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miubt well claim the viftory, for, according to the Bulletins, they had to covend with no less than four divilions of the French army, comma tided by Bonaparte in per fori. In the course of Saturday evening, the following Note was circulated from the Go* vernrnent offices : “ Col. Kruler arrived at Kouingfburgh on the 3d of January, with dilpatches from Gen. Kaikreuth, and a Ruf fian Messenger followed the day after, with difpairhes from ! Gen. Kaminfkoy. Excepting a trifling affair on the Bth j December, in which a detach ment of French cavalry made an unfuccefsfnl attempt to cut off the Coflacks, which were polled in advance of Roraw, it does not appear that any err gagement has taken place, fob” fequerttto the 26th, The victo ry of the Ruffians on the 20th was decisive; its conftqtiences would probably have been more important, had not Gen. Benningfen been rest rail red in hi? pursuit of the enemy, by intelligence that the divisions of Ney and Angereaii had form ed a j unilion near Grodziec, and were advancing in his rear the approach ol night like wise contributed to the escape of the enemy. “ Upwards of seventy pieces of cannon taken from the ene my on the 2661, had on the goth in ft arrived at Oftrulen ka : leveral others were buried in the roads. The peasants cheerfully afiilted in their coir veyarre. “ Frtfh troops are daily joining the Ruffian army, which by the middle of Febru ary, will comprise 300,000 men between the Neimeti and the Viflula. j “ Gen. Tofftov commands j a corps ot 16,000 men at Sie ( lie ; Gen. jKoonaut is polled at 1 the little vtTftge of .Vrurtinkv, on the Onuilio, actofs w hich river re has eflabhfhed a bridge ; Gen. Tody con mands the advance of the left wini & 1 of the army -t Stolun; the, rear, j with Gen. Ode: man.. has fallen | hack upon the ft 1 one pobtion I of Koino ; and the other corps j of the army, under the orders of Prince Dolgorpufky, Gen. Simdolf,&c, occupy Wizua, ! B iliftock, Mazow, &c. Gen. j Buxhovden's divilion occupies ; NuvigrocijCliniki, Louiza,&c. j “ 1 he whole of the army is I thus concentrated within tire ! circuit ol a few miles, nctwah itanding the difliculty to pro vide provisions and forage ; and it is hente obvious that Gen; Kaminfkoy is determin ed to relume ofleniive operati ons the moment he is in a cop. diiion to do so. The Ruffian army is impatient to meet the j enemy—nothing can furpals I thesr enthuiiaim Sc confidence. Gen. Sitoff previous to the af fair at Fratv.gurkaw, reed at the head of his detachment, one ol j the French bulletins, contain ( ing Icon fie us reflect lotus on ; the RuiTian ai my, on which the ! iowJiers n tumultuous uirugna- | tiun, ext lairrted. ** Lead us v.n, : : and we will punish our caluu; j iiiator s.” “ A ftrcr.g Pmflian corps j has token pcftvkion ol li.t cie fiies of Nikoiadccn.” The French or. lion, an j ler Ney has f:!lcu back behind ! the JLribem.z : audi* corps cl ! a lit ut 3CO uit ii, which had j poiijcu bey on u O {Strode, was i iuitour.dtc! Dy Fiuluau ic, i giment at Deutsch E) lau, ana cut to pieces.” The information contained in this demi-official communi cation is extremely fati faoo ry. The pcfitions by the different corps of the Ruffian army fhtw, that the various affairs in which they have been engaged with the French since the latter pafled the Viffula, have impressed them w ith no very great epr>re henlions of the spirit or tatties of the latter. This report also deveiope: a material part of Bonaparte's plan on the 26th, and accounts for the rapid re treat of Benninglen upon Ro zaw. 11 fcetiis that two divi sions thole of Ney and Ber:*a- I done, (mentioned by miltake J AngereauJ were detached ft otr. 1 the left wing of the French, 1 for the ptirpofc of taking the ! Ruffians in 111 e tear. Had this j movement succeeded, ond that j it failed may be attributed to the badness of the roads anrl j the unfavorable (fate of the weather, very few, if any, of lien