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‘[Vol. I.]
SAVANNAH, (GsokGXA,) prihtsjJ sy
NOTICE.
THE fir® of fiI'LEJN y BARNES
•3 cay du'Hlved, by mutual concent;—la
pi%aetf of which, the bu&wfs will in fat*
tm c l) 1 ’ Ctwßui&d hy German M Lem.
NOR MAN M'LRAN)
WILLIAM 2. BARNES.
fOd, Odober, 3807.
THE faticribcr, this ‘lay, becomes
f ; fe proprietor of the Public htdligsncer.—
T’ -.teffhbpHnent has hitherto been ceudutT sd,
he jn filch a manner, as wSi lycureit from
fc!y fatjon of a pre&le&bi* for principle*
, ::t . :t to such 3S a&uatcd the heroes of Ho
SclievMg, with deference to pT.l’c ettin-
E,i, that ti 4 eftabliihment has progressed hither
to -nthp-vt tnc fryalkft diveli&bo from firm, un
mixed and glowing Republican frvifiients, he
bones that conlideration vtii.be 3'infßcisnt gu-ii
jjtrl ir future perieverance and ardor in fup*-’
pqrt of.fuch sentiments. That ro .exertions of]
ii'a tiiall be heeded, he solemnly pledges him
fcif. NORMAN NTEEAM.
“BT^CJBrooks,
If.WS JO*T RECEIV.
f;r jehr . Rs:ia>tap; Bnmttdijron HwT&h
1
k pipes real old Cogm*c £P ’.NDY.
A- oin.o Nples
7 pipes old \ladc>ia WINS
* LOAF SUGAR.
io o . rels 3
6 V’’e 2sd 1 tMa HYSON TEA.
ia ..Mi 3
, . . hjtoucq
£> buses ihuriktlc’s SOAP
1 box Irtfll LINEN, and
4 j hi:tela SUPMUTNF, FLOUR, no
•morethan days from the jnili.
Which they will fell at their usual ov
pi ices; September 2,5/ 01
i ;;O |j NT - £NON SCHOOL, •
/* 3 sone doubts concerning the import
JJ:\. of the word LODGING, has been
t/.-'. --ssed by some who h ive perused in
M • -..’.uicaiion intimating the opening oj
tie Vrpmmtr School at Mount.£non ; in
~p.‘.o!fc art resheßjully informed, tnat 1.
0/if intends ‘ Bed f Bedding and Washing 1
•'i firms df tuition and boarding being a
tin !u:o rate of one hundred dollars pit an
ir.ux exclusive of the above mentioned pur
friirs, • fke bubtit are further info tinea
L-: • r'unifhar School is now open jot to:
1 p’icn rs Scholars.
’ Jhape Printers who have been him,
tnmffi to pun it on in their coin “ins ! s
■ !'s> • • .nnicapon alluded to it'll confer an
l itiigilian tty inserting this explanation*
f Se.tmnbi lT 10.
|JN COUNCIL.
sATAm,’jnc, sth October, 1807.
P.T oQL' r ED, that dririug the months ol
/.vgeft, Bep.ember and O&nher, the Military
l’ prda lions, when srrottipaoied with mu*
bring ire attended with eac£b highly per.
ri.:io to fi It persons, it is'therefore recoin,
ftvutka to tile Military Commandant of the ci
t' v . ’ ri to-th ; officers cf the militia generally,
that {S’- cuff- m of firing and attending funerals
Vwh ditar niufic during the above mentioned
sio;.;h:,bc t (continued in future.
£ trail frees the minutes.
!I). Lb WILLIAMS, C. C.
Public
FRIDAY.,
GEORGIA, j
By his llxiclienry Jared Irwin, Gov-]
ernor and Commander in Chits of
the Army and Navy of tin State $
and of ike Militia tbj.ru} :
[ ! A PROCLAMATION.
