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y,] ?j to wit, general and admiral, ard to-morrow L utulerfiat;d a moti on is to be brought forward, to omit ihe words excellency and efq. The v.oi'd honourable, ulua.ly given to the senate, I undertl.md is alio to be omitted 'Jamary 22- We are extremely happy to have jt in our power to inform the public, that the South Amboy stage boat Polly, which was driven to sea on Tiiurfday the 26th of December last, 1 arrive i here veiterday afternoon : paiiengers ail well except one child. January 23. Extracts of a letter from London, to an Anglo-American merchant in this city. London, November 8, 1793. * Permit me to give you a fperimen of the times. Our patriotic lord mayor (fir James Sanderson) had lig nitied to the tavern keepers in Lon don, that ir they permitted the lock.y of the friends of the people tonfiem . ble in their hou:es, he should prevent their renewing their licences : for t.hefc and other important purpoles, he has been made receiver-general of the land fax for the comity of Middle lex, a snug place of Bocol. per an num. ‘ One cf the members of the society, in consequence of being thus fiuit out by the tavern-keepers, made an offer of his house and field, lituate on the Hackney road, for the focieiy to meet at (his name is Briellatt, a pump boier in Shoreditch) to choose deputies to attend the general meet ing in Scotland, then about to Lv held —the offer was accepted and he day appointed. The magillrates, as ufuai, were alarmed, and procured it to be given out that the tree of liberty was going to be planted in the Hackney fields—conllaMes were ordered om and an extra number made for the day. * The magillrates met early in tin morning, at a houle in the neighbour hood —-the so ’f*ty alio aflemhled at the place appointee!, bur furprized at the hubbub of conihblew, See. it was propoled that rite magillrates fliould lie invited (to witnels their feditionj-bv a deputation c.f members, and accordingly feme resp clable gen tlemen waited on them to request their company at the meeting. Lot O ! fad mifiake, to think their wor fl ips, surrounded as they were with all the paraphernalia of office, de crepid watchmen, drur-ken corltables ‘and thief-takers, would herd with the ‘ fwiuilh multitude no, they chose to remain where tg-e were, hoping their mighty wigs would frighten theie Jacobins, as thev are here termed, and prevent any hull nefs being done. However, to their great mortification, the bufmefs pro ceeded, the lociety deputed two per sons to attend the general alfimblv (which has fmee been held) and then peaceably retired. Mr. Briellatt, at vvhofc house they met, has been taken lap, and given bail for his appearance, for encouraging sedition. refpefling the planting of the tree of liberty, about 6coo per ons aflernbled •in Hackney fields; and in order to throw ail the odium of this meeting (if odium there be) on the difienters, the following diabolical stratagem was praclifed ; doctor Prieflly lives at Clapton ; his alfiflant, or afternoon preacher, a mr. Morris, in London. A person went to the doctor’s and in much haste informed him that he came from mr. Morris, who was suddenly taken ciangeroully ill, not expected to hve an hour, and begged to fee him before he died. Doctor Prieflly) lufpe£ted nothing, immediately set our, and run along the road as fall as he could. ‘ When became opnnfue the field yvherethe lociety wasalTembled, there was a cry set up— * here he is/ ‘ that’s him,’ ‘ there he goes,’ See. as though there was a wish fotnewhere to feta mob upon him; but, as John Bull had more sense than their wor fliips, he went on without any other uiolellation, and his supposed sick triend was very glad to fee him. ‘ Y\ hat may he God only knows : an awful cloud seems to be hanging over its. I ready fear, from the flops taken by miniUers on the one hand, anti the high church party on the other, that things will come to an alarming cribs with the dissenters, and then thole who now halt between two opinions, will wish they had exerciled their reason in time- A king dom divided against itlelf cannot Hand. 4 After what I have already ob served, 1 need not add, that we con tinue in the lame Hate of alarm (for the farce mold be kept up) as when you lefi England. Little or no trade —much diilrufl and general dilcou tent—fines and impril’onment for ledi tion you have heard of; but as we get more humanized, we are proceding to transportation for 7 and 14 years. Mv rent is 90 guineas per annum, and my parliamentary taxes last year were 251. 