feral to cede for ever a tract of land not c receding 700 acres to George 111. king of England, for the purpose of railing grain, &_■. lor the garrison ; this trail, by the ' Governor's warrant on my precept, (be ing then Surveyor General of South Caro lina and Georgia) was run out by Capt. Hamilton, one of my ablest Deputies, whom I inftru<£led to lay it out in a fork of Taneflee, and one of its southern branches : " what need was there for lay ing out 700 acres, a gift from the Nation, it they had surrendered the whole Jason country to the Crown ?") This done I set out in June, 1756, with 60 men, (king's troops) commanded by Captain Raymond Demere, Lieutenant Goldimith, and En sign Kitemore; also two companies of pioneers, each 120 men; the one com manded by Captain Stuart, Lieutenant Adamfon, and Eniign Anderfon ; the o ther l>y Captain Poftel, Lieutenant Loyald and Ensign Wall. Thetraftof 700 acrss of land I found bounding northeastward upon Taneffee and northward upon Tale quo rivers. I'he fort called Loudoun, I laid out (40 chains eastward from the mouth of Talcquo, io chains westward from Tafkegee, and 150 chains from Lit tle Talmothjee) in lat. 36. d. 1-4 m. and 372 miles difference oflongitude weft frorp Charleston, but 450 miles by the road; the fort in figure a regular rhombus, 300 feet per polygons, had two baltions on a narrow ridge of a mountain eroding the fork, and terminating with a rocky bluff 41 feet perpendicular above the water's level, upon Taneffee, and 28 feet above the furface of the land, where the two o thVr bullions were creeled ; the breast work I made 21 feet rtiick, and planted in the ditch a hedge 6 feet high, and 6 feet thick, of prickly locust, armed with numerous chevaux de frife like thorn, 3 and 5 inch es long ; had barracks built for 300 men, the fort occasionally fuffi'ciently defended by half that number. 1° *7S9> Henry Littleton being then Governor of South Carolina, Ensign Kite more was appointed Lieutenant and Com mander of Jfort Prince George, oppolite Keo.vee town, on' the eaftermoft extremi ty of the Lower Cherokee fettlerrieuts.— llis improper condnifl provoked the whole Nation to war ; Fort Loudoun was block ed up,' the garrison then confiftiilg of 100 king's troops, under command of Paul, biother to Raymond Demere, and iod Provincials, commanded by John Stuart ; they held out fix ino.iths, unto the 9th of August, 1760; in vain waiting for relief, 1 they capitulated, marched out, and in i their fir(t encampment, the 10th of Ah guft, at day break, the Cherokees from ambuscades killed 17 men of the garrison, parading under arms, and all the officers Stuart excepted, who with the reft of the men threw down their arms and were made prisoners. Tp be thus precise, I (prefiiming the only one who remains of thtil'e that offici ally know of this matter) feel myfelf in duty bound to give in evidence thfc matter ot' fail concerning the surrender which the Cherokees made to the Crown of En gland in 1756, wit of ,700 acres only, and no mere, for a fort and garrison to det'endf this Nation against the Janees, but not to take and hold pofleflion of the Jafcn country. . Which, this aoth day before the -Ver- nal Equinox, 1795, in my 77th year ot" asc, is certified by pnc-i JOHN GERAR WILLIAM D£ BRAM NJtW. HARTFORD, March 18. " "tV night part the dwelling house of Mh join Spcncer of this town was consumed by (ire, together with all its content!, (lores of provisions, &c. His son, itbotut 18 years of age, whom he looked vpon as the chief fiipport of his declining years—his daughter, of about i 6 years of age, and Theodofia Cleve land, daughte/- of Mr. Ezra Cleveland of ■ Bri-Hol, of about I j years of age, who that flight occdfiunally lodged at Mr. Spencoi's house, all perished in the wife in attempting to re lieve- her chHdren was much burned, hi»t 'it is thought is in a fair way of re covery. A lad of about x 3 years ©Id who lodged in the fame bed with the young man that fuffered, providentially escaped unhurt.