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jt. K-f w-nt 7 flp, fit ft yoyr.sri nuynu by- tbe Court, jTheraoiJJfpt caufe, tvlitch we VuhderilSifrfffrham Buford, aojenterpn zing jiiercial iri" PhiUdelphiVp- mg 24 brats jjemei fi tp' Liverpool, wn totaUy I atiKotfOes, near -uaitiemarj, coui. ty Kerry, Ireland of the crjew, 4 coninting- pi jrt prjly threej "cbinmon iailois fated. he ex ten five fhores ot t'iu't wild country were covered with cotton, coffee, dye ftufT, puncheon ofirum. and chefts ot the molt Va- en openji rifted deftroyeel by--- the common Unf or; riatety, as no maguiratuves in pcighbourhbod of that part Cpuntry, every thing; was af Hp On the 4th dayc Mr.

MMihdtWv-r 1 1 TrfE Suhfcriberls difpofedytaIell his Laadi on the Beaver Ptm Crick, i CraniUe Count, containing, if Deeds Je holds for them, io3 Acr, a nfif fje rtionof which Tacco Land LeV Groups on fte Th high 'i, cl A excellent Quality for Com. It I well watered, a any a tfee State, (ot every Kiad of Stock, litherm SOmmeror Winter. There UnAfufficient to employ eight or ten Hands, now "tn gaod croppiag Repair with a in fuitaI5 Order for the Recepr ir.n nf FamiW. At. thit.Uod can be div.dcd to nuke twp Settlements, nearly of ejul 1 will fell si Part, or the whole, as may eft fuit-Prchafer cf Purchifers, oa good Term and eafy Payfnets, which may be itnoMra by applying tb NICHOLAS LKWIS.

"June 13, 1801. trim Granville CeurilHoufe, on the cf A Likely SorreL HORSE with Of- fornc grVy Hairs in terminer, abtfut feven Years old, and five Feet fiijh balled Face, white under the' three wite Feet, Jiis hin.l f.fM vuhU tin neir td his Hams, and a -nrhitis Scat Kflnw the" Knee of his right fore Lit has Saddle Spats, and the Mark? of Waggon Ceer; a-W? -thick Man aid twitched ail get jmy jaT Mr, Jofeph Boraap, 1 rnnc er oy ty Tbcc to Which Place be will probably endeavour to beog a fpiritcd Horle. wilj give Twenty Dollars Reward to any ferion who will deliver him to be and if aii'y 'tfon knew of ainy fuch Horfe being taken up, wjlj thank them to inform me fcy pft. 4Mts YaVGHan. Miles beiaiht Caurt 'Hw f.

y.saDAY? Junk 16, 1801, The b'rip: Abigail, Capt. Lord, at Philadelphia, on the 4th it ant, in 35 days from Brifiol. 5 brings Briftol papers to the 26th QlVpril, containing London news tQie The following Sum-Jnat which is faid to comprife Yfy thing new, js From a PhiJa-lleljiia ifhe Danish troops were to eva-uafeamburgh on the 17th April necafequerice. i maybe iuppofed nf Relate viSery at Copenhagen. ThreGj4'ss ens 64, and 4 Admiral Totty, had failed fyoiri thlBritifh fleet under Sir Hjle jParkerwhich ft is fup-poed, $butdpaytSrjvfiit to the ports of hisPttTian Majefty in ibe Baltic.

AtCophhs2en, luch of the inha bitants had left the city, had re. turned ith their. and bufi. tie iwas Iomg on as ufual. By per-iiHon erf Lord Nelfon, the inter-courfe between Denmark arid Norway uastsnewed, I pifpaiches from the Britifh ar-5y in Egypt, had juft arrived at Kyrmuth, brought by a packet boat in aotys.

Their content? had not freeri-o finally promulgated, bu they Were ditater thar rhs hft cf Fe: fcruariy. ev Who Mmad ddjtiQn to a fj.f 30OO Asians, enlied in hcidotthechipcl Jti adjoined him. Sriments of infantry and two ren of dif. priounted light dragoonkrr iio embark immediately reinforce gen. Abercrombif An cxprefs had left London with orders for the Set retail I British Legation 8t Blin, to nro- Fpced immediately to 3PeVrfbur A number of French nri- vatcers, which had bee very' de- itruciive 10 tne coaftin? traHr i been cantured hv Rritrv, 1 tuners, bix were lntinto PlvmoutK; day.

