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surveys within the time limited, he is cm powered to declare his appointment vacant, and fill the lame. The Diflrhfl Surveyors are ro tafee an oath faithfully to dlf j charge the duties required of then), which is to be adminifter cd by the Surveyor General j and the chain-carriers are to rake an oath accurately to mea sure all lines on which rhey may be employed 1 , with as little de viation from the courses point ed out ro them by the Surveyors as po fable, and to give a true account of the fame which oath is to be adminillertd by the Diftri6l Surveyors. No furvevs or grants for land in the aforefaid territory are to be admitted to a jury as evi dence of ii Je to the lands there in, except those obtained by virtue and under the authority of the afore-recited a£L Persons againfl whole names lots of land may be drawn, are to receive grants for the fame, on paying into the Treasury of this Hate, fix dollars per hun dred aert-s 3 but if any person entitled to any Jot of land as a forefaid, shall fail to pay th.-t liim and take out a grant for the fame, within twelve months from the day the drawing of the lottery is completed, then such lot fliall revert to, and be veiled in the (late, and appropriated for the redemption of the pub lic debt. Returns of persons entitled to draws as afortfaid, made con trary to the true intent & mean j ing of the afore-recited a<sl, are declared to be fraudulent; and all grants which, may be issued in consequence of draws made in the contemplated lot tery, on any fraudulent return, are declared to be null and void, and the land so granted is to revert to, and become the pro perty of the flare. Now therefore, the Jufiices of the Inferior Courts of the refpedtive counties—-the per sons to be appointed to make out the alphabetical lifts aforefaid —and all persons entitled to draws in the contemplated lot tery under the afore-recired a£t, are called upon and required to comply with the requifuions thereof. Given under my hand, and the Great Seal cf the State, at the State -Iloufe in Lo ui s -, e, this twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of tnr Lord, one theufand eight hundred and fix, and of the Independence of the United States cf America, the thir tieth. JOHN MILLEDGE. By the Governor, 11 cr : Marr. uR v, Secretary of the State. LIVERPOOL, May 14. Paris papers to the 4 r h, and Dutch Gazettes to the y h hut. have reached us. The mouths of the Catraro are lull occupied by the RufTi ans, anu the moft active prepa larions are making (or an at tack on that important post by the f rench. There is an army at present in Dalmatia, which is every dav reinforced bv de tachments lent f.uni the Vene- tian territories. Venice Dq Ve denuded of its gar hm. 1 < fort efs of Gar-ta fill nolus oi t. Letters fiom N pbs ita e, tl a ; the exuaordiiarv courier who carried the Senatus Confut'd, ap pointing prince Joftph k ng of the Two Sicilies, found that | prince in Calabr a on the 12th uit. The news'was received at Naples with extraordinary joy. A defeent upon Sicily is certain ly meditated and will in a!i pio bability bt fhorrlv attempted.— j A convention has been condud -1 td between France and Austria, by which 40,000 rntn are to be allowed a paffige thro’ the Frioul into Dalmatia* Tiiis convention, which is a con ft-- quence of the occupation of Cattaro by the Ruffians, has been officially communicated to the Ruffian Ambassador. The Moniteur of the ad, af ter announcing a levee at St. Cloud for the following day, has the following notice : “ The p- ffi fiion of the mouths of (he Cattaro, by the Ruffians, having retarded the return of the Grand army, the great feftival appointed for the month of May is ncceffanly poflponed until tiie abfcnce cf the Grand at my is no longer requifitc. We think, however, that this delay cannot well con tinue longer.than fix weeks.” The unfortuna e French ad miral Villeneuve, who lately left this country, put an end to his ex'fltnce on the night of the 22d ulr. at the hotel at Lennes ; his death is much regretted ; he was buried with military honors. Dispatches were certainly re ceived on rhurfday from the French government at the fo reign office. It was upon that communication that the cabinet council, which met on Friday, held its deliberations. An ans wer was, we underftapd, lent off on Saturday night. Without pretending to any knowledge of the substance of the dispatches so often interchanged, we are enabled to (late that it is deter mined no further Bags of truce lfiall be employed on either fide. This is as it (hould be ; a pre caution highly honorable to the judgment of the minifteis. *OOC — NASSAU, (\ T . p.) June ay. Captain Jackson, of the brig Martha, yellerday len’night, fell in with an American brig from Martinique, bound to Philadel phia, which he went on board of and learned that Jerome Bona parte had arrived at Martinique, in the Foudroyant, 84 guns, having parted with the red of the Iquadron in a gale—the A meiican captain added, that rear admiral Cochrane was blockad ing the Foudroyant when he failed.—lt was also dated that a French iquadron was expect ed at Barbadoes, and that feve rzl cf our {hips had been order ed there. ■ ■II !