—A folcmn call to the benevolent for their sympathy and af hftance 1" PORTSMOUTH, N. H. March 3 1. The following account of the brig antine Betsey, of this port, Joseph Mnreli, late mailer, stranded on .Long lilaud the 13th ult. and loft, was taken from Mr. Samuel Trefethen of this town, who was mailer at the time (he was stranded, Capt. Marlh (raving died at Martinique. The Bet fey was from Martinique, with hides on freight for New-York, was taken near the island called the Saints, by a French privateer fchooncr called the Genera! Pichegru, one Louis Captain, Le Egaie Lieute nant and George Lecraft of New- York, bailing Mailer ; this,privateer is said to be the p:!ot boat called the Hound, formerly of New-York, from which it is supposed fne failed with her guns, Sic. concealed ; the crew of the privateer pillaged the br igantine in a mnft shame/ill manner, iby taking her Regit! er, Papers, QVad ants, all the cloatlwng, bedding and what money tliry could find from every person, on board, without dillin&ion; they broke open Capt. Marsh's chest and took thirty-three joes, a *atch and every ar ticle of value it contained ; tobbed the mate of iiis watch, and every aiticle of cloathing, except a thin jacket and trowfers he had on. The sickness which prevailed on board and rendered the people wholly unable to navigate the velTel, by which means flic was loft, is supposed to be wholly owing to the want of necefTary bedding and cloath ing> pillaged in the moll barbarous man ner by these brutal pirates, who we hope ete long will meet their jutt re ward. BOSTON, April 4. Beans. Mr. Clerk, of Lunenburgh, Upper Cohos, raised lait year, 987 bushels of bsrans, from one bushel feed. CHARLESTON, March 19. Extract of a letter from Port de Paitf, to citizen Foufpertuis, consul of the French Republic M Charleston, sign ed by Mireur, commanding the fta-' tion of the lfles to the leeward. " I profit, my dear friend, of the oc casion of Captain Hervieux's departure, to write to you. lam now busy in arming the corvette Hyena ; in twenty days I (hall be ready to fail for the con tinent. Our privateers have taken a considerable number of English prizes ; we have great success against our ene mies : we have taken Leogane, Cape I'iberon, Jeremie, arid Port au Prince is our's by this time ; the English are about evacua:ing the Mole and St. Mark's ; we havd also taken three Spa nish towns, t<» vfit, Sairit Michael, St. Raphael, and Hynche; the whole of the colony will soon belong to us. March 16. We are informsd that Dr. Mangou rit, late consul of the republic of France for this Hate, is appointed commiflary, or chief of the office of foreign affairs at Paris. * Philadelphia, April 14. In the Aurora of this morning it is said, that " evsry. nerve was (trained agafnft Mr. Brent," the fucccfsful can didate again It Mr. Lee—The fad is otherwise. It is well known, that a I moil extraordinary, combination was formed against Mr. Lee—that a circular letter, from this combination, such an one as perhaps never before insulted the free ele&ors of any country, was dis patched t» the dillritft; but after all, the principle of rotation produced the eledtion of Mr. Brent, who by the Way j is not a party mail ; and of such only our country has ought to fear. A oorrefpondent observes, that the ' letters on parties under the signature of Conftantius, are among the best, if they do not claim thehigheft rank of modern political fpeculatiorls. The writer is one of the small number of politicians whose mind appsars to be superior to those prejudices which unbalance the judgment, and warp the feelings of the great body of the writers who address the public of the present day. A party j spirit is acknowledged by all to be an e j vil—fomc hold that it is an inveterate one, and cannot be eradicated : If , this is true, the writings of Conftantius ; will, if read and attended to, contribute much to mitigate and diminish its ma lignity. Sayj a Correfpmdmt, Our ships are traversing the Euro pean Seas in fleets ; we are carriers for the world—at this moment more per haps than a thousand fail of American vessels, are pursuing as neutral bottoms, as advantageous a commerce as ever was enjoyed by the oldest and mod favored nation,—What fhafl be la d then of the condtidl of those, who have never, ceased from the commencement of the war, to abuse the men, whose wisdom and poli cy have secured to their Country the important blclfingj of peace and a neu tral Commen-e ? That allthebelligerent powers have conduced at times unwar rantably Towards us is true—that their condudl has been execiable in many ca ses is admitted—but, it is abundantly evident, that the rtleafures of our own Government Which have preferred us Irem the