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Vol. I.) ATHENS, GEORGIA : PRINTED BY M'DONNELL & HARRIS. SATURDAY, MARCH iS, i3o s . TERMS OF THS GEORGIA EXPRESS. * * i. IT will be printed weekly, at three .dollars per annum; one half to be paid in advance, the remainder at the expiration of fix months. i. Advertifements will becharn:- ed at the rate of fixty-two and a halt cents per fquare for the firfl infcrtion, and fifty cents for each continuation. 3. No papers will be discontinu ed without a notice to that effeit; nor then if in arrears. All letters dire&ed to the Editors mud be poll paid. The following Gentlemen tire au&v fixed to receive Suhferipiims for tils draper :— Clarks hor o' —Pod - Made r. Jcferfon —Maj. Edwin L. Harris. Watkinfviile —E. B. Jenkins, efq. and Mr. Edward Bond. Lexington —Pod Maker, & Cap:. Watkins, Oglethorpe-—Mr, Samuel Shields, and William Lumpkins, Efq. Walnut Grove —Mr. Lee Atkins. Goof -pond—Mr. H. T. Woody. Greenesboro ’ —Capr. T. Dawfon. Sparta —Doctor W. Terrell. Warrenton— Poft- Mader. Pvwelton —rPofc-Mader. r Mil ledge v i lie— T homes Mo unger and James Bozeman, Efqrs. Edtonton —Chriflopher B. Strong, £fq>. , ~\ filbert on -Col. Wm. Chi Horn. • Petersburg —Alex. Pope, Efq. 6c Doft. Watkins. Vienna —S. Ik Shields, Efq. Wilkes —David Terrell, ‘Efq. Sc DoCfor • B'hh, : Lincoln —Captain N. Allen, and Capt. John Hughes. LouifoUk—Nl e£T. Day 6c Whee ler. Augufir —J. S. Walker, Efq. ti Doctor Smelt. Waynesboro’- —Col. John Davies, . Sanderjvitle —Mr. Wm. M‘Mur ray. Savannah—Mr. H. H. Tviocn ger, and Mr. A. W. Scribner. FOREIGN NEWS, From London papers of December so received at New-Fork, A cabinet council was.held ye fi le rd ay, and did not break up till 7 in the evening; after which Mr. Hunter, the rnefienger, was order ed to proceed to Spain with dif patches. .It is faid, the fu-bjeft was the fituadon of the Britifh army.- Xc is dated, the Bri'tifh forces are to be Rationed in Portugal. Trans ports have been ordered to Corun na and Vigo. The American Blip Margaret and cargo, has been condemned at Copenhagen and fold for the benefit of the captors. A Sunday paper fays, fome mi jiiflerial changes are fpoken of.— The duke of Portland, Mr. Can ning, and lord Mulgrave, it is faid, are to retire. Lord Chatham, it is added, is to be removed to the treafury, & lord Melville has been citered a feat in the cabinet. GEORGIA EXP RfE S S.’ V MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL ES INCREASED. Mr.- Shaw, the mefikngrr, left London the* 10th of December, with difpatches for Paris. Accounts from Sweden were un favorable Cnee the rupture of the armiftice. The Ruffians pufhed forward with fuch overwhelming fuperiority of force, that ail the gallant efforts of the Swedes have been fruitlefs. >■ Dutch letters received in Eng land ftate, on the .authority of ac counts from Paris, that the anfwer of the Bntifh government to the overtures from France and Ruflia, was very detailed; and very favora ble, and that at Paris, it was gene rally fuppofed, a peace Would ihort ly be concluded. A London pa per fays, <( we cannot agree with the Parifian quidnunce, as to the probable refult of the negociation.’ Arulria ffiii continues her milita ry prepaiation. A Ruffian Ukafie notifies to the merchants of St. Peteriburgh, that after the firft of January, ISO 9, no flips llia 11 be fuff bred to enter or clear from the Ruffian ports. Private letters from Holland (late, that Bonaparte has ordered a relaxation to take place in the re gulations enjoined by his Milan decree, respecting neutrals. . By the decree alluded to, it was order ed that all neutrals which had touched at a Britifd port, or fob mitted to be fie arched by aßdiifh cruifer, fliould be confiscated on entering a French y>or‘, or <-rrw. demned as legal prizes if captur ed by a French armed veffel. It is now ordered, t;>nt neutrals Full be’ admitted into : French ports, tho 5 they have been Larched by a Bri tißi cruifer, provided they have not touched at a Briiifh port.- Bonaparte, by relaxing in the Mi., lan decree; probably expefts that the American government will be induced to remove its embargo, fo far at ksft as regards vdfds bound to France. DATES T FO R EIGN NEWS . CHARLESTON, February aB. By the Brififfi brig Nelfon, arri ved laft evening from Liverpool, the editors of the Times have been favored with London papers to the evening of the 17 th of December. London, Dec. 17. Capitulation of Mddifd—Entrance of the French army into that city. By the flag of truce which re turned hfl: evening to Dover, with, Mr. Shaw, the meffengsr on board, we have received Paris papers to :hs 15th inflant. Their contents are ot great importance. The city of Madrid has capitulated, the French troops entered on the 4th inft. at noon, This intelligence is dated from the French camp at Madrid, and is officially announced in the Moniteurs of the 13th and 14th. So far back as Thurfday, the Bth inflant, we announced, the. advance of a French corps of 3cco men to Somofierra, a town about 40 miles north of Madrid. For this information we had official in telligence. It was announced in a proclamation, addreffed by the Su preme Junta ro the people of Spain, and particularly thofe of Madrid, recommending the conduit which they Ought to obferve under thefe circum(lances. This proclamation was ci.ved from the royal palace of Atai.ju!or’ the 2 rff uit. and con fequt!