mngfen’s cot ps would have e leaped. We are not to look for any events of consequence for lb me time from Poland. The Ruffian armv would not be in I a fnuation, confident with :hc cautious plan upon which it ! has hifheito afcled, to resume offer)five operations until the middle of this month, nor will the French we think, be very ready, after the talie of Ruffian bravery and fkiil which they had at Pulttifk, to advance j much further than they have already done. 1 he uirrioft exertions con tinue to be used in the King’s Dock yards at Chatham,JPortf mouth,& Ply mouth in order to get ready, a fleet lor the Baltic. Sixteen of the line inofily old 74’s ate to be cut down aid fried for sea, with uialts of the rate of 74’s. Evglifh January Commercial Report. The woollen manufailures in the north and wefl of En gland ire nor considerably in’ jtsred by the recent events on the continent. ‘Fite home con jumption tncreafes; tb.e com mercial distribution of Biitifh goods in the Rail Indies is c very year extending; the an glo Americans take off, every year , greater quantities than be fore ; the trade of the Mediter ranean, the Levant and the Rta<,k jen, opens Hill new marts for the llritiflr woollens. 1 he tiade in YVeWh flannels is thought to be, at this time, one of the molt ptomtfing in which a mercantile man can hazard a {peculation. Jt is, for London, principally in the ha t\tls of one or two houics which have gained exceeding I) by it, even within a very few years. Such has been the general in cteafe of the -woollen trade ol this country in the Ipace of tout teen years, that the Easier icturtis 10 the jnllices at Pon tefract of the quantity of wool len nranufafcUne in the riding of Yorkfhiic in which it {lands, wet e. in 179, 190 332 pieces of Viand ctorh, and 150,666 pie ces of riai row cloth. In 1806.3 pieces of broad, and 165,837 pieces of narrow. Our information refpefling the ecu on manufactures is not flattei ing. i lie honie con fun. prion is immenfejbiit the ; sales for the french , Dmch, id German rnatkels are compaia lively nothing. The iron arid copper works of Great Britain continue fiou rtffijng. The manu r aCfurers of Birm ogham, & Sheffield have of late had large orders for South American market ft heir manufactures Hill find their way, also, to Paris and over the continent. Bv our poffeflion of Malta, a brisk trade, yielding quick re turns, is now carried to the ports of Laly. Malta is the em porium, the store Houle. From Malta we supply Leghorn, and other places under the power of the French. But the Errglilh goods are fold, even before they are landed, lor rea dy money ; and scarcely a pound s worth of 1’ tilh pro perty is any moment hazarded where the French might leize it. Pun. a Delphi a March I.*. Copy of rt letter from Mr. IVm. Cartwright to a gentleman in thin city eluted Carthagena De cember 15, 1806. Dear Sir —After taking mv leave of you, I shipped on board tire schooner Bee, caps. Huddel, | belonging to , i hound to St. Domingo, and from thence back to Philadelphia. Af ter we arrived at St. Domingo, and after laying there 5 months, the ship called the Leander,capt. Lewis, came in and chartered the schooner for fifty’ days ; un known to us where bound to. We applied to our captain for a discharge. lie replied he would not discharge us. We told him we would not go unless he would inform us where the schooner was going. The captain then hailed the ship Leander, and two boats came along side the Bee with men armed with pistols and cutlasses cut and slashed fore & aft decks—threw us in a boat, St took us on hoard the ship—kept us till ihe ship got ready’ to sad— sent as on board of the schooner | again and went to the Spanish I Main ; and there was taken; sentenced to hard labor in Car. lhagena for 8 years. I would be very glad if you I would receive my wages from | the twentieth of September to j the twentieth oi March, 25 dol ] lars a month, if I should ever j return, 1 shall recover heavy i damages for my sufferings I Theie are 19 fellow-sufferers | with me working every day at I digging,with a long chain fasten j ec! to each. There were i7 sen | ten-ced ; 10 hung. I I remain. Your much esteemed friend , WM. CARTWRIGHT. BALTIMORE. March 4. The British having recently taken the island of Curracoa, we have thought that manv of our readers would he gratified with ; a sho>t description of that island. 