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,i- .’(ivi previously, tificj fall ft ?'J,h the Elephant, a Brush LVi )V whom thev w-re informed Stß-jeno* Avreshsd been re lien by the English, tercet of a letter/ram a gentle \anin New T*rk, to a captain - Philadelphia. „ { la ke the liberty of writing in order to acquaint you of which we discovered to ■Lnorthward of Island— J. j, in lat. 1. 56 1-2 or 57 s. by pridian altitude of sun, Caspar , Mand bearing, from the Keef s. j 10 deg- distant about 10 or !1 leagues, being perfectly clear to th:southward, Caspar Island in # jght from the deck just like a jjaycock, flattened at the top;, jnd the top of the basetof or fl u pirt of it, just above the horizon from die fore-top-sail >ai d— lounded in a boat upon a reef twelve feet, but the clump of cm la [ seemed sho der, in some places they run their oars down upon them, being cloudy over Banca, could not get any crojss bearing —soundings when pais- it l 9 to 21 fathoms, the boat bad 5 fathnma dose to the shore „it appears to be small in two ‘little clumps, not exceeding more than 8 t tat hums, £>. E. by 5. and .K. \V. by W. and about 15 or 20 tit hum a broad, Being calm at jbe time we discovered it, by the current rippling over ic, and the quantity oldish swimming about ii,most be very dangerous , as it will never break upon it, the co lour oI the water only discovers it, I would wish you to make it u public as possible.” A gentleman, resident in the upper part of Baltimore County has obligingly fmnisucdus with the following account ot the hail itorm on Wednesday 29ih ult. “ Inc storm began at about half past 12 o’clock, and appear ed to come from South-West,., bat soon veered about to North, hlittle Westerly. A continued ihowaf of hail, about the size of s mat bit, fell lor halt an hour, When the storm became tremen clous ;large hail stOne'4,or latlier lumps oi ice, ot aa irregular ithupc, many ol thetit larger mail IjOuie-cggs were precipitated n* It terrible manner lor hitccu ninutts longer when the storm j ttusca —I measured several ot Iheiaucr, and lounu them to he worn luui teen inches in circum- j ictence, and one oi them weigh- . 1 six ounces, after it had l>een cuusiderabiy melted.” J3alitinrc paper- RICHMOND, May 1. Stic STOXM ON WSDNESOAT. On the ahernoun ot that day \ve had a very leveie hail itorm, which came from the South. The hail was ol con liderable iize ; and did ferine txteution upon the panes ot Gldfs, About t o’clock at night, the lame feene returned. Such ft reams ot inccflant Mid vivid lightning ; Inch rattliiig peals of thunder; inch torrents ol hail Sz rain ; we have ieldoni before witnessed. Aniidlt this uproar of the elements, our citizens were suddenly alarm ed by the cry ot lire ! I she feene was awfully pifciurefq.ue. The lightning it let ms f;ad struck a large houie on the •forth fide of the market, bridge; occupied as a vendue fiorc by Messrs Darmftadt, toiler and Satchel. No one in the houie was tolled, though two ol them diliir.Dly felt the electric shock. The citizens turned out with an alacrity which does them honor and though the houie wiu so filuat *d that thefire engine couidnot piny upon the angle ol the •oofwhere it was Uruck, the hre was loon got under by the ‘ il( i of buckets : a lignal refutation, of the old vulgar °pibion } that the fuc of light ning, is not to he extiuguifh-d by wafer.—We apprehend, mat this high wind has occa sioned cc'fide table damage up on the coal}. In the thunder llorm of April go, the Portland Rage from Portland to Portsmouth was liruck with lightning in Cape Neddnck Woods, and three o( the horses killed. The car riage was conliderably hurt, stud Ihe driver precipitated to the ground. Mr. Low of Cape Ann, and capt M‘Lellan of Portland, were passengers in the stage, but they, received little or no injury. We had heavy {Rowers in this town, and in Bolton they had hail, and the hail did great damage m Newton. A barn was burnt with lightning atCohaflet. [Salem Reg!per. In consequence of important dispatches which government have received liom the com