\\ J ll F,H LAN in ;md by an aO paL
V fed at I.u’ M i . :i!e, rn the 7th
cf December, 1805, emitted an Act
a to eftahlnh the number of Comijiif
libners for the Town,of tvliiledge-!
vii 3.-. c:od to extend and define their)
pow vri,” r is among odicr things de ;
dared, ** that if accommodatiosis in !
the judgment cf the Coraoililoners
can be jrad for the Members of the
next LftufiatAre, and the State House
‘■J * j
In fitch iiate as to admit the next lef-j
lion to he held thereat, it ihall be the;
duty of the Ccinniifiioners to notify |
ins Lx< ejfeinoy the Governor thereof,
and his Lxeellen.Ly, by Pjoclamaticm,
to require the meeting of the next
General Aifembly thereat.”
“And, whereas, the (rid Comroif |
aooeis di iOO ihe r6th nvftant, report,
‘•That in their judgment arcornmo- {
danon- could be had for the Mem
bers of the ofxt Leydlalure, and the
Gue jlovfe in fqch ibie to admit
the next f {Ron *b be held thereat.”
! have thought fit to iffae this my
Proclamation, hereby noticing, that
the r.exx feilion of the General Af
fembly will be hell at Niiiledgevtile,
n Baldwin County, and do hereby
require that aif pwfons ricaed to re
ijrefent this state id the next General
.1 {Terribly, to glye their attendance at
drat place on the day pointed out by
law.
Given under my hand and the great
feai of the (late, at the State
House >n Louifvtlle, on the 24th
day of September, in the year o!
our Lord eighteen hundred and
fevcß, and oi (he Indt per.dtnct
of the United State , oi Ameri
ca the tl.tr:y-f?cond.
| A RED IRWIN.
By the G ever no':.
HOR ; MAP BURY,
(G3) Secretary of State.
15 Dollars Reward.
A a Rout three wtelts a-
A. go a NEGRO MAN na.red JIM.
4 idvlor ; a ftf.ut weii marie fallow, (irjoott
lace, his eyes large, about fi/e feet ten in
ch h;th. Had or. when he went off., a
fuflfet* j-.cket and o-'-ralt 1 -'; a black ’lat.anti
white dr, He pretrr.dt to 5 e I •mc’.hinv
o) j, 1 Ac 7, and may probably attempt <•
.7 t <>B’ in Jom / ’ velfA. A i fuafters g!
M i ...
feeflefe are therActe cauuuncd .j'Auiil tuk
mg him off.
The above reward will he pc id to any
pgr on who will feci.ws. huri irt any gt>a!
,r ‘ht; ftaie, or cte* air hi in to the fubferi-
L:r ; and five dollars will he p .id for
inlorination that will lead to secure fiitq.
George Enoe.
September jH
Wanted Immediately ,
A.> ailii'i negro £oy about IS of age.
■Apply at this ‘OJjiie. dp- dsn ...GO
REPORT
Cf a Ccfimiil&f of the British ffmtt cf
Commons on the West-Indict Cci
cnies.
THE committee who were ap
pointed to take into confederation the
commercial iiate of the Wi i India
Celonies, and to report their proceed
degs, from uinc to time, to the house
of commons, and who were empow
ered to report the minutes of evidence
taken before them; and to whom ail
minutes of evidence which were taken
before the committee in die lafl ‘lflion
of Farliamem, on the Weft-India
planter’s petitions, together with their
proceedii'gs, i;erc referred ; have,
put fuant to an order of the house, ex
amined the mailers to them referred,
and have agreed to the following re
port :
Your committee have thought it
their duty, in the fir ft place, to en
quire into thr fnuatioh of the Well-
Indies at the present moment, and for
several years preceding; tind have ex
amined varipus refpebtable witneifes,
proprietors of tfta'.es, who have redd
ed many years in the Weft Indies,
and who had the properties ol several
absentees under their xnanagement ;
and also many merchants intimately
acquainted with the expences and pro
fits of a great variety of estates, and
generally, conversant with the Welt
indta commerce. From their telli
iriony it appears, that since the year
1 799i l^”re fa * ien place, a progref
livc deterioration in the lituation oi
the planters, reftiiting from a progref
iive diminution of the price of sugar,
Ithough at the fame time the dutv
and all the expences attending the cub
tiyation have been encreafed, till at
length the depression of the marker
has become such, that the prices cb
rained for the iaft year’s crop, will
not pay the expence of cultivation,
except upon eliates of a very great
■calc, making sugar of a very superior
quality, or enjoying other very fupe
nor advantages. Calculations have
been laid before your committee,
from the accounts of the estates both
in Jamaica, and the other iHands, by
which it appears, that the British lup
piies and island expences amount to
20s. tod. iri the former, and to 19s.