1 Accoidingly, we here present it: I Curracoa is situated in 12 de- I grees north lat. 10 leagues from i the continent of Terra Firma. It I is 30 miles long and 10 broad, j This island is not only barren, & j dependent on the rains for its ! water, but the harbor is natural | ly one of the worst in America ; ! yet the Dotcff have remedied 1 that defect ; they have upon this harbour one of the largest, and by far one of the most elegant and cleanly towns in , the West -1 Indies, ihe public buildings are numerous and handsome; and the magazines large and con venient, & well filled. All kinds of labor is there performed by engines, some of them so well contrived, that ships are at once lifted into the dock. ‘1 hough this island is natural.y barren, the industry of the Dutch has hio’t it to produce considerable quan„ tities cf tobacco and sugar , it has besides good salt works, for ! the pioduce of which there is a ! frisk tl niand from the British islands, and the colonies on the continent. But what renders this island of most adva tage to rhe Dutch, is the contraband trade which is carried on between ihe inhabitants and the Spaniards, and their harbor being the ren dezvous to all nations in time ot war. The Dutch ships from Ftp ope touch at this island for intelli gence or pilots, ancl then proceed j for the Spanish coast fer trade j which they force with a strong ! hair! ;it being very difficult for the Spanish guarda costas to take j these vessels, for they are not on- j ly stout ships, with a number of guns, hut manned with large j 1 crews of chosen seamen, deeply interested hi the safety of the vessel and the success of the voy age. They’ have each a share in the cargo, or the value propor tioned to the station of the owner supplied by the merchant upon credii and at prime cost. This animates them with uncommon courage and they fight bravely, because every man fights in de fence of his own property. Be sides this, there is a constant * iniercourse between this island and the Spanish continent. Curracoa has numerous ware houses, always full oi the commo dities of Europe and the Eaat- Indies, ‘( here are all sous ot woollen Sdincn cloths,laces, silks, ribbons, iron utensils, naval and military stores, brandv, the spices oi the Moluccas, and the calli? toes of India, white and painted. Hither the Dutch West-India, which is also their Afiican Com pany, annually bring three or iour cargoes of slaves; and to this mart the Spaniards them selves come in small vessels, and carry off not only the best of the negroes at a very high price, but great quantities of all the above sorts of goods ; and the seller has this advantage, that the re fuse of warehouses and mercer’s shops, with every thing that is grown unfashionable and unsale, able in Europe go off h -re ex tremely well ; every thing being j sufficiently recommended by its being European. I he Spaniards pay in gold and silver coined or in bars, cocoa, vanilla, Jesuit’s hark, cochineal, and other valua ble commodities. The trade of Curracoa, in i time of peace, is actually worth | 500,0001. to the Dutch, but in j time of war the profit is much I greater, lor then it becomes the j common emporium of ihe VVcst lndies.it aiiords a retreat to ships of all nations, and at the same time refuses to none of them i aims end ammunition to destroy one another. The intercourse with Spain being then interrupt ed, ihe Spanish colonies have j scarcely any other market from j whence they can be well supplied j with slaves or goods. The j French come here to buy the beef, pork, corn,flour and lumber