horrors of foreign anddomeftic war, and placed us in a situation fuperi-* or to that of any other Country that e ver exiiled, are a foutcc of mor» invete rate and malignant cenfureto some wret, ches than all the depredations and fpoli. ationsof the Britifli cruifers—Worfee- nemies than such men, America cannot pofiibly fofter in her bosom. WILLIAM NICHOLS, Esq. is appointed Marfha! of the Did rift of Pcii.frl-ania, in the room of DAVID LTINOX, Efq who has ' At a general meeting of the Members of the Philadelphia Contribut:on(hip, for the insurance of Houles from loss bv Fire, held at the Court-House the 13th instant, the follow-in? gentlemen were eleiteii, viz. DIREC VORS, Gunning Bedford, George Roberts, Richard Wellj, Thomas Morris, John Morten, Mordecai Lewis, Pattifon Hartfhorne, Samuel Coates, John Peiot, Samuel M. Fox, David Evans, Bartholeroew Wiftar. TREASURER, Samuel Sanfom. Died on Saturday evening l*ft, aged 69 William Craig,ofthis city, meichant, formerly a magistrate. His death was occasioned by a mortification, which en sued from a flight wound jil the foot ; thus from a cause apparently trivial, Society has loft a worthy member, who, in the exercise of the social virtues had few equals, and in the difeharge of his moral duties no superior. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. ARRIVED. Days Snow Venus, Mason Madeisa, 54 Schr. Eliza, Lamb Virginia, 8 Sally, Burt New-York, 4 Sloop Almey, Tobfy do 7 Antelope,—- Alexandria, 10 Lively, Banker Rhode-Island, 8 Harriott, Navarro New-York. 7 Sally, M'Cutchcon, do 7 Brilliant, Kentee/ Virginia, 7 Ranger, Dunn, New-York, 8 Capt. William Mason, of the Snow Venus, 54 days from Madeira, informs that on the 6th of January, in a gale of wind, the following veftels were drove on fliore, at 2 o'clock in the morning, —The Brig Chance, Benjamin Frank lin, mailer,—all hands saved—Brig Re covery, of Philadelphia, Captain Rhodes —people saved ; and schooner Friend ship, Capt. Reading, of New-York, the crew unfortunately loft., The place where those veffcls were loft, was so dan gerous a part of the illand of Madeira that very little of their cargoes or mate rials could be saved. 1 he Brig George Washington, arri ved at Madeira the 14th of January and failed for Magadore on the Bth of Febru ary. C 5" The Letter Bag of the ship Star, for Hamburgh, will be taken from the Post Office on Wednesday Evening next. April 14. FOR SALE, Between nine and ten Tbouftlnd Acres of Land, Situate in the county of Frederick, and state of Virginia, being the greater part of Greenway Court Manor.' Part of this tradl lies oh the river Shenondoah, between thirty ahd forty miles above its junction with the Potowmack. The Shenondoah is capable of being rendered navigable, and the navigation of the Potowmack is in a fair way of being compleated to tide watef- which circumstances offer in a few years a water carriage to the fl»uri(hing towns of Georgetown and Alexan dria, and to the City of Walhington ; ffom all which places the said traift is diilant bet ween seventy and eighty miles by land. Tbe flourifhing Borough of Winchester is Only twelve or fourteen miles from it. Between three and four thousands acres of the land are leafed generally for terms not exceeding twenty one years and maney of the terms have only fliort periods te run. The remaining quantity being near fix thousand acres, c»nfifts of the most valua ble part of the trait being extremely rich limestone land, similar in quality to the very fertile country in Lancafier and York counties of this state, and m Frederick county of Maryland. An indisputable title will be made to the purchaser. This trait being situated in a most healthy and fertile country, offers a molt advantageous investment of money ; as 110 part of America can exhibit a more rapid settlement and improvemen, and oenfe quently a m*re rapid increase in the Value of real estate. It would be particularly advantageous to a company of fetflers as the part not leafed, admits of being divided into farms of any size to suit the convenience of the parties concerned. One half of the purchase money mult be paid at the time of file, and the remain ing half at easy infhlments with interest. Farther particulars are deemed unnecessary as it is probable the land will be viewed, by any person disposed to buy before he purchs fes. The price for the whofc tra<S may be known on application to the hon. Thomas Hartley, Esq. at Yorktown, to the hon. John Wilkes Kittera, Esq. at the town of Lancas ter, in this state, to Charles Lee, Esq. at A" lexandria in the state of Virginia, or to the subscriber, at No. 29, north Second street ill this city, who will treat with any person or persons disposed to purchase tiHthe fifteenth, day of June next. 