The Brilliant BritiSi frigateliad en call away on tHe mnO- fEcance. The crew penfhed. 4' Two journals had beea fu. preyed at Paris. One ofihem fir fpeaking d-ceafed Emperor Paul arjd thc other for undervaluing the coufagc of the Dines in the late So rnucli for the of the Prcfs under ihe Ftrft Conful." I On the fame day arrived at New York5the Capt.

Main, in 33 tiayj trorn lourdeaux, which is age to France fmcc'the our intercourfe with that 'country. raris papers are received to the 26th of April, eight diys later than the French accounts by way of England. Seleaions from thefe papers will be iountl in the preceding columns. AgentlemanVho camepafrenger the Argus, ays, that the news refpeamg the defeat of Abercrom-bie in Egypt, had fallen to the ground, and was dilbelieved at Bourdediix, when he left it, which was on the 2d ult. and the laft Pa-papers are fi iert't on the fubjea.

citizen, lives ion the Ranks of: Broad river rjefr, panckney Court-Hou hicHh ininetymileijibovfs dVinp-jlater. KtedU.ntHisciy, rwith' fiis oWri bdatfebuthi oti his laufi ana tpaaca win crop; a fter haying fa fel i Te bv er all thfe falls andiChQalsth! are be-t weeh ii pl in Ch a 1 f- This is the nrit ehtetDrUe of the Icindithat has: takerv place ii fo great a diftarice from thei- fea and frphijits iuccfe to the Impft pleafing anticiparion of the Jmmeh fe advaiatagcsj which fare li'iHy ifoon to relult from the eafy intercourfe that may new be carried tweeh Charlefton and the on; be- interior icountry, by rrians Of the Sjabtee Ca nal. I Wh en the ob tt a idrt th a vigatiori of the Broad and Catawba rivers, (which are far frhlm being as numerous as have been reDrefen- ted) fhail be removed, th fupera-boundih? of tshe upper country will flow into Chjarlefton In iucn tun tices, and vithk lz mucn jsxpedition, and fo little ex.peoce,-ps will lower our and at the fame time fill the pockets of bur remd'e And What will be equally agrecbi the gentlemen who have perfeVeied fo Juccelsfully, ahd at fuch great ex-pence, to complete the canal, will pofJefs a While it contributes to the welfaifej of the State, will yield them aujincorne jthat-will amply repay all rhat have exprnded in1 an undertaking vhich is unequalled in the new-world A gentleman from Kentucky informs, that fbon after the blockade bf New-Orleans, by tjie Britifh, four brigs belonging toNe-vv-York, laden with flour, failed from that port with a determination to hazaul anefcape, but unfortunately three but of the four were tafceri and ordered for Jamaica. Greaj quantifies of flour were offered at very low prices, on credit, but could hot be fold and, fnould the blockade continue, many thoufand. bar rels, which weie at marke! wotild loft, as it could in cli-mate be preferved from dafriaging.

In a letter from an officer! at rort his trien; in Sa- vannah, dated May 8th. 1001. It it faid, We have alarmirtG: news iroin tne cjemmoles Sow le re- vived intereif and infiuenti at this juncture, will certainly fluke the authority of the Unite; From the beft information. received as Jdte as this day, Bowies' Uias re cetved a cargo ot valuab goods irom iome ot tue amaida ports The traders are flocking! to him. and I fear -will become tii's advo eates, as he difpofes of his goods at an extremely low rate.

Letters from Colonel Hawkins anc Timothy Barnard, fay, the (rhifchief makers are again at work. A convention of the Creek iit-ipn will take place on the, 23d of May. We know nottfje event' I think from the doubtful Hate of the Colonel, a ferious and decifive ftriake is in agitation. A piece'pf copper coin ,1125 lately been difcovcred in opening a fpring in the villageof Chillacotpe, ihe North-Weft Territory. I mprcf fions upon paper of botlj fides of this coin has been lent by) John S.