manders ol the squadrons off Brest, Boulogne add Jiochefort, the admiralty, it is said, is about to change the system ot blockade; and on the suggestion of Earl St. Vincent, to adopt a measure of more efficacy, and less peril. It has now been proved by expert, ence, and particularly by wine recent incidents, that the system of blockade is not calculated to answer its purpose and we un derstand the substance of the dispatches robe, that the ad mi. rals and commodores on the se veral stations can no longer be responsible for the execution of their orders ; that his Majcty’s vessels, according to a late ex amination, have suffered the most serious injury on this ser vice ; and that the consequent expence to the country, and the extraordinary weai and tear of the navy, were in value infinitely beyond any partial restraint on the ships of ihc enemy. It is farther stated, that the utmost vigilance of our com mander? is unequal to prevent the escape of the enemy / that in the long period of the equinoctial winds, during the whole of the spring artfEwinter, and the great er part of die autumn, they en ured and departed at their plea ! sure ; anti that his Majesty’s j ships had the frequent mortihea tion to sec- them in the ace of pre paration, ar.d with their sails & yards set, without any possibil ity of preventing their purpose. So persuaded were the cm-nty that they possessed this full Lli erty of leaving their ports at their discretion, that a general sailing order appears to have been.issued to every public port in France ; and that they were executing it as fast as the oppor tunity presented itself. A. squad ron of three ships, two frigates, and five sloops of war, has es caped from Brest ; and a much sronger sq iadrou had nearly ef fected the sane purpose from Rochefort—they had already cleared the harbour, when aa easterly wind suddenly arose am! compelled them to return. 1 hese are but two among many similar instances ; but as they have oc curred at the same time they have impressed themselves very forci bly upon the consideration of the ( admiralty. l.ondai Pupa. The late subterannean research es in Pompeii have been attend ed with unusual success. An antient edifice has been discov ered, in which have been (onnd some medals and vases, in h'gh preservation, and of exquisite beauty : and uLo some instru ments of music, with a statue ot Hercules, iri bronze, in the act ot seizing the hind on the course. On the walls of the structure is a Diana surprised in the bath by Acleon. 1 his intruder is alrea dy attacked by the dogs, with whom he joins in unequal com ! bat, and hi* figure is finely con j trusted with the fail daughter ol l La tun a. — lbid. PATRIOT. SJ VANN A If, May 21. 1307. On Thursday lad, was launched Mt-fTr*. R. &. J. Bolton’s fine new Shin, the GOSSYPIUM—Thin being the fi and Ship ! hat been built in this Port fine? the Revolution, avast r-n ourv- of prople aflerabled on ihe orcAlon—and all were highly gratified bv the wanner in which it was conducted—Tt wi in the one inn of many present, who were competent to judge, one of the hamtforaeft I annelid they had seen. REPORT OP DEATT-TT In the city of New-York, frnm the 18th to the 15th of April, ISO 7. Adults 36 —Children 14 —Total 50; INTERMENTS In the burving grounds of the city and precincts of Baltimore, during the week ending May 4 at funrlfe. Adults lx—Chiidreu 13 —Tot**24., From the Nafianrtl Intet/liaencrr. We received the following letter by yefler day’s mail, from New-Orleans. FOR THE PUBLIC. Mr. Smith.—l pronounce a letter imputed to Gen. John Adair, and laid to he addrefled 10 the Kentucky delegation in Conjareis, to he a vile and infa mous fabiication—and l am able to prove by the testimony of Ralston and Floyd, two of Burr’s a (so dates, that gen. Adair left Maihville with Buff’s knowledge Sc diredi on, and vifiled this city, for the express purpose of co-op erating with the laid Burr. JAMES WILKINSON. N. B. The substance of this letter was noticed in your > paper forne time fincc. New Orleans , April % 1807. j.W. VC! IMPORTANT INSURANCE DE CISION. In the DiftritfV Court of Pennfylvanix, Monday, May 4. Tint avoimuuit ol Marshal. vs. the Delaware insurance Company. on the case of the’ Roc la, was closed this morning, and judge ment given for the defendants —” that they are only liable for an a verage loss.” T'lie principles of the decision are highly important, deciding, tor the first time, ex pressly 1. That the state of the fact, not of the intelligence, at the time of tlie abandonment, must decide the question of a total or loss. 2. That capture and restituti on b fote abandonment, though not known here, defeats the claim for a total loss. 3. That the property being safe, although not actual y in the nossession of the assured, the t ight to abandon, arid claim as for a total loss, cannot lie exercised, at a period subsequent, with or without notice of the fact hero. j u g,re Washington only declared | tlio leaning ol iiis mind , as fie thought, the fact of actual resti tution to tl>e insured, before the hour of -abandonment, sufficient- , ( ly established by the evidence of; tfic Rolla. Dairy llill. Esq lias resigned his office of Commercial Agent of the United States at Kingston, (Jam.) — Charleston Paper. The frigate Chesapeake, Capt. Gordon, was 10 drop down from Washington to Hampton Roads, on the Bih inst . Notice to Manners. — Ihe Eight i House at Smith's Bo’.nt, on ‘.tie Potomac, being shortly 10 fie tak en down, no light will appear ilieie for some nioiitlis. J bul. The animal Spanish ship, Rom Manilla to Amoy has been cap tured by the British frigate Plus ton, capt. Wood. Ihe pnze is valued on a moderate computa tion at 240,0 .0 pounds st p rimg. .Very i 91 kpaper. Marine Intelligence. Pott of Charleston, Piny 13 Capt. Shepherd, on the loth inst ."poke brig F.ophemia.Torrv, from this port off Florida. On the 15th inst. spoke btig A riven tore, I.ogrol, off Cape Remain, from New-Orh-ans, out 15 days, | with the loss of her main mast, i Sr.me day, saw a ship to the | southward of the bar, with the j loss of her mizen mast and main mast. Arrivals at Liverpool from this port—Tßc Yorkshire, Lee; Neptune, Osgood; Isabella Mit ier; Vigilant, Bosworth; l-liza, Slaf’-r; Augusta, Dash wood, Lu cy, logics; and Union Tucker. The schooner Charlotte, of this port, from New-York, bound j ro the West-Indie9, was spoken j on the 4th ult. m Lt 39, long. 70, 50, out 3 davs. Capt. McClellan, April 13, in i lat. 45, long. 29, 30. spoke the j ship Rosanna, Brown, of Phila delphia, from New.Orleans lor Liverpool. On Fridav last, a little to the Southward of the bar capt. M’Lellan was boarded by the British sloop of war Driv er, who informed that they had captured a brig under British colours, from Jamaica bound to Philadelphia, and stut her sot Halifax. T he brig Venus, from N.Ymk, has arrived at St. Ann’s Bay, the brig John, l liatch lier, fio;n Rhode-fslntid, at Port Antonio. The brig Eliza, Stubbs,arrived at Port-Royal, on the 9th ult. from this port. The sloop Peggv, capt.. Len negure, from hence, arrived at Kingston, (Jam.) tn 16 davs. On the I 3th of April, off ('ape Nichola Mole, the Peggy was boarded by two French priva teers, of 4 guns each, and full of men, who broke open their lettets in the captain’s possessi on, and plundered the vessel ©fa variety ot other articles together with a part of her cargo. * I The btig Eight Sisteri, Capt. Gilmore, arrived at -Kingston from Savannah, off Cape Fran cois, was boarded by a French privateer, of four four-pounders and one long nine-pounder, wiiU rne hundred and forty men, who pul on board of her four Ame rican seamen that had been taken out oi an Americanvesstl the pri vateer had detained. i he Antelope was bound to Norfolk, but has put into this port for a supply of water.—She sailed from Montego Bay on the J 23d ult. on which day an embur | gr> was to be laid, on account of i the sailing of the homeward j bound fleet cf merchantmen, | which it was supposed would he I continued until the period fixed { for their departure. On Wednesday fast in lat. 28. off Cape Florida, capt. 1 upper j poke brig Eliza, Bailor, 17 | day from this port, lor Nev-Or. leans, had cxp.-i iencud nothing but head winds *od cairns. Nassau, (w v.) M j 4. i Arrived 0.1 Friday, tin: piivate j vessel of war, May-(Tower, cap ! tain Johnson, with the following vessels her prizes: Tire Sparefh febr. Caridad, from Cam ptaeby to Havana. Cargo, bets, rice, ica- Ul< The Spanish polacrc schooner El A'euvo Act.vo, from Fcr.i C,nz, bound to Cadiz, carrying I three long 12 pound, la, and 13 | mc n; was captured after an*n j gagement of two houri, & a halt, j Cargo, cochineal, indigo, cocoa, j and barks. j The Spanish schooner, la Di- I vino Pastora, from Campeachy | 10 Havanna —Cargo, rice, bed, j leather, (kc. I The Spanish schooner I*,ont j serrat, iiom liiuabaiio, in iial i . . j Arrived on Saturday Spanisu I uchuoiicr, Usiiiit ankusvii, loaded j with sugur, captured b) the l lower, near me Bay of Honda. May 1 1 • T he sloop Polly, 01 Savannah, load’ and with crvrn.pht -Ift here ve terd rv in diMirtss, having spuing a leak. Kingston, (J.) Ayril 11. Informatuin having be.-n re ceived Here that the American •hip Indortan, of 24 guns, and lullv manned, trading 10 St. Do mingo from the United States, lv*d lately been fallen in with, & eugngfd by the Squirrel frigate, Ot 24 guns, which she succeeded in beating off, the Elk brig < f 1 8 guns. Cap!. Coghian, sailed <m Tuesday, we understand, Er the purpose of endeavouring? to j intercept her, and afterward.-* ! to proceed to New • Providence. The Ameiican schooner Ex periment, Boring, whb a cargo el hour and rict, from Baltimore to Montego Bur, captured i y a French privateer, oflOgiun ,?i SO m*n, oil I in ks Island, o. dered tor St. Domingo, hut. fal len in with and re c .ptuti-d off Monte (.It r i to bv la Keposa bnjj arrived on T hur day. April 25. An embargo was I.fid yester rl >.v on ail foreign and neutrul vessels, and on British vessel* bound to the Spanish Colonies, to continue until tile 22.1 of May next, inclusive. TO THE PUBLIC. H IVING heard hat there is a report in circulation that lam the person who aflamed the name of Brown, in Charles ton, and fwindted three couuiivmen of their Cotton. an<l know i g that such re ports, if fullered 10 pai- unrontr ididted would tend to injure n;-. 1 h.,v? t .k. ri this method to inform tlie puhlie that it is a faifity.and that there are now, in this ci-- ty, three gentlemen who boarded in the fame lioufe with mvfji, & c m c*tify that I am innocent of toe ch * r.-e. JOHN BLAIR. May 2 s 54’ REMOVAL. George Enoe, Merchant Taylor. ■ Refpeftfutly informs lias friends & the public in g-niral. that he l;as reiHcved ro a Houle in the Yellow .Building!, bel ag ing ‘O the estate of the late Mr. i’erer \Vy -Iy, deceased, and opoofi e to Dr. A. Haberlham’s, in Bud street, facing the Exchange, where he continues his Bufi nefi in all its various branches. Hiving procured additional WO It K MEN of capability, he hopes to render full fatisfaiStion in the erccutian *f such or ders as he may he favoured with, both in point of pun&tuality and d-fpatch, with nturnefi p.ncl tafic uot to liAxce. 1 ed. Theartic'ei cnropHyv *Tis Atfornnent are good and geuerSifiJUir well fui'.cd to the prrfent tcasou’ May ;5 .15 ts NOTICF. Tar p,-ri i.’ershi a Or />. 7 ORPY & Cos: IS this day diflb'ved, I y mutual con sent—t hey re quest all thole iri bled to i them, to make immediate pavmeut other \ wfefnits will he ermmenced agaiaft them without difcrimitiatiou. D TOR PY. W 1 HUM.SON. May 11 5 1 JUST RECEIVED, And Tor Sale , 12 pipes 4th proof Boutde&ux BRANDY, 18 box.** SO AP, Apply to Jacob idlers c . Miy 21. 34 61 Fcr hale, Ten, to One Hundred JL i ishels of good Rough Rice, Deliverable at tiny wharf in Sa vannah, at Twenty Honrs No nice, at ONE DOLLAR per bushel. Enquire of Merrill e3* Parkhurst, Gibbons’ Buddings. May 21. 54 4t NOTICE. r I~ , HE Part net ship of THOM- X SON N TOKPY was ciis solvw) on til. iOili ln-t. by Inutu.ll c*itßnt —They request all liioso !(,■• b 1 1 U) tfit iii, to make im mediate pi'l mern, otherwise suits will be commenced against ihein without discrmimaiion. W. THOMSON. P. TORPY. Maj 21 54