'j Richard Bland Lee. Philad.yfpriJ 14. iawim By this Day's Mail. NEWORK, April 13 Yesterday afternoon the A£hve carre up from the Hook, bunging difpalches from Mr. Jay, to th; Prehdent. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE Received by the Retiree, in days from Liverpotl. LONDON, February i i. The Ear! of Abingdon was this da f brought into the court of King's Bench to reccive judgment for a libel on Mr. Sermon. Previously to sentence being palled, liis Lordship requeftcd leave to fay a few words. He apologised for his intemperate language to Mr. Ef fkine and the Bar on the day when he was lad brought up. Mr. Erfkine ex pressed his willingness to accept the a pology, which he trusted would have a proper effect on the court. His Lordship was sentenced to three months itnprifonment in the King's Bench, arid a fine of tool, and to find security for his future good behavior. [The cause of this trial was, Lord Abingdon's bav'ng, in the House of Lords, fefle&fd on the charaffer of Mr. Sermon, a gentleman employed by his Lordship's truflee, as an attorney, and in doing which Lord Abingdon refle&ed on the profrfiion generally. His privilege as a Peer preserved him from prosecution so fat : but having, afterwards, written his speech, and paid Mr. Wood Fall for publishing it, the mat ter necame adltonable, and terminated as above—much to the credit of the English court of juflice. General Prefcott arrived yesterday from the Weft-Indies, with intelligence of a' very disastrous nature. In conse quence of the formidable and increasing force of the French in it was determined that Fort Matilda fliould be evacuated : this evacuation was ef fected on the 10th of December at nigfit, with the loss of i 6 men killed and 75 wounded. The whole island of Gfadaloupe has thus been wrested from us; and so pow erful are the means of attack and offence which the French now possess in the Weft-Indies, ib consequence of the ar rival of large reinforcements of men, ammunition and ftoris from France, that strong doubts are entertained of our being able to retain Martinique. February 13. On Wednesday Marquis Corrrwallis kiftird the King's hand on being promo ted to the office of master General of the Ordnance; and yesterday his Lordship kified the Queen's hand on the fame oc casion. February 14. HOUSE OF LORDS. Motion of the duke or Bedford, Die Joins, I zth Feb. 1 The order of the day being read for the Lords to be summoned, It was moved to resolve, That ft is the opinion of thi» House, that the ac tual situation of the governing povfcers in France ought not to preclude the concfufion of a fpiedy peace, if peace can be had upon such terms as are in themselves jult and reafonabfe j but if the ambition of France should lead her to persevere in hoftilitifcs, either for the purpose of her oven agrandifement, or to carry into effect the principle! of her own government in other countries, this House feels itfelf called upon firmly and steadily to support his maj sty in the vii gorous prosecution of the present war ; which being obje&ed to and a queltion stated thereupon, after long debate, the previous question was put, whether the said question (hall be now put. Kefolved in the negative. Contents 12—Proxies 3—Total 15. Not Contents 75 —Proxies 26— Total 101. Diflentient. PROTEST. Because we conceive the repeated de cla ration! made in the name of the king, and the Resolutions come to by ihis House, are, as they now stand, an ef fectual bar to all Ncgociation with the present Government of France, which can alone be removed by a refolotion of a similar narture to that avoided by the Previous Question, and which is be come the more necefiary, from the de claration of his majesty's ministers in de bate—That tbe Government of France is of such a character, as to preclude the pofiibility of treating so long as they lhall continue to aft on their pre sent principles—A declaration which we conceive to convey little less than a determination