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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 [No. 69.]