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■ Change Minis I ru,
duke of Portland who. at
Hijiajesjv’* command, L>s un-
Btiiken to f° rm a p;v :i >l min i
-; on , continues or ; spied in
K important, and wa incline
Hhink, arc! tons arrangement.
Hj Hardwicke yesterday at
■ded his majesty at Windsor;
■in the evening a meeting of
■ new cabinet look plane at
■lingtoti lion *e, to receive the
Hher communication of the
H a | pleasure.
■ has been stremp'ed to re-
Hcile the discordant feelings
H n rds Sidmouth and Melville;
Hive understand lord Eldon,
■communicating to the king,
■ difficulty'which occurred on
Hlteaci,enquired ifhis majesty
H dt-si rocs that lord Sidmouth
Hold continue in the cabinet—
He replv is stated to have b-en,
Hi, a matter of perfect indill.i-
H- to me.” We have reason
■believe that the duke of Port”
Hi ha*, in consequence, made
■ election of lord fvs elville, and
Ht the admiralty is again to
■ve the benefit of his lordships
Hive and brilliant administrati
■The prince bad a meeting of
■ friends yesterday at Cal lion
Hme; and it was afterwards
Hnoured, ‘bat loid Moira and
■r. Sheridan were to retain
Hir present offices. We should
BoSct at the circumstance; but
H believe it otherwise, h that
■total change is to take place.
■A dissolution of Parliament,
■tuppestd, will he the unavoid
■!e consequence of this a>-a.
■re. Lord Sidmouth it is re*
■rted, can influence two or
■fee and twenty rotes; and with
■is accession, the new ministry
H>uid have considered them*
■lves sufficiently strong, with*
lit the necessity of a dissoluti”
■; while in opposition, their ut
lost powers could not muster
■ty voices. Their arguments
Ell doubtless acquite infinite
Irce and acumen in their deh-
Iry from the treasury bench; but
|e still think t.iat, without dis
■ion in the late administration,
Htr successors must speedily
Real to the sufliagea or the
Hople.
Ilhe new Ministry is, we he
lve, settled in all its details,
Ebject of course to the approba
lon of his majesty. The out
fit of it was yesterday submit*
Id to him, and on Wednesday
I pleasure will be declared on
Be subjecr. Several lists are in
Irculation of the new Admim
iraiion. The following is the
lost probable, although it is
pubtless inaccurate.
Ilhe duke of Poitland, idist
Bid of the Treasury.
I Lord Hawkesbury, Secretary’
It the Foreign department.
jLcrd Hardwicke* Secretary’ lor
iHtonie department.
Lord Castlereagh, Secretary
irthe War department.
Lord Melville, first lord of the
Admiralty.
iMr. Peroival, Chancellor cf
Je Exchequer.
Lord Eltion, lord chancellor.
Lord Camden, President of
“* Council.
Lord Chatham, Privy Seal.
Lord Mulgrave, Ordinance.
/Mr. Canning, Treasurer of the
y’avy.
Mr. Rose and Mr. Iluekisson,
Luke of Montrose snd Lord
Westmoreland, situations in the
lou sthold.
Marquises of Stafford, or A
trcoin, Lord Lieutenant of
reland.
Mr. Forster, Chancellor of the
nsh Ejxchequer.
Lords Limerick, Dartmouth,
Lde.-dale. Glenberve, and Pcl
lai” Messrs. Long, S. Bourne,
n I most of the members of the
itl Administrauon, are to have
in the new ministry,
A French iquadron, con
ifttng of three iaii of the line
11 U frtgate, which, for I’ome
1;!le j had been lying in the
lli G/atd hit; hour of Bicfi,
■ ready for tea, appears, by let*-
I ter: which reached yes-
I lerday f*om Plymouth; to have
! escaped thiough the p'-flogc*
• Du Raz. It is conjeciured
j that they are bourn] to Airier
| ica, to relieve she two ships
j blockaded there by Briijfh crui,
i zers.
Vefterdav was unnrorluflivc
j of any arrivals from the Con
• incut, A report was in eircu
; lation, that the Paris papers
| had arrived with advice that
the French funds had fallen to
per cent, in cor. sequence of
| unfavorable accounts from the
j enemy.
; The Marquis I.ucchesini,
! during his flay at Vienna, was
: challenged by a Pm Ilian Noble’
I man, who accused him of trea
I son to his country. Lucche
firii declined tlie meeting, and
; let off for Lucca, but the Pruf
> fian has followed him to Italy,
j I his Marquis has made very
S extensive purchafcs at Lucca.