14s yd.— ward and paiilh’ taxes 211. 3s. yd. together 461. 18s. 2d. in a time of peace. Fifty millions L. the price which vve are doomed, by the folly of parties here, to bear for the funport of the war—hare they fay against fanatic- and madmen now. which has theflronger symptoms of lunacy ?’ PHILADELPHIA, January 12. A rner ham in London writes to ho corespondent here, that he was pi e feu t when a gentleman of the firtt I mercantile character Waited on lord Hawk l burv, on behalf of a confidera ] ble number of the London merchants. He told lord H. that he came to him for an explicit an! wer from govern - merit, a? to the liruation of public affairs between America and Eng land. That the merchants were alarmed at the rumour ot an expected war, and wdhed to hear from him the true flute of this queftion—bc caufe, if Inch aw event was to happen, they ought to be put on their guard, that proper Heps might in time be taken to protect rh ir diflant proper tv, and future engagements. ihe answer given-was, “ ¥ou may make yourfeive easy ; the government ha vie not the lead di jpofbion to go to war with America, nor has America any in ter elt or inclination to quarrel with us. While g neral Wafiiington is at the he and, and the friends to the federal government are the majority, we fhailhave no war with America, you may depend. If any irregula rities fiioultl happen on either fide, diLufiion and accommodation will take place.” Anew species of Have trade is now carried on at one of the principal ports of Kifpaniola; all rifoners taken in the commission ot acts ofhoflility, are lent down and told, by eftabiifhed factors, to the supercargoes of Spaniih vefieis,-which lie there for the ptir pofe of transporting them to South America. EUROPEAN POLITICS. The law of nations expounded for the use of the United Sates 3nd other neutral nations ; by the courts of London and Madrid. Ex trad of a convention agreed to be tween the kings of Spain and Great Britain, signed at Madrid on the 25th of May, and ratified on the’; sth of July. Art. 5. Their majeflies agree, as theprefent war mull interest all civi ized nations, to unite all their efforts in order to prevent thole pow er? who may not take an active part inlaid war, from giving, on account of their neutrality, iny protection dire&ly or indiredly, either upon die high leas or in the ports of France, to French commerce ; or any tiling which may belong to the subjects of that power. Ail military and naval (lores, wheat and other grain, fait provi hons and other, bound to France, Oiall be seized and condemned for the benefit of the captors, and their majeflies engage to take a : l otlvr mealuresin their power to injure the commerce of France, and bring them by ’hefe means to jull conditions of peat e. Flic above named powers engage to frame a reciprocal treaty of com titer.e, as loon as circumltances Uiall permit. Fl Duque de la Alcudia. St. Helen’s. 41 From the New Fork Diary. INSERTED ET PA ITICULAR DESIRE. CATO—No. 111. Many persons having doubted whether this country ever acceded to the principles ot the armed neu trality, and mr. JefFerfon having ab Jolutely denied it in his letter to mr. Genet, you will be plea fed to publilh the annexed extract from the journals of congress. dated sth of Qblober, 1790, and if doubts fliould Hill re mam, you may refer your readers to the commissions and irdlru&ions which afterwards illued in pursuance of this fob inn recognition of the principle? of the armed neutrality, and they “'ill then lament, with every genuine American, our eany departure from our own printings. 3thof Hi Joker — ln congress, ‘ Her imperial majefly ot all the Ist Has, attentive to the freedom of commerce and the rights of nation?, ■n her declaration to the bel'igerant and neutral powers, having propoled regulations Font ded upon principles of justice, equity and m deration, oi which their moll chriftian and catho ;c in ij’ (lie? and molt of the neutral a;r;t) ne nations have declared their approbation, congress, willing to ttfli •y th ir tegard to the tights of com merce and tli.ir refped for the sovereign who hath propoled, and the jiowers who have approved the laid regulations. ‘ Rtfoived, that the hoard of ad ’ruralty prepare and report inflrudi ons for the commanders of armed vef feis, comrniflioned by the United States, conform aby to the principles con te.ined in the cc oar at ion of the tmy refs of all the Raffias on the right of neutral vefieis ; that the miffiflers plenipoten tiary from the United States, if invited thereto, he, arid hereby are em powered refpebli vely to accede to Inch declaration as may be agreed upon by the congress expected to assemble in pursuance of this invitation of her imperial majefly. 