6d. in the latter, on the cwt. of sugar,
after accounting aud giving credit for
the amount received for the fide of
rum. As ihefe calculations are form
ed upon an average of years, and up
on estates of the ordinary scale, and
in no refpefls unufua’.ly circumftanc
cd,- it appears to your conuxuttee that
these sums per cwt. of sugar may be
taken as an average expence of culti
vation, independent ol interests upon
the capital; ami your committee are
confirmed in this opinion, by findings
timiiar calculation in the report made
by the sugar distillery, in the last par
liament. To this mull be added, ao
expence of 155.60. per cwt. nccelTaTi
!y incurred, tor freight, iaiisrance and
other mercantile sharges., between the
Intelligencer.
OCTOBER 23, 1807.
NORMAN McLEAN.
{hipping of the goods, in the colonies*
and their being offered to market in
this kingdom, formiagtogctherana
moum of 355. to 365. which appears
upon this evidence to be abfoluie cofl
to the planter per cwt. cf Sugar, be
fore any return of capital can attach.
Upon a reference to the average pri
ces published in the Gazette, for the
last eight months, which vary from
365. to 3 1 s. giving a mean price of 335.
6d. it appears evident that the plan
ters mu ft have cultivated their eliates
a: a lois.
The in ter est which had been stated
to your committee as what should be
the fair ptofirupon the capital of such
a nature as that of a sugar estate, con
sisting not merely of land and negroes,
hut of buildings of great extent and
cofl, neceifary for the carrying on of
such a manufafture, and fubjebi to va
rious and peculiar risks and vicifti
tudes, is not less than 10 per cent.
During the period of prosperity,
previous to 1800, it is stated, that in
general, the profits did not exceed that
sum ; and that, from that period, they
have gradually ditninifhed to 2 1 a
arid t r-2 per cent, till at the present
moment, there is no return of ifuereft
whatever.
It may perhaps be right to notice
one exception, namely, of an estate
moil favorably circurr.ftanced in every
ref peel, where the profits are stated to
have amounted, during the four years
95, ’96, ’97 and ’gß, to 13 per cent;
but they appear also to have declined
ever since ; in 18015 1802, 1803 and
1804,10 have been reduced to about
6 per cent, and in 1804, to about 1
per cent, and subsequently to have
fuffered a still further redu&ion,
In the course of their inveftigatiou
of the situation of the planter, your
committee thought it right to ascertain
whether it might not be in tneir
power, in many instances, to remedy
the evils of their lituation, by conver
ing their sugar estates to other more
profitable cultivation; but the c ' r *“
fence on that point (hews, that iuch a
conversion rauft be attended with so
great a facrifice oi capital, as to be
out of the question as a mcafuic of 10
With a view to the profpefl for the
future, thev have obtained a return
of the quantity of sugar at present tu
he We It- India docks; from which,
and from other evidence, it appears,
that the quantity now on hand is unu
sually great for the time of the year.
The crop of last year is also on the
pointef coming into the market.
It should not be omided further to
(late, that for many years past, the
i Hands have ulmoft entirely escaped
the natural calamities* (of hurricanes,
&c.) which have occafionaliy prove*
deft-ufclive to the property in thole
countries.
In investigating the causes of that
depression of the market, from whence
the whole of the diftrefs ori
ginates, ‘he firft objed vihich
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