which the English bring irom the continent of North-America, or ; which is exported from Ireland ; 1 so that whether in peace or in war, the trade of this island flou | rishes extremely. The trade of all the Dutch | American settlements was ori | ginaily carried on by the West lndia company alone ; at present the ships that go upon that trade pay two and a half per cent- for tneir licences; the company, however, reserve to themselves j the whole of the trade that is car , ried on between Africa and the American islands. CHARLESTON, April 4. £jr Mark the Villain ! ! ! SOME time in December last a man who calls himself Hardy Floyd came into Cheraw District (South Carolina) seeking an o verseei’s birth. Alter one or two unsucccsful applications in the neighborhood, he was employed by Messrs. Mitchell Lide to at tend to tueir L'n), in the capa- j ci’.y of an Overseer, they having j ! agreed to mal e a . f- , H | began with th- m e*,;,- ■ Irv, and contiuu* and v.iih ,1 ‘ 1 ici-m M 1 teen or iw<"iit\ ) I profession wasm.t W Ji". ■ mdostr y. He paid |-,i s: ,| r V to a young lady n| i H lie succeed,-u— he n, | lle remained wuh i„ r J trn ‘j ll V s I laughed at h.-r ur>s l j pecinig credulity, which lic.-fl i V i h implicit faith to iu s l,,gH S tales of lovt— told her j the sixth girl lie had ruined. 9 | that ihe would never 9 | after that day. In this aio n( ■ ! lound him true ; he dis?.;)p ej H I and has not since been ; ffiv duty of eve. V ii. t ini,lß in the community, to seek tl : daik, designing villain. 9 1 ihe voice of inju cd temfl innocence hum Sly uun-au I public to expel from society monster in human shape. lH aged father, whilst his ;thcH armsemhtace his fund tlc-poiH insulted daughter,asks l.a of his country. Shorked at fl unexpected misfortune tneufffl aionate and infirm mother, ,9 ing in the grave, demands rol button to iier child, bat vils that are heard of at a tintaul Irut seldom interest tnunkinH Had it not been for this, pahaH the tear of anguish had irnttricß led down the cheeks of m.tny I tlic se who have been drgtroyfl by this wretch. Watch 1 herein lor this man—stop his cTtrovi progress—make him answer ( fits deeds—btand him v.uhLia with foul dishonor W. Camden 28 th February 180 fjjijt’ The Piinteis in the and ferent States are rcqaes’.ed to i set t the above. W. Such aie the bit fled effei relulting from the Vaccine Cow Pock ItiGculaiioiijthat me city of Glalgow, in Set land (which contains as msi inhabitants as N. Yotk) du ing the last year 15 childrt only have died oi ihe fin pox. In the year 1797 u number was 234. Ihe following is a corre statement of the number Children who have died oft [mall pox in that city at neighborhood during the it 10 years, as extracted fi<> the yearly bills of mortality: Fears Died | Yam lf>< 1797 231 1302 104 1798 176 1804 ?> 1799 224 1804 1* 1800 IS9 1805 24 180 X lu7 1306 B ’ [New- York paper. We have it from good author tv that in a few day., ttie Prct dent will issue his Rrociamatio suspending the Non-lntportatti Law, until ai'tt r tße coumienc ment of the next session vl gress. A lex j ltd 1 in Export) 11 numiliii|—in r Chambers. Chatham Interior Court. Present his Honor JOHN H. iViOiihL. Wm. Robinson, ) ad sm Edward Quinn. UPON the petition ofWillw Robinson, st.uii g tlwt t |C confined in the jail of this coirn’ for debt, by process Irom Justices Court, that lie is iiM‘ j to pay his debts, or to g ive L ’ l! to answer the same, or to -’’pf' o himself during lus con ft ucutc 11 and praying to he admitted to ll benefit of the acts passed i" 1 ; 1 state for relief ol insolvent act ors, It is or dered, That 1101 “ * ! this apDlicatiou he publtslad ‘ one of the Savannah CaSvtt that tiie creditors.of the saH Aa Robinson may, on the 2d * 6 1 ‘( day in April next, before the J j tices of tlu- Inferior Court 0. county, at the court- hog e, slf ’ Cause, if any they have, v !1 . 1 l '| prayer of the said P k;t ‘ lc ‘ ,t; should not he granted. JOHN 11. MOREL. Sav. March J l. 5 ‘