<*jin.>h, con taining fifty acres of good well tiinberer 1 pint land, twenty-five of which arc n w ttiKicr cultivation and gooff fence, weii adapted to the culture of corn and cotter, inown as one cf the befit Hands o t the toad for a tavern.—For trims ot fair, aj>- V ’y *0 the hiblcribcr a this Office. WILLIAM WIGGINS, Augufl <2£ £4 ISj, < 9 ■ üblfc FRIDAY-, DECISION In the Prize Court of Vice-Admiralty cf 3 rmuda. Bermu da, July 25. The Rosanna, Mall , master. WJThis was a fchconer, (laden win a cargo of city goods and Vinous oth t articles, together with a confiderablc quantity of iron in bars) which, tn ‘he piofecution of a voyage from Balti more to Laguira. r n on the rocks off the Weft End ot hole Klands, and was afterwards brought into poir,— Some time afterward*, it being cH(co vered of what her car ,0 confided, troth veffd and cargo v;ete iiz by order of his excel!- nvv ’he go • ’ nor, and proceeded a gain ft in tin cure A claim was given for joint U > . icil, of Baltimore, a citiz >o( t e Ift ;-rd Stat so; America,as theproprietor >i both vest: 1 and cargo. The (ingle ground taken in mppori of the seizure was, that the vuffi ! was engaged in carrying articles c . :.va oand of war, to the colony of -he ene my, After the hearing, his honor the fudge refered the bar iron, which conformed a part of the cargo, to the ordnance ft ore keeper and the mailer builder of the king’s naval yard, to re port their opinion upon us quality and the purposes tor which it was paiMfcu lariy calculated. i heir cerulicate nurported that the ir n, from its-qua •ftty; and the dmienlinns and the nu.h bet* of the bats wa.i, m their opinion, calculated, arid probably destined lor hoflile purposes. This report was excepted on the part of the claimant, and the excep tions argued; and this day the court •gave the following JUDGEMENT: The qu Ition I have to decide in fhis’eaufe is, whether thirty tons ot ron in 13 <0 bars, from q 4 est an inch ;> one inch and a quarter iquare, go ing from the United States to the’ Caraccas* in an American veflel be contraband. I (hall fir It cormder authorities.— ‘.Grot-ius divides the articles of neutral 1 trade into three daffies, one of them immediately ufeful in war : one of no rife at all : and one of a doubtful or double nature. As to the lirlt, it is clear, ih-.it whoever {applies them be comes an encmv hiniihli. With the second, we have nothing to do. But th* third has been the lubjedl of iminite difeuffiion. Amonglt thde things which are of a doubtful'-nature airct a e utetul both in peace and war, he enumerates as examples, 4i Navesy ecqites Navibusas cintd 1 His grand rule, however is, that in judging of articles of a doubtful or double nature, we must he guided bv the bate of the war, “ Dtsltnguenchis belli statin,” But he make no enumeration of the articles. The nfecellity ol the cale will, according to his opinion, juftffy the irueraepung any f ippiies whatever lb the enemy, if the ilate of the war be luch, as to make them ol conleqtience to onr defence. 64 Sub one re restitu tions, nisi aha causa ac. edat. ‘ B} nke r(h oe ckcondcmns thofew hi c h j are adapted to the purposes of war; ‘ nor does u make any aifFerence, ac cording to * im. whether or not, they may be other wile ufuu!, lie rejects j the diftinkliou of Grotiu 5 , concerning double or doubtful nature, as leading to cndlefs contvoverfy*;/ and pronoun ces to be contraband, all things which serve the purposes of war; et sive in,- struvind.a bellied sin, sive materia, \perse bell ■ apta but nat materia ex I qua rud belie apto-ri possit .” A nice to draw s particularly as 3> nkfi'dUieck attempts not yo aIE it U‘; ? by any enumeration. Heirseccius and Touch hold, that all materials, which can be converted | into inftrumerits of war, may be just-y prohibit, eri. Vat:.:! fpep.k.; more diffufe’y j his wot-Is arc these : 44 v henever lan &t war with a nation, both my fafety and weiiar- prompt me to deprive ir, as far ,u- p diiblfc, ci every thing, which may .-• able kto hurt or re hit me. Here .--e law of oecdiity (hews it-s Jorce.- — A <h;, law warrant me on occakon to le : £e what belongs to another, ffiall n iikewife warrant me, to (top every - in-*, reiam’o to war, which neutral ; i utio are carrying to my enemy ; ;even-’ i. fiiould by taking such mea -1 (urt, fender all these neutral nations my enemies, l had better run the ha za~ , than iuffer him, who is actuallv at Wei* with me, to be thus freely sup plied, to the gren increase of his pow er. It is therefore very proper, and very Dstable to the law of nations, which disapproves of multiplying the causes of war; not to conlider thole fetzr.resof the goodsOt neutral nations, ’as acts of hi>ft .fity. Commodities particularly of and n war, and the importation of winch to in enemy is probibnted, ar ceiled contraband goods. Such as arms, military and na -la! stores, timber, hor ses, and even previhons in certain junftures, when there are hopes of re ducing th- enemy dv fa trine.” Here igain we find the rule o’ Grotius a depted. JJistinguendus belli status.” 