Georgia express. (Athens, Ga.) 1808-1809, October 29, 1808, Image 3

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fls-f jT °.[ r j.Vf iich ! arty in America.” I* * , ,{ tf ]-rrcr from a mercantile I . .o' ; v Liverpool, fays—“ Amer- I ■ Vi fi is are allowed to difeharge Ifr ,a'-gits< reioad in R: S a -” A ( | r . f..fin Campbell, Indian A _r die Upper M ffiffippi, was £ t ,„.j jn a duel bv Mr. Red ford ( ,v furd, a Brititli agent, on the , ( .f Anguft io that terrory. Ic , J , c a?s that ar dinner, iMr. Camp j.' t i| flared feme alee radons he in t,,;c!t;ri to make in the management 0 f his .ig"n: y, fo as to pie vent a ppetition of rhe injuries the United Stares had fuftained from the British company. Crawford applied the le r n:a ks*to himfelf—a challenge vas tint and accepted—the parties met, and Mr.” Campbell was mor faiJv wounded. In him the United S ans have lofl an eocerprili g, ac t,yc, and ulcful officer iV. T. papir. The following is a copy of an in tercepted letter fr itn^general Du pont to the duke de Robpj >, com mander in chief ot the French ar ises m Spain : <£ Sionior General— *l have the honor to inform you, that the enemy has appeared before our po ll ion with ail his forces. They t ok pelt in front of Andujar, with from 15,000 to 18,oco men, and i.verai p eoes of artillery, 12 poun ds ; whiift a corps of 3.000 men jtff and the river below A uiujar, and took, a position in the Sierra, in cur rear. The firth provincial regi ment was fenc to attack them, and re pul fed them vt-goraufly. Ano ther corps of 5.000 or 6,000 men |liftater;ed our Hank. Two battal ions of the 4th leg on were fent to hold them in check, and had a very fevers abtion Vvch the enemy j bu*: nerwithfiaading the fuperiority of thtirnumbe s, the enemy could not fu ceed in breakmg our troops, or p t irg diem into confufion. The enemy aiffi marched another confi drrable b dy towards Merjibar, r.rar Bay It n. \ Fhe letter then goes on with feme deca Is of uriinterefting fie r m.lhcs which took place ; it con dudes in the following manner:] * £ Every thing announces that the enemy wi'll immed ately make a more feribus attack. We fndl re fill them in the meft determined It inner. *( \Ye are reduced to the greased dftrefs for want of prov fions -- The fiddlers arc compelled to fub fil upon the inoft difgufting and 1 athfotne food. “ I fupplicrue your excellency to hanen 10 find me rhe needfary re i dortements, to enable me to re fime cur operations againft the euemv. “ The interefts cf the emperor rnd rhe kir g of Spain require that we fiiould-fpeedily commence of ftnfive operations agfinft them. “ DUPON vr London, Augu(| 16. The accounts tr* m I .dia are fa tisfadlorv. When the fleet failed, the me ft perfedt tranquility pre . mailed in every part of the country. *1 he native powers, convinced of their inferiority, (hewed no rj'fpo fuion to contend agiiiifit Britifli do minion. Rj'.v long this calm is to c ondnu.% is, however, a matter of fyme doubt. I: will be leen from tie following extradl of a biat the French are endeavoring to fenew that fyftem to which all the duTurbance3 in India of Id: r years 3re to be attributed. If the F.ench tizans, once gain footing there, their intrigues will foon excite the native powers to make frefn efforts to re cover their former ftrength and in fluence <f Bombay , Feb. 1. ff It is faid that the king of per fit has ceded Omusand Lrombroom to the French, and that a (quadron, which left this the other dav, con fining of the Albion 74, two frigates, Royal Georg % Mornington, and Ternare, are gone to intercept the French armament going to take pofiu fiion. We hear a bo, a French general, and parcizans cf ail defcripdoiis, have arrived at Te heran, in Perfia, with a view of getting on to India. We have re ceived accounts from Calcutta, that Serampore was taken pofil fiion of and all the Dam fit fiiips in the river —altogether, a very laige proper- TEN DOLLAR3~REWARDT . ILL be pa’d to anv perfon for apprehending JOHN WYNN, who deferred from my company of Artdltruls, on the 14th in ft. He is a native of Georgia, five feet fi,c inches hig K , thirty-four years of age, has grey eyes, fair hair, fair complexion—by occupation a Tay lor.