■ I NEW YORK, June 25. To the Edit or of the New - York Commercial Ad vert l r. Sir, The enterprise cf General Miranda in my ship L ander, aving excited confiderabi? in- I t.:cit and a tention in die pub’ lie mfiid, which has for fume time pad been deceived by va rious ridiculous and unfounded rumours, I think it proper to give publicity ro the following < w x ’ ract of a letter, w hich I have just r ce ved from a gentleman of rffpedtab lity on board the I.eander, ihi co reftaefs of which may be rcled on. SAMUEL G. OGDEN. Ex trail of a letter dated Grenada, May 27, 1806, from a gentle man on hoard the Leander, lo Samuel G. Ogden. “ We iefc JdCquemel on the 27J1 of March, arrived a: the illa.bd of Atuba on the q:!i of April, where, after taking in fufficient water, we failed on the 15 h April, and being off the Marne on the 27th near Porto Cavello, we -fell in v/ich a Span ifn brig of 20 guns, and a fchoo net of 16 guns, bv both of wnich we were attacked, and had a:i action of half an hour, but no apparent damage done on either fide ; however, during the corned we were so unfortu nate as to lose two schooners we had chartered at Jacquemel, on beard of which ve fir Is were a bouc 60 men. —This circum france was occasioned by thole Ichooners falling to the leeward and our not being able to fepe rate the brig from the schooner, in which case we certainly should have Caved our little convoy -, however to remedy this evil, we immediately decerm ned to go to Trinidad, to obtain such information and afiiftance as the Britifii might be difpufed to afford us. <( On our wav we fortunately fell in with the Britifii fi >op of war Lilly, Capt Campbell, who received us wfih much cordial ity, and informed us, it was his particular inftruflions to serve us, at the fame time advising us to put into Grenada, as the Go vernor of the ifhnu had fume particular communication to make to Gen. Miranda. We h ive already received the Go vernor’s afiurunce of th* rnoft: prompt co-operation. We shall probably take up one or two 1 days at leafr, in making the rfe cefiary arrangements here, and (laall then proceed to Trinidad, (in company with the Lilly {loop cl war) where, we und> r i Band, the Governor of that Bl and will aifo give us every af fiuan.ee that is necessary. j <c The Jason frigate is now I on the coafi with a number of j volunteers on hoard ; this {hip is commanded by captain Coch rane, who, we undt rftand from the bed authority, ffs particu lar inffruflions to protect and forward our enterpr ze. “ I have now the happiness to observe that the new turn to our operations has given much animation ro all friends on board the Leandcr, ar and I finer rely hope my next will inform you that our glorious enterprise i* fully aceompl. lfied.” LOUISVILLE, (ken)June 11. Extra A of a letter from a Gentle man in St. Louis, to his friend in this place, dated, 27 th May, 1806. Toe peop’e of th s place are much alarmed ar the hoft.le pro I cecJmgt- of the I.idu is finet tiie troops lcfr tins ; the iffsow ing is a fpecirhen of fome of their arc conduct, .A fe*v days since fome Ki< kapoo Indians came her and drank rather too much whifke-y—one of them went through the town arid chreatned to kill fcveral women and children, and at length at tacked Judge Meggs and struck at his head wuh a tomahawk, which was turned off by his hat. Meggs seized the Indian bv the hand that held the tomahawk—. the Indian reached round his other hand and drew his knife half out of the scabbard. At this moment a young man by th” name of Hammond, drew a pifiol and Jh t the Indian thro* the back -, but lie did not ap pear to mind it muc.h, and was, apparently more reiolute and ainb tious to kill Col. Meggs. Hammond law this and drew his dirk and stabbed the Indian • twice —he run about two hun dred yards and fell dead. Inis circumitance has canted great difiurbance among the Indians. Mr. Hammond will liave to (land his trial : but the general opinion is that he was very jufiinable in killing the Indian. Four or five Indian priloners are in jail for killing white people. ——-.00 c— — NORFOLK, sane 30. This morning arrived the brig Wheeler, Capeam B ftbm, in 44 days from Liverpool.—• Cap*. B. has favored us with London papers from the \i\ to the Inh of May, and from our mercantile friends we have re ceived others of cotemporane ous dates. Tbefe papers we are sorry to oblerve, contain nothing new or important, such articles as appeared worthy of notice, will be found in this day’s paper. The trial of Lord Melville v/as pregrefiing, and w'as at tended b\ the nvYc diftringuifii ed on this occasion, or rather applicable to similar occasions, ir is not permitted to publish the proceedings of the Court. The important fubjecls be fore parliament are, the Slave Limitation Bill, Defence Bill, Os American Intercourse Bill ; —- (ketches of the De bates on thele measures will be given in sub sequent papers. The latter bill was tea l a lecond time in the l loffe of Peers on the 6r.h of May, and ordered to be com mitted on the 8 th. In the courle of debate the Duke ofMontrofe obierved that he wifiled the b. 1! to be post pone J, as it waft certain that negociations for a more cl'ffe and intimate con nex on with the United States was then depending. Lord Hawk (bury opposed the bill, as he wifiied to know what was to be giV'-n by America for con-* c fiions in her favor, and which he hoped would be found in the refijlc of the depending negoci a-101 s—lt does not appear that our prohibitory bill had beer, received. We have given our files a careful examination, and do noty find that any American vefiels have been lately lent inco the Britiin ports, • As the papers which we have “ received are fii.nc as co a rup-