41 A nation (continues Vatic!) that, without, any other icoiive limn the profjpt- and of gain,iscmployed in iirtngth ening my enemy, without regarding dow far I may fuffer, is certainly Jar from being my friend, cad gives me a. : right to confidei and treat it as the as soc; “ of rr.y er.ctny.’’ Such are he fentiracr.ts of Vattd, the reate ft. champion sos neutral lights of all the regular jurisprudents or the Sift and preceding century. I use the term regular; tor it would be loft time to conlrdef ihe wild theo ries of forrm later writer, to controvert the absurd optuidns of flub iter, to re concile the contrsditetons of bchlegs!, or evert to notice the vtie correlpoud encc of the French min titer Genet. ; We come now to conuder under w hat head iron is to be ranked. iron, wrought into aoineftiu uteri tils, is clearly innocent; wrought into inliru nerus of war clearly contraband; but here v/e have it in the bai, capa ble of having it woiked into th. mofi opposite forms ; Itke hemp, which may be wove into lacks lor gram, 02 fails for ships ; which may be (pun into common twine, or twtftcd into ca bles for ships of war. Still, however, iron, is fii materia, per se, bel!oapia,”j as Ufo, 4 ‘ materia, ex qua quid beilo j aptari poflif.” It lias alio been called by very high authority, * i con traband.” Bar Iron then, being of such doubt ful and ambiguous use, the quantity and dimentions of the bars, an i the paJticuUr ilate of the port of deftina- is! i Tr- elligencer. OCTOBER s, *Zo 7a Normas M’Lx an h? William E. Barnes,. tion, afford the criterion, to enable us to determine on the legality of or ille gality cf transporting u to the enemy ; (For, whether, at the native produce of the country which exports, it Would be entitled to any farther favor or not* is of no moment here, as u is not pre* tended to he American iron.) The f.rft point Z referred to the j MfTer Builder and Ordnance Store j keeper j and there can bo **. bond* ; from their Certificate, but this iron j may be fauly Calleu a naval ami ! tary store, j Now, that iron when so formed, b : to be considered as contraband, mey be clearly inferred, from the case of the Rengende Jacob, lft Robinson ; other Wile, v/het real an could there be for {ending the matter to the inflec tion of the officers of the king’s yards? The United States ihemfeives, seem aware, that unwroUght iron may be a in lome cases, considered contraband, and therefore excepted it in their trea ty with Great Britain, which trca.v would undoubtedly protect the preferie cargo, were it in lorce. But a treaty is concluGve to the yr* ties contra6ting only, so long as it con unres in lorce, and no longer; nor can a treaty between any two nations., affebt a third, for nations are only to be governed by what is established bv general iaw, unless where they agr* to the contrary. Go the second pointy namely, the particular Hate of the port >f deftiuati an. It i 5 ho secret that the Carrac.as are mei.aced from many’ Not only the forces of G iintain ready to attack this colo ny, bui a to:tradable expedition nor long ag >, failed from the port of New- York, toi the p'.vpofe qt freeing the trom the bpaniih govern ment; that this expedition did no: •nett with fuccel’g wc km.-tv well, bdn whether or not, the ohjed of it, is al together abandoned, is more iftan f can fay; At any rate, the executive ofihe colony y trsoft or ought to be? very much on ihe alert, arid i doubc 1 not, but every exertion is now making there to put the pffee in a state ct complete defthee, both by sea and land, Whether (hips of War are builc there, I am not informed, but I fup poie they may be armed and fitted, or at least repaired and fitted there.-o- Whu then is the highly probable des tination of this iron, not affigrted, buc all of the fame delcription, so far ex ceeding in quantity, what fee ms neces iftry (or plantation purposes and the rearing of the Cocoa Nut ? Why meft surely 10 military and Nav.l use; and if so, is it notfubjed to confiscation ? Clearly it is. This was the dittinc tion of Sir William Scott,in the judge Magaretha. And if Cheeses, under such circutnftances, cculd be adjudg-- ed contraband : Iron which has been accounted one of the clrief finev.a ol war, must affiureciiy be so. Ode rfunark i lhall not admit 2 which is that though the claimant had fuftieient time, betv/een the produc tion of the certificate, and the last hearing, to file <my affidavits he might think proper; either refpedting the quality ot the iron, the purpofc lor which i: was particularly adapted, or likely to be applied, or the actual itate of the port, at which it was to be de livered ; he has altogether negleded to do so, and I nauft impute this neg ie6t to’ his having nothing fatssf&ftory to alledge, and not to any disregard to’ his cwo interests. I rejebl the c)ai^ [No. 63.]