Wills, Kfq. to a gentlemin in They aopeiri to be Ch mefe 'characters. Upon pre-lenting them to Mr. Peal'e for his Mufeunij he produced folir pieces of copper coin procured at different times from China, whicli; are cx-aftly fimilar to the one found in the lp'ring at Chillicbthq.i'as far as a judgment can be foiiijed from comparing them with the jmpreffion of the latter upon The Chillicothc coin is now fn the pof-feflion of Governor St. jC'lair.

The barbarous Gothic cuftom of Duelling, (fays writerlin a N. Y. paper) which prevails amjangfi fbme of our high fpirited ge itlnen pernicious to civil fbcie and directly opppfite to the niild fpirit of the Chriftian relgion. It f'ur-prifiug that melt who tTiem-felvcs on their humanity and polite- neis, never reriecc, tnai tnis practice is no refinement modern times, but was brongli: into Europe by thofe fierce northern boors, who overran; the Roman empire. The civilized heathensthe polite Greeks, and warlike Romans, were llrangers tp this apfurd, barbarous cuftom.

They reckoned it glorious to die for their country but never (actificed eacjij other in cold blood to the little punailics ot honour. On the 5th" Feb uarv laft. the Dictator of Liverpool; ac newji caufc of much intereftj is cxpefted 'Mr. Gallon declines a re-eleHion to 'the Senate df this State for the county ot Craven, ThieXponimifliorters of the Land Tax fii1 in this, place during "the rSreferit week. TEx.c'ep the counties rf Moore and lyiatin vvmch tnaii pe given in our next, ifrreccived iji irte) the folldwing account completes the Ccnfus of this.

State: Free White Othpr i -v -y- 4 W.MiiJ, ftmu'ti (tt: tUvei. Tolad; Lenoir, i2p4 iatp 55 ta6 40 Pict, a4 3185 31 85 9084 Griene; 19S 149 27 1496 4H 8 Edcomb) 3210,3194 to6 3905 10421 Cumberland, 3236 316 119 373. 9264 ln Guilford, nit art infbryitd the "white J4l's ffgbito bttnjiaxed at 444S, injhud 3 In appears that the cenfus of Kentucky amounts to 250000 pefr fbns, which will entitle fix Repreiehtativesj ihfieadfpt twojj There has not beert a choice of Lieutenant Governor for; MafTa-chufetts; Thief perfbns; having the great eft number of votes; are MeiTrsv PhillipSj Heath, Rbb'bins, and Gerry Ot thefe the Hou'fe wilj fend up tw) to the Senate, who will 1 choofe one of thetn for Lieutenant- Governor. The la ft papers! mention the choice of Mr. Phillips, The National Intelligencer (pub-lifhed at 1 lie Seat of Government) in paragraph which is communicatedfays, the fquadrpn which lately failed from Hampton Rohos, under Commodore Dale has for its objef, inftru6tibn ti" young Gtficers, and the proteaioft of out' cominerceagainft the Barbary Powers, in ofeot a declaration of--war agaitill the U.

States, by 11 or any of thetn. It is hoped, that no ii! have taken placeon the bart of the Barbary Powers but any or mould iiaveaeclared Wi aainft the U. States, Je orders to defend thr honour of his country, and to teci its cornmerve, by affording voy, when required, to Ame. rican vrlftls trading -within the Me-ditciranrin. I he farce; of the fquadrun is thought to be fully able to meet the niVal force of all the Barbarv Powers united.

T'Jie largsil fhip of carries tit 34 guns, fix. and. calkd the Creftent, built in NL Hamp-(hire." i On the 30th ult arrived at the Potomac, oppofite Wafhington the higgles Ncw-Yoik and both of which! are now -t anchor in the Eailern Branch. The United States fhin Trnmholl was fold at auction at the Tontine police -Ho life, New-Ycik, the 29th for 26, 500 dollars. The Engiilh frigate Bofton, fays a Baltimore paper, continues to cruize off our Capes.

The fioop Icrfey-Bluc. Cant. Spencer, from Philadelphia to Bal timore, with a valuable cargo of dry and other goods, was caft away on Saturday the 16th ult. between Cape Henry and Currituck the cargb his been all get on lhdre, but the Veiref, it is expeacd, will he loft. The circumftances attending this lofs nave excited fuf-picions with the lliippers, and if the veffel has been infