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February 10. The emprefs dowager of Ruflia having refotved to introduce the cow pox inoculation into the foundling hofpital at Peterlburg, Dr. Schultz, lately arrived 1 from Berlin, has offered his i'ervices for that pur pdfe. February 11. A report was brought over yederday, which was ftated to be confidently believed hi France, that Buonaparte was to be chol'en chief inagidrate of the Ba tavian and Helvetic republics.

Rear admiral Campbell's fquadron has put into Torbay, in confequence of the wind having on Monday come round again to the wedward. A Te! jeant of the guards now lying in the upper barracks at Chatham, fome time fince received a farthing In change Tor fome articles he had bought at one of the (hops in the barracks, which, upon examination, proved to be one of the three only which were coined in queen Anne's reign. He was offered 501. for it im mediately which he refufed and carried it to London, where he got 40001. and a difcharge from his regiment The remaining two farthings, it Teems, have been found fome time fince.

A dangerous putrid fever which lately broke out among the children at the Orphan Houfe at Vienna, is found to have originated in the children's licking the pencils which they employed in painting cotton. St. JOHN'S, (Antigua) January 27V 1 A mod dreadful (hock of earthquake (which continued feveral fecoYids) was felt here on Tuel'day night lafl, at 25 minutes pad 12 o'clock The Danifli and Swed'ifh have, 'we under i fland, all been delivered up to thole nations BASSATERR JSt. Kitts) February 19. On Tuefday at the awful hour of 12 o'clock at flight, a mod tremendous fhock of an earthquake was, frit here its duration was confiderably longer than we have experienced for fome timej as the earth was kept in a tremulous motion for many fecouds, appa sently near a minute.

NATCHEZ, February 17. Monfieur Pontalba, brother in law of the late governor Miro, writes from Paris to his friend in New Orleans that the great nation will foon take pofleflion of its ancient dominions on the Miffiflippi and Ohio, 4s far as Pittfburg. March 29. It appears by letters from the Hague, that the Dutch are propofing to ftop the tranfit of Englilh manufactures and produce through their countiy that is in Dlain lantruacre. Holland is to be no lomrer a de pot for merchandise.

The Dutch are no longer to have the facilities for trade which they once had. This 'is evidently the jealoufy of the French, afraid of Englilh commodities being introduced through Holland. Accounts from France" mention that the chief con ful, Bunnapartej has been elected prefident of the Cifalpine republic, with a falary of fix millions of livres per annum. The highed marks of refpedt were paid to him at Lyons and on his return to' Paris, (where he arrived on the 3111 of January) the roads were by night illuminated. PHILADELPHIA, March SO.

It is reported, that advices have been received from Cape Francois as late as the 8th March, which that Toufiaint's camp had been attacked and routed. Immenfe daughter was made and the difcomfitted party retired in confufion to the mountains. March The following extract of a Utter from a gentleman in New York is handed to us. Since I wrote you lad, I have been to fee the Iteam faw inill, which is the wonder' of New York. People are continually running to look at it, heing fomething entirely new.

Take my word for it, it is a handfome piece of machinery, and will loon make a fortune for tlje owner. The mill now goes with but one faw, faws very handfomely, and very fad. They faw mahogany, and I believe any thing that is offered. I was by while thy fawed a large pine lug, which took them but a little while. I am told by one ot the workmen, that they have Tawed, with the one faw, four thotiland feet of white pine board, in the fpace.

of twenty fnur hours, which took one half chaldron of coal. Even at that rate, the proprietor would make clear every twentv four hours, tliirtv 4ollars. They talk of putting up feveral more. This Would be making a fortune very rapidly." April S. Natural ifistory.

JEX ARK ABLE ItEA SHELLU Captain M'Clenaghan, of the (hip Elizabeth, has brought from the coad of Sumatra 3 fliells, which aupear to belong to cockle fpecies, beinir indent 1 1 cu, uiic i muiuiu itti ij iiikii me longelt way, and 2 feet from the joint to the opening, and weighs by ediination from 140 to ISO lb. The oher two are but little inferior in (Tze and weight. Capt. Cock, the great Englilh circumnavigator, fpeaks in his voyages, of cotklts, found on the coad of New Holland, fuch an enormous fize that one ef them was more than two men could eat i the contents of the above (hells, if in proportion to their jagnltude would fufficefor a common fliips crew. Jf.

Y. Daily Adicrliser, A I 6 March s's; We have been politely favoured with the following tranflation, from a French paper, of the gratitude bedowed by Touffaint on his fellow menj for their alhdanre in conducting his booty to a remote pan of the country dhd concealing it At the moment when TouiTailit Loiivertiife forced to. leave the Cape; he took particular care to take with him, all the gold coin then in the national trealury, amounting to about one and a half million of This treafure he had fiid conveyed thro fome of the white inhabitants nearly 15 the Cape, where he generoufty di unified the fame, and truded his booty to 1 5 of his black brethren, whom he (himfelf only) conducted into the motm tains; and having found a convenient place, he made them dig a hole, in which he depofited his riches: After this he difcharged his carriers, under a great many obligations, ordered; them to appear at the camp to be rewardedand what reward did this black hypocrite give to his workmen every human heart mud (hudder to hear when thefe poor fellows arrived at the camp, they were ordered to form a final 1 circle, and Touffaint commanded, in cool blood, a parcel of foldiers with loaded muflcets to dand in half moon round them. gave the word fire, and that they mud die for high treal'on, which was executed. March 31.

CURIOUS CLOCK. A gentleman has lately made a clock, which does not drike the hour by any aggregate of units, but fpeaks, as it were, the full hour at once and it only requires winding up once in three months, and goes fo true, as neither to gain nor lofe more than five' minutes in the. above period of time, let the weather be ever fo variable. London paper." April 1. Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Lisbon, dated 22d February, 1 received at Philadelphia.

A loan has jud been negotiated by this government, with the houfe of Hope and Co. and J. and F. Baring, of London, for one minion and an half' deiling. This goes to France.

The government gave, befide their own fecurity, that 6f feveral of the wealthied individuals in Lifbon." By the Corporation of the City of Annapolis, April 6, 1802. ORDERED, That an election be held on Monday the 12th indant, at 1 1 o'clock, at William Caton's tavern, for the election of a common council man, in the room of Lewis Neth', wh6 declines to accept the appointment. it By order, JrV. THO. HARWOOD, of Ricfd.

tlLCoiv By virtue of a decree from the honourable the" High Court of Chancery, the fubferiber will SELL, at PUBLIC AUCTION, on Friday the 23d indant, at the manfion houfe of the late major Richard THE land called Hollakd's or Bennett's Island, containing by a late furvey 708 acres, part of the edate of the late Richard Chew this land is good, and there flands on it a confidera ble quantity of valuable timber. Perfons inclinable to pui chafe will examine the premifes before the day of fale. The terms of fale are, that the purchafer or purchafers fliall either pay down one fixth part of the purchafe money on the day of fale, or give bond, with fecurity, for the payment of the fame, on the chancellor's ratification, for the refidue a bond or bonds are to be given, with fecurity, on intered, to be approved of by the chancellor, payment in two equal annual payments, and upon the payment of the wnole purchafe money, the fubferiber, as trudee, will pafs deeds agreeably to the terms of the decree aforefaid. JOSEPH WILKINSON, Trudee. April 6, 1802.

In CHANCERY, April 2, 1802. George Hogarth, against Samuel Ayres Chew, Elizabeth JJerry, Henrietta Cheiv, and Bennett Chew, heirs at law of Samuel Lloyd Chew. THE object of the bill in this caufe is to obtain a decree for the conveyance of part of a tract of land called Ayres, part of a tract of land called Carter Bewnett, part 6f a tract of land called HuNt'si'Mount, and a tract of land called The Oblong, fituate in Anne Arundel county, and containing in the whole the quantity of nine hundred and fe venty two acres tff land, more or lefs, which the complainant purchafed of Samuel Lloyd Chew in his lifetime the bill dates, that the faid Samuel Lloyd Chew hath departed this life intedate, leaving the defendants his heirs at law that Samuel Ayres Chew and Bennett Chew are both beyond Tea, and not within the ju rifdlctionof this Court, and that all the faid defendants, except Samuel, are minors 'that all the purchafe money for the faid fends hath been paid, except the fura of .795 3 5, which the complainant is willing to pay, on obtaining a legal title to the faid lands and premifes; it is thereupon adjudged and ordered, that the complainant, by caufing a copy of this order to be inferted once in each of three fuccefiive weeks in the Maryland Gazette, before the lad day of May next, to the intent that the defendants may have notice of the refent application, and of the fuLdance and object of this bill, and may be warned to appear in this court, in perfon, or by folicitnr, on or before the fird day of October next, to fliew caufe, if any they have, why a decree fliould not pafs as prayed. Tme copy, ft Tell. SAMUEL HARVEY HOWARD, Reg.