to carry on tht War upon such principles, that it can alone be terminated by the deftrudion of one or both the nations. BEDFORD, LAUDERDALE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, GUILDFORD. T!:e Letters received by ;h e Corun na mail, dated the 31ft January, afTlre us, that a total change in .tfclc Spanift minidry had jnft place. N' it her Pampelun* nor Rosas had he n taken by. the French ; but the I'iench baring on the twenty sixth Ja, nuary made a great breaeh in the Fort of Trinidada, which is near Pofas, the Spani(h gariifijn evacuated it the next evening, having previously fpjked the cannon ; they were taken up from its sally ports in boats, and convryed 011 board the Spaniih fleet without any loss. The following, very important Letter has been sent to Mr. Jchafon, th« American Consul, by Mr. Piuck ney, the American Minister : <£ Great Cuttiherland-Place, January joth, 1795, 1 " My„ Dear Sir, " Mr. Monroe our Mirifter Pleni potentiary in France, informs me j'n a letter dated at Paris, Jan. 7th, 1795, that the Convention have agreed to carry into full effed, the Treaty of Commerce between the two Republics. As this is, 1 presume, the mod authen tic information which has been received of this determination, I have thought it proper to communicate it to you of. fjciaUy, for the information of our com mercial friends. 1 am, with refpeft, dear Sir, Your molt obedient, '■: And molt humble servant, THOMAS PINCKNEY." Jofhila Johnson, Esq. &c. &c. &c. GIBRALTAR, Jan. 12. Letter from Barcelona brings an account of more than 25 fail of Engliftj.. yeffels being taken between Algiersand -jurelma by a French 40 gun {hip. PHILADELPHIA, April 14. Lafl evening arrived here from Liver pool, which place she left the.2i'ft of February, the brig- Hero, captain Ed wards, who informs, t ; hat ai\ Embargo was laid on the BViti/h fhippino in all the port s in England, on the day he fail ed, which wag expected to continue fix weeks. , M < , Capt, Edwards failed in company with the /hip Bolton Packet, bound for this Port. ' London papers received by the Brig Hero, from Liverpool, to th<- i Qt'i Feb. inform—that petitions and coun | ter petitions on the fubjeft of peace continue to be presented to Parliament that some of these have occasioned I very (harp debates—that the majority for war continues to be great—that the : dutch property in the British funds re- unatatrhed—that the thitCh ves sels are detained till it is ascertained what part the UnitedProvineesmean to take—-that the preparation for war continue—the Engli/h fleet under Lord Howe put to sea about the 16th Febru ary, but it was supposed had returned into port—that there had been a severe adlion in the Mediterranean between (he British frigateliiconjlant 0f36 guns, Capt. Montgomery, and a Freneh fri gate of 44 guns and a (loop of war, in which the (loop of war was funk, and the frigate captured by the Inconstant. —That 560 French troops havirg tak en 50 Spaniards near Rosas, after they had surrendered put them to the sword; in confluence of which Adfhiral Gra vina had landed a considerable forci which had surrounded the 500 French and killed the whole number except 27 —among the latter wete the two offi cers who had ordered the Spaniards to be killed; these officers were taken on board the Spanish Admiral's (hip, and ftot—That the Finprefs of Russia if dead, See. The (hops and ftofeMn Amfterdnm vere {hut only a few hours, after which mfinefs went on as usual. The Jaco )ins in Marseilles had obtained the af ■endancy—in conftquence ofwhich the Convention had declared that City to be in a state of blockade. theatrical Mr. Hodgkinson, When he peifmmed the Chara£ei of WaltSß in that interesting ftcn< in '• the Children in the Wood' in diluiading Oliver to murder the in fants—A Capt. S. well known rn New- York, for his Courage in the Service of the public, as well *s his private rencontres, was so sensibly affected as to rife up fro/n the Box and vehement ly cr y—" Stick it in him—Stick it in him—D—n his foul"—Heie Nature yielded end 'he wept.' Hodgkinfon the inimitable Rofcius of this ctmitrv, felt, and wept also,—the audiei.ee par ticipating. C> l'he'tetter Bag of t"he ship /(-■ m-ty Captain Campbell f. r HjHnfrnrgfc, will he taken from the P. ft Offi t * Ufa turday Morning,"next, iStaiitiJ, :dq7e.
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