*” ve may prefume that the firff appe.imoce of the enemy at So mofierra 1 ■> k place about the ifth or 19th. What became of th's corps is not mentioned. It was probably pufiied rapidly forward* (or the ptirpofe of alarming the towntry, a manoevre - often pradlifed by the 1* rench with fuccefs. If fuch was the cafe, it probably retreated as far as it advanced. That a large portion of the enemy had not ad vanced io far at that date, we may prefume, as the defeat of the force under Cailanos upon the Ebro did not take place until the 23d. The details of the approach of the French to Madrid are contained in the 13th bulletin, dated st. Martin, the id inft. It dates, that oh the 30th ult. the t duke of Bclkmo (marfhal Yidtor) arrived at Sopiofierra with a corps of -13,000 men, when he found the Spaniards fin a flrong poff, defended, by 16 pieces of cannon. Here, however, as in the battle of Tucieia, the French deri ved great advantage from > their Cavairy. A - charge made by the Eolith light horfe decided the day, and the Spaniards fufUiried a total . de.fasJ*. Bo.sr.p'Lpti’* m tH* folH**- 7 ing day, the ift. of-December, re moved his head-quarters to Sc.Aii guffin, and'on the next to Sc. Mar tin,on which day the duke oflftria, with his-cavalry, took pofTiffion’ of the heights which command Mad- : rid, and die infantry ■ were expected to, arrive on the 3d. Here the 13th bulletin ends; bin, a? we have already Traced, the Moniteurs add, that the town capitu- tted, and v/as entered by the French on the 4 r h. The proclamation of the fu preme junta, to which we have al luded, farther Rated, chat the polls of Guadarrama and Efcurial, be tween Somofierra and Madrid, were ilrongly fortified and would make a foirnidable refinance. As the 13th bulletin, however, dpes not notice any a&ion fubfequent to that of So rhofierra, it is probable the French did not advance on that line, bet proceeded foutheafe, in a circuitous route by Eutrifgo. Of the Span ifii force at Guadarrama and Sfcu ria! there is no notice, ncr are the Engllfn armies once mentioned. We have extracted from the Moniteurs an article from Copen hagen, which Rates that Mr. Adair has failed in his miifion to the fub lime porte. Globe Office , 2 o’clock, Mr. Shaw arrived in town this morning from France. . The two ladies, nieces of Talleyrand, who failed from Dover with the foreign meffengers, arrived in Paris on Monday iaft. It was then known in that city, that the French army was at Madrid, but it caufitd no fen fation, being confidered a matter of courfe. Mr. Shaw reached Pans on Tuefday, and delivered his difpatcli cs to Cham party, the French Min iffer for foreign affairs, who re ceived him with great politenefs, and gave orders that every pofiible attention fhould be paid to him.—* He was entertained in the miniffer’s houfe until Wednefday, when he left Paris with the anfwer of his difp3tchcs. ;i >. ■ ;• An E.nglifh officer arrived this morning with difpatches from armies, dated the 7th. They were then in high fpirits. f * They had not heard of the arrival of the French at Madrid. It was under flood, on the contrary, - that Bona parte had not followed up the vic tery of Tcdela with his ufual ener gy. He reprefents the Spaniards as greatly-in wantof-cavalry, SHERIFF'S SALE. •• H WILL BE FOLD, At the Court-IToufe in Clark on the Firji Tuefday in April next, between the ufual hours of ten and three o'clock, the following proper ty, viz : -■ * : ONE likely negro wcm?.ri nam ed Tabby, levied on as the proper ty of Obediah Echols to fatisfy an execution in brhalf of the State vs. faid Echols, ar. CoUciTor of Taxes £>r the county of Clark for tho year 1807—the property pointed out by “Milner Echols, one of the fecuricies of the faid Obediah E chok. - i ALSO, . One lot and improvements In the Town of WatkinfvUlr, levied on nr> the property of James Morgan to fatisfy two execution*! in favor of Thomas Farrar —the faid executi ons levied by Richard Dickens* conflable, and “etured to me. • ALSO, Fifty acres of land lying and be ing in the county of Clark on the Oconee river, joining Hudfon and ethers, originally granted to Pat rick—-levied on as the property o£ John Carden, to fatisfy two execu tions in favor of Grecnfberry Rey nolds—levied on by Ilaac Middle-* brooks, conflable, and returned ta me. Conditions Cafn. JOHN SELMAN, Sheriff, March 4, t3c>9. t-o M ym imiihiw i ■-^ , i SHERIFF'S SALE* Onthe fir ft Tuefday in April itcxi 3 cl the Court-Firmfe in Jackfon County., between the u,fual hours, will be fold , tbs following property, viz: One negro woman named Eady and Rhody her daughter, levied c.i as the .property of Mtcajah Wfih amfon, deceafed, to fatisfy fundry executions again# laid Will in favor of Hugh M‘Donald, PI - vey and Weatherfpoon—Hphft : - perty pointed out by Capt. J -hi Hanfon who fays he has the con* troul of one of the executions. Conditions Cafh. WM. POTTS* Sheriff, March 4, 1809. (No. 43.