Cur. Can. In CHANCER Aprils, ,1 Hefivy Cooksey, Of. Leonard Bt'trch, Eleanor Lurch, 'Zadock Harris; and Sarah his wife, Noiley Muildox, and Susanna his wife, Peregrine That and smnc his wife, and Sarah liurcu. THE object of the bill is to obtain a conveyancS in fee limple of the following tracts or parctU of land, lunate, lying and being in Charles county, to pbfed to contain in the aggregate about two hundred acres, which Benjamin Burch, of faid county, fince deeeal'ed, fold to th6 complainant on the' 2 3d day March, 1786, and for the conveyance of which, With a general warranty of the title, he pafled his bond to the complainant on the day and year afove faidj the bill dates, that Benjamin Burch, on the day and year atoreiaia, tola the atore laid tracts or parcels of land to the complainant at, and for the' quantity of two hundred and twelve pounds of tobacco per acrey and on the fame day palled his bond to the cofnplainant to convey the fame to him with a general warranty the complainant has paid conlideration of faid land j.

that the faid Benjamin Burch died in the year feventeen hundred and eighty fix, or 1787, having the faid Leonard Burch and Eleanor Butch, fthe children of Leonard Burch, de ccafed,) Sarah Harris, Sol'anna Maddux; and Anne Thorn, (lifters of the faid Benjamin,) and Sarah Burch, (the daughter of Juftinian Burch,) his heirs at law, and that they without the jurd'diciion of the date it is thereuponr and on motion of the complainant, ordered, tht he caufe a copy of this. order to be inferted three times fucce in the. Maryland Gazette befoie the 2d of May next, to the intent that the now refident defendants may have notice of his application to this court, and of the iub dunce and object of his bill, and may be warned to appear here in perfon, or by a lolicitor, on or before the fiid Tuefday of October next, to fliew caufe why a decree (hould not pal's assayed. True copy, vv SAMUEL HOWARD, 1 Reg. Cur.

Can. NOTICE is hereby given, that the fubferiber intend to petition the next Charles' county court, for a commiffion to mark and bound a trart or parcel of land, called Grymk's Ditch, fituatey lying being in Charles county, containing about fbven hundred and three acres, agreeably to an act 6f affembly in fuch cafe made and provided, entitled, An act for marking and bounding lands. GEORGE CHAPMAN, Jun. JOHN CHAPMAN. 1 Charles county April 5, f) NO I E.

ALL perfons having claims againd the edate of ROBERT DUVALL, kte of the citly of Annapolis, deceafed, are' requefted exhibi their' accounts for. fettlement by the tenth day of Auguft next, and thofe indebted to faid eftate are required to make immediate payment, to RICHARD H. HARWOOD, Excutor. Annapolis, April 5, 1 802. In CHANCERY, April 3, 1802.

application to the chancellor, by petition, fir writing, of WILLIAM RAWLlNGS, of the city of Annapolis, praying the benefit of the act for the relief of fundry infolvent debtors, pafled at the lad fefiion, on the terms therein mentioned, and a fchedule of his property, and a lid of his creditors, on oathj as by the faid act is required, being annexed to his petition, and the chancellor being fatisfied, by competent teftimony, that the faid William Rawlings hath refided in. the date of Maryland for the two lad years preceding the paffage of the faid act, and the faid William Rawlings, at the time of prefenting his petition, having produced to the chancellor, the af fent, in writing, cf fo many of his creditors, as have due to them, according to the lid aforefaid, the a mount of two thirds of the debts due by him at the time of palling the faid act it is thereupon adjudged and ordered, that the faid William Rawlings, by caufing a copy of this order to he inferted three, fuc ceflive weeks in the Maryland Gazette during the prefjnt month, give notice to his creditors to appear in the chancery office, on the thirteenth dr.y of May next, for the purpofe of recommending a trudee for their benefit, on the faid William Rawlings's then and there taking the oath prefcribed for delivering up his property. Ted. SAMUEL HARVEY HOWARD, Reg. Cur.

Can. ROM UL A BEAUTIFUL iron grey, full fifteen hard and' an inch high, rifing five years old, will ftand this feafon, to cover mares, at the farm of the fubferiber, on the fonth fide of Severn river, about five miles from the city of Annapolis, at the moderate price of fix dollars the feafon and one quarter of a dollar to the groom to paid on or before the fiid day of December next. Romulus was got by Highflyer, his dam by Roebuck. The feafon to commence the 1 5 th of April, next, and continue until th 15th of July following. Good pafturage' for mares at two (hilling and fix pence per week, but will pot be aufwerable for accidents or eftapes.

1 FRANCIS T. CLEMENTS: March 27,.