The crew of the Dutch fri-
I gate lately wrecked on Suncia
i I Hand, one of the Orkney:,
j have, surrendered to the Vo
| lunteerswho went from Thur
; f° against them, and are a. t iv
|ed at Kbkwai!. Several of
j them are Itau-dto have petifh*
j ed from the leveri'y of the wea-
J ther.
GEORGE K.
Additional inflrußions to the
Commanders of Ships of War
and privateers , and to the
Judge of the High Court of
| Admiralty , and to the Judg.
J es of ike Courts of Vice-Ad”
niirally ... Given at our Court
at Si. James’s the eighteenth
day of February , 1807, and
in the / orty - Seventh Year of
i our Reign.
“ Our will and plrafure is,
! that the ships and goods be
! longing to die inhabitants of
j Hamburgh, Bremen, and o
l ther places and countries
iin the Nonh of Germany,
which vefiVls and goods (ball
he employed in a trade to or
from the ports of our United
Kingdom (ball, until .further
order, be fuffered to pal, free
and unmoiefted, notwithlland
ing that the laid count:ics are,
or may be in the pofFflion, or
under the controul of France
and her allies ; and all inch
ships and goods ib tiading
which may have been already
detained, fhail be forthwith li
berated and reflored.
“ Bv his Majesty’s Command,
(Signed) “ SPI’.NCER ’
Downing Street, March 11,1807.
NEW-YORK, April 10.
Ry the ship Nevv-York, from
Jiimaica.we have received Kings
ton papers to the 15th iMarch
A postscript to the Royal Ga
zette of the 14th says:
“By the Eagle Guineaman,
arrived here from 7 rinidad we
learn, that a vessel had arrived
there on the 27th ult. with ac
counts of Cuoiana, on the Spa
| nish Maine, having been taken
1 by gtn. Cranford, who sailed,
j from England early in Novem
j ber last, in the Spencer, of 74
j guns; the honorable commodore
! Stopford, accompanied by the
Theseus,Ganges and Captain, of
74 guns each, and several other
vessels of war.-
1
J. Extract <f a lent ter to tt gentle
! man of Sew York, dated l. ti-
J near, Aov.S, 1806.
j “On she 26th October, 1806.
j his Dani h majesty was pleased
| to order, through his commissi
; on for the management of qua
’ rantine aff-urs —'i hat in const
I tjuer.ee of advices receive,
* henceforward, and until contra
ry orders, th - porta of N. \ork
. Rbilarlflpisia, Providence, ar-d
New-Havm, are only to In
considered as suspected, and hot
j infected, consequently only sub- 1
I jeet to quarantine of four <!a\s I
iior. i hat the ether harbors j
and ports in the states of New
'Vork, Pennsylvania, Connect!* !
cut and Rhode-tsiand, are no t
longer to be considered as sus
pected. ’1 he ships to be provi
tied v ith the Danish Consul’s
! certificate, wanting which they 1
! will Ire treated as heretofore.”
1 *
nay n.
Port mi Pr ince. March 10.
j Extract, cf the Journal of the se
nate. in their .session, March
0. ! 807, sth i/ettr of the Jude
j pendenc.e of iluuti:
“ i he senate assembled agree
at'ly to the 68ih article of the
constitution.
** A member observed that
i s 'nce the rebellion of Henry
j ChrjsTophe, nominated presi
| dent of Hrtvti, by the constitu
j ent assembly, in its session of
) the 28th December, 1806, the
; presidency had been vacant; and
| that the public good imperiously
j required that it should proceed
! without delav, to the election of
! anew president, conformably to
i the lOGih and loath articled of
the constitution.
“ The subject being deliberat
ed upon, it wa resolved unani
mously to proceed to the electi
on of anew Pi evident; arid urgen
cy decreed:
“ 1 he ballots being taken there
were found to be 16 votes, and
that gen. Petion had 13 votes.
*—Whereupon Gen. Petion was
I proclaimed president of Hayti.
BA RIA ITER, President
“ la the name of the republic•
“ The president of Hayti or
ders, that the above act of the
senate be published and execut
ed; and hr sealed with the seal
of the republic.
“ PETION.”
NORFOLK, April 8.