—Whoever will fecurc the faid WYNN in jail, or deliver him to any cemmiflUned officer in the a> mies of the U. S. fhall receive the above reward, and their travelling expences borne tathe place of con fi itmenr or delivery. ADDISONB. ARMISTEAD. Capt. U S. ArtilUrifis , Commanding . Caution to tbs Public . Whereas on rhe firfi: day of Au~ gnft, tBoB, the fubferiber purchaf ed of John Sapp, of Morgan coun ty, a-rafter lar.d in rhe fifteenth diftricl, and number 245, Baldwin (now Morgan) county, for which the fubferiber, as a fecurity for the payment for faid trafl of land, gave the faid Sapp three Notes ot hand, all dated on the firft: day of Augutb 18c8, and payable, as near as the fubferiber can recoiled:, at the fol lowing times :—One note for two hundred dollars payable on the firft of November, 1808—another for one hundred dollars payable on the fi ft of February, 1809 —the other three hundred dollars, payable on the 251 bof December, 1810.— and as a fecurity Hr the titles to faid land, the fubfer ber took a bond cf the (aid Sapp, in the peral fum of one thousand dollars, wnich bond is either Eft or mid lid, and the faid Sapp now refufes either to make titles, or give another bond to le cure the titles, and is either moved or about to move to the country. All perfens are hereby forwarned not to trade for or take an alignment of faid notes, as the fubferiber is determined not to pay them until he gets titles ro the faid land, or good and fufficient fecurity for titles: SAMUEL WHITEHEAD. DOCTOR BOSWELL, H AVING removed to this pluce 9 where he intends pra&tceing Medi cine in the various branches of his profi fiion. He hopes from his af -11 duo us attention to (hare a liberal patronage. —He has on hand aia'ge afibrrncct of DRUGS AND PATENT medicine s. \Thcde having need of his . pro f fervices may find him at Cap*. E^Uy’s. Athens> CCsbcr 3, 180 3, GEORGIA EXPRESS. ATHENS , OCTOBER 29. Appointments by the Pref, dent. Wade Hampton, of South-Ca rohna, Colonel of Lig#t Dragoors. John C. Boyd, Colonel of the 4th Reg’ment oflnfanrry. Joseph Constant, of New- York, Lr. Colontl of the 6ch Re giment of Infantry. Electus Backus, of N. York, Major ot the Lighc Dragoons. - D.(patches have, we underftand, been received by our government from Mr. Pinckney as la*e as the 6;h of Sept. Ac that time our af fairs with England wore nearly the fame alpedt as on the departure of the Sr. Michael. A definitive anf- w r er was foon expected from the Britdh government to the propofi tion made on our part to lufpend the embargo fo far ns they refpetft u<. tr.e Hope was daily locked for in England on her return from France, fne may he foon expe&ed with tne anfwer. There is, howe ver, one circumftance, that may produce fome doubt of an early ac corom ‘dation, to wic : the recent appearance of a pamphler, artr.but ed to a mimftenal member of par liament, in which it is maintained to be the interclt of Great Britain fiill to continue her orders, notwsth llanding France fhould repeal her decrees. Nat. Intel. New-Y irk, OT. 15. Very Late London News. Laft evtnv g arrived at this port the Br’nfh Packet Lord Cntfier field, Gibbon, in the remaikable fitort paffige of 31 days from Fal mouth, va 11 alii -x, ia 7 days from the latter place. Mr. Bethune left London on the 7‘h or September, and is the bearer of difpa ches from Mr. Pinckney, our mimfter at the court of St. James’, to the Secretary of State. We Earn verbally by the packet, that our affairs with Grrat Biioin were likely be amicably fettled, and in a fhort tune —and that a French Senatus Conlultum had pe petitioned the Emperor Bonaparte to withdraw his troops from Spam, and leave the kingdom to the Pat riots. Nashville, ( fen.) Aug. 23. Yazoo Lands. — Lme gentle rr.en lately from the Mufcle Shoals, wt learn that the corrupt (pecula tors of the Georgia wdtern lands, known by the above name, are in veigling many hontft men into their fnarcs; and thofe (peculators in particular, who own Cox’s pretend ed purchafe. Thele laft have made a fettlement (in violation of the laws of the United States) ne2r the Mufcle Shoals, of about 400 fami lies, who have opened firlds, bu It houfes, end rfLmed the rugns of government in.o their own hands ; appoin ed civil and military eff ers, and have now began to fell fome tradts of land for iour dollais per acre. If anv have adventured innocent ly, we fhall pity their fate, ualefii they return to their country, for we are confident it can be no great while before government will hear of th s audacious act, and the almoft certain ccnfiquence will be, that the adventurers will be ruined. tain at bt. Pierre’s, MirciH’que, eta ted the 13th ulr. fa;, s, <c Owing to fo many arrivals here lately, pro duce has riftn at Lift 50 per cer.r. Upwards of 70 American vefills are now in the ports of this ifi ind, and more are daily coming in, fb that the inhabitants do not believe there is an embargo in the United States. Four loaded vcfills have arrived within a few days j and three days ago a large fchooner came in with a full cargo of provi fi rs and flour, which were cbl’ged to be ftnrtd, there being no demand for theie articles, on account of the numerous arrivals from the Eng hlh ifiands.”— N. Y. paper. It is faid that Don Carlos, fon of Charles IV. and brother to Ferdi nand, and one of the Spanifh royal captives in France, latelv attempted to make his efiape. He was pur ified, overtaken and brought back to Valency, and now all the cap tives are more tlridUy guarded. Ib. North Carolina Election for Repre sentatives to Congrefs. Nathaniel Macon, Willis Alfton, jr. Richard Stanford, John Hol land, Archibald M‘Bride, Jofcpb Peafjn , John Stanley , T homas Ken nan, Lemuel Sawyer, Janie Coch ran and William Kenedy. Thofe in Italicks are fideralifls. Pickering. —Where is Pickering ? Difownedby his country —neglect- ed and unnoticed by the fiction which he animated, 16 ! he finks, 1 ke V/oolfey , cc Weary and old with fervice, to the mercy Of the rude ftream that mud forev er hide him. American Mercury. The mrj ritv for Snyder, at this file of the Alleghany —-is calculated at 15,000 — Beyond the mountains— 4500 Total 20,000. Hurra for M nj. Jack fon and h"s <( overwhelming majority .”— Aurora. Plymouth , (Eng.) Sept. 8. Ac counts are juft received of the f*jr~ render of tne whole of the French army at Lifbon, andcf rhe Ruffian fl.et. The por s cf Holland open, and we have many arriva’s the paft week, with butter, chtefi-, geneva, Iti Jes, and various o:htr ar ticles. Gglethirpe county , October 20, 1808. GEORGIA> Jackfon county. By Edward A Jams, Clerk of the Court of Ordinary for faid county. Wheras William Shork'ey ap plies for letters ©f adminiftration or the Glare of Fergus Cavin, !a.e of laid county deceaftd. Thefe are therefore to cite and ad raonifh all andftngular the kindred and creditors cf jaid deceafed , to be and appear at my office, within the lime preferibed by lazv, to fhew crufe (if any) why faid letters fhould not be granted. Given under my hand this 18 th day of Ottobcr, 1808. EDWARD ADAMS , C. C. O. CAUTION. ALL perfons are hereby for warned from trading for a certain prom:ftfiry nnte, for the (urn rf five hundred and ftventy-three dol lars, payable to John M'Carthne ‘ on or about the 15 th of September laft j as he did not a <sl agreeable u ccntraft I am determined not to pay it. JAME3 PALMER.