4 Ordered, that copies cf the above resolutions be transmitted to the ref : peilive miniUers of the United States j at foreign courts and to the honoura ble the minilter plenipotentiary of France.’ N >w I appeal to every candid man, whether the United States did not ex plicitly adopt the principles of the armed neutrality, when they passed the above resolves and directed that ; inflrudions be framed for th charmed zffds, conformably thereto? which i inltructions were afterwards framed and agreed to, by congress, and ac companied every commission of any armed fitipor privateer as will he by turning over the journals of con gress; but as I have but a fe.v hours to devote to these essays from other avocations, I must refer this as I do many other things to the researches of my readers, contenting myfclf with advancing nothing but what is flriclly true, and with pointing out the means by which those who are less converf- nnt with public affairs may fi.risfy them (elves* And as tiiefe resolutions were ordered to be delivered to the rnmijhr cp Francs, I ask whether France had not reason to believe that the principles which we declared to be confident with jnjiice and equ ty and tlie rights @f commerce, were inch as we fliould therefore adhere to ? and whether the treaty between us on this fubjeel was any thing more than a so lemn and mutual relblution to abide by these just and equitable principles of the modern law of nations. CATO. RURAL CRITICISM. • A clergyman, who late ! y preached a fennori at a village in Kent, Eng land, observed in the course of -it, that the vain creatures of this world too olieti ftw things through falie optics. A farmer invited him to din ner, and after a glass or two had gone round, declared that lie had never heard a difcourie which gave him greater pleasure. There was only one error throughout (Lid the honest fellow'), what your reverence termed hop flicks, we call h p polls. SAVANNAH, February 19. Perhaps no part of the United States experiences lei’s benefit from - the poll-office eflab'ilhment than the Ibte of Georgia in general, and the city of Savannah in particular—For I'oiTie months pad, our nominal weekly poll has bee.ll converted into a real monthly one ; nay, at this moment, our corrclpondence with the feat of government is upwards of live weeks n arrear—so that we mny shortly ex pect to receive recent Philadelphia in elligence via the Weft Indies — with as much certainty, at lead, as through the channel of our own poll-office. It is suggested to the citizens at large, and to the merchants in parti cular, whether this fhameful neglecd does not call on them for a ffatement of theie facts to the pod-master-gene ral, and an application for the future prevention of similar grievances? * PO R T NEW S. ENTER El> INWAR D. Schoor.tr Venture , Pulm.ru, Cb irtcjlon CLEARED OUTWARD . Schooner Eliza, Hughes, Baltimore Sloop Greyboun!, Miter, Sunhury Dove, Rogers, Charts on CITY COUNCIL, FEBRUARY 18, 1794. P) ESOLVF.D, Th.it notice be given in the TV two next Gazette.?, that an election for seven aldermen to represent litis city, will take place at the Court-house, in Savannah, on Monday, the third day of March next, at t n o'clock in the forenoon ; of which all con cerned are to govern thtinWvcs accordingly. F.xtr iff from th minutes, Wm. NORM ENT, City Clerk. ISAAC LAROACHE &T THOMAS WILDER, 7/11 LOUS , FROM CHARLESTON, rA KF. tin’s method of informing their friends in particular, and the public in /eneral, that they have commenced itufinef*, three doors weft of major Brown’s coffee-houfe, on the Bay ; where al! orders they may he fa voured with, will be duly attended to—and they flatter themselves they will be able to give ample fatisfa&ion to all those who fliall encourage them in llitir line of bufmefs. Savannah, February 18, 1794. — -TO BE LE TANARUS, A DWELLING-HOUSE, on the Bay, with a garden and the neceflary out-offices. —Apply to the printer. Just landing and for file, ThU’ CARGO of the fehooner Betfcy, from • St. Euftatia, contiftin ■ of 20 barrels of excellent SUGAR, 6 Hogsheads of ditto. 24 Luncheons of third proof RtJM. Ann’v to ROBERT BOLTON. Savannah, Feb. 18,1794.