The information received by
the Louisa, from Jamaica, ai
though coming in a circuitous
direction is later than any thing
j which tve have received from
J Barbadoes, and Trinidad,
j It appears that the Rochefort
| fleet is out and destined for Mar
j tinique. The British force con
i sisis of fiv? shijts of the line
mentioned under;*the Jamaica
j head. Ihe KatnUie of 74 gun*
j had also arrived fit Barbadoes,
I and will if necessary, be added,
j which will make tire two fleets
I equal in number, in which case,
j the event of a battle may be cal
culated upon with certainty. R
j is not without the scope of pro
j babilitt, that the Rochefort fleet
I may make its appearance oil our
! Capes, with a view to relieve the
! Patriot and Cybelle, now block
i aded by the British force m the
j bay.
j We have it from good autho
! rity, that there are now in circu„
I lation in this place foigecl notes
ol the Baltimore Bank for 100
j dollars signed Jus. Cook, Cash”
| ier, and George Wiimote, Pre
sident ?, they can be detected by
i minutely investigating the Cash*
i ier’s name which is badiy exeeut
-1 ed.
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Defence of the Seaports.
Among the means of pro
tecting the seaports of the U
niied States, none seem more
rational, practicable and pro
miitrig than an abundant pro”
vision of the instruments, in A
plements, and utenfie. of de
fence for the militia in their vi
cinity : Cannon, battering and
field, iron and brass; ovens for
; heating balls; mortars Sc shells;
j ho He artillery ; muskets, rifles,
j piltols, (words and bayonets,
j To meet ships at every point
I and every pass with artillery ol
! ever- ii/e and red hot balls;
j to check an enemy on their
| landings bv alert and well rnr
j ed .corps; to deft roy them if
1 thev do land in order to j lun’’
der, are periiaps as eOWiiual
and f<u huda hie defencesggain(t
material injuries, as regular ck:
colt 1 v fouifications. If the
latter are ereded, the former
fiiouid bcahnndantly provided.
Public Advertiser.
Copy of a letter from .V. Orleans,
tinted 1 ‘ith-, 1807.
‘ My bear sir,
]t has been contended on j
die floor of Congress, by and ole
who ate ever 1 early to (beak of
/f
wint they do not !inder(tarvd,
that the current of jnflire here
was undiilnrlied, and that, ge
neral \Vilkinion’s nfurpations
in lazing and fending to the
United States the known . r ',f[o’
cates of Burr,was not only un
warrantable, but untie cefTary;
& yet we have f'een J .1;. Work
man and Lewis Kerr acquitted
here wifi triumph, although it
was proved by two witnesses
they’ had attempted to corrupt
the army, and pro no fed faz
ing on the banks and fhtpping
| —Alas! what is to become of
| us, whilst private views and
| personal tel titments continue
to influence our national coun
cils. This city has at several
moments been on the verge of
a civil war; and if gen. Wilkin
son had omitted the decisive
heps which he adopted, the
calamity would have been un
; avoidable, and a fee he of car
nage and horror would have
dined—And by whom was
Inch dreadful commotions ad
vocated ? By republicans, by
the friends of equal rights and
liberty?—No fir; by advo
cates of revolution and anar
chy, and despotism ; by those
who have exprefled the opin
ion ; that popular influence
‘’ jhould be employed to intro
-1 “ duet defpolifin,” the clamor-
J ers for a itrong, armed, ener
j getic government, and the
scandalous vilihers ol our pre
irnt I'yflnns and our prelent
adminiilration ; And what, was
this for? the more effectually
to secure Burr’s poffelfion of
this city, vviierc, il he had once
erected his flarniatd, ins force
would have tticrtafcd with ra
jiidity, and fuuiifhcd him with
every means of defence, <xc. j
he would have put his country !
at defiance, & probably mam - ;
tained his hold until lotne Eu
ropean power might have tak
en him bv the hand and wrelt
( ed from us the wealth and com
merce of the Miliitiippi.
When gen. Adair popt into
I the city, whiilier it has i)e< n pro
! veil be was sent by ilurr in Nash*
i ville, the exultations of the re
-1 voiutionists was loud and public;
: for he led them to b.dicve Burr
5 was at hand: Judge Rievost,
i accosting lieutenant Bhaw in the
: street, exclaimed with passion—
j “ Wcii, sir, 1 give you joy, geu.
J Adair ban arrived; he dimes at
Madame Forages, and is mucii
at the service of gen. Wilkinson,
and to-morrow or next day, we
expect col. Burr.” Proof has
j been given that gen. Adair said
I to a confidant, after his arrest,
j that *’ if gen. Wilkinson had gi*
! veil him twenty-lour hours in
j Ncw-Orleans, lie could not have
! made him prisoner, its he, (A-
I tlair) had more friends than ne,
j f Wilkinson;” yet the envenom,
j cd tongue, directed by the ma
■ lignaut heart of a dcelauncr, has
; iatiourcd to derogate from the
services, and to stigmatize the
j conduct of the man wiio, by die
j exescise ol a dread rcaponsiOiiy.
j tus saved tins puce horn unci
ruin, bname on such conduct.
ijaii. American.
Ap^rentices’s Inden
tures for sale at this of
fice.
*!|‘ Y a r ir-i • yf f
JL X .JL }\ JL \_> a
SJF.iXXsUI, fun/ 7. IBo7*.
Bti Thursday next will be launch
ed, (weather permittingj !\K-*sr*
Robert ik, John Bolton’s now Ship
—die first that has been h idr in
j 1 Ids Port, since the I.uicp mdonce
of America.
-s*f. ■*&*’• -jaa. ss> *as>
Marin eln tellipen ce.
! ?•*''&**<•& -**s>***>:’ <**, #>
FOR r OF savannah!
c I. E A /(> E D,
\ SLIP Prosperity, R av , Liverpool
I *Mh>MJij)pt, Drummond,
j Greenock
i Brig ( atlierine, Newbok!, s t ,
1 Croix
j W.li’r Friendship, Patterson,Wis
cisset
j ?lr 'op Factor, Dexter, N. YoT
j ~ L'bertv, Bowles, ditto
j Ship Nimby, Ruler, Liverpool
Liberty, M'Pherson, ditto
i Sheriff’s Sales',
j Cn the Eirsl 1 uesdaij in June
next,
WILL BE SOLD,
j Ac the court-house in the city of
I Savannah, betxvecn the hourt
i of 10 anil 3 o'clock,
ALL thole buildings and
I improvements, onthe N. W.
| half part of Lot No. —, Deck
! cr U'a and, belonging to the
j heirs of Philip Minis, decealed
j —formerly occupied and own
! p d by Maurice Lehiff.
j A fifty acre lot, known by
1 the number 8, the lioui'e at
j present occupied by joleph
Arnold, in Ardon Ward—•
and three lots, being part of 3
j Lve acre loi, adjoining the
| town, formerly belonging to
1 the ellate of John Currie, dec.
| taken under execution as the
| property of Joseph Arnold, at
! the suits of Benjamin Buffy,
j fu reiving copaitner afld Benj.
! Buffy, j tin. nverj
Postponed from Mav Sale*.
[ T. ROBER TSON, S. C. C
May 7 50
Sheriff’s IN a Ics.
j At the court-house in the city 9f
j Savannah,
WILL BE SOLD,
! On the. first Tuesday in f une next,
Lot No. 6, Moore Tythiug
Percival Ward,w;:h the bmkling*
and improvements ; taken in exe
cution as the jirnpenv of the es
tate of John Wvr-ai, decease I,
to satisfy a judgment in favor of
j Owen Owmis.
A f.SO,
All that tract nr parcel of land
| containing 1660 acres more or
j less situate in county on Bus-
I faloe creek near the head of iittie
! Satilla river bounded by lands of
i Samuel ‘Vest and others, taken
under execution, at tin: suit ol iho
Executors of Gilbert vs. Execu
tors of George I laiit,
ALSO,
Ail that lot or parcel of land,
at Montgomery, with the im
proverneuis thereon, at present
i occupied bv Hr van More!; taken
j to satisfy sundry executions a
i gainst him.
i Postponed from Mtv Sales.
T. ROBERTSON, s. c. c.
May 7 50
; ST KAY ED ’
I TNTO the subscriber’s planta
; il tation on Saturday last, a deep
1 sorrel HORSE, branded on the
! neck and thigh of the rising side,
; I>. with a flower de luce over it
1 marked a good deal with the sad*
tile, and collar, .-.ikl is about ta
hands high. Lire owner may
have him on pm ing tor this ad
veriisimnt, and reasonable ex*
| [rentes.
, JOSHUA BUCKII ALTER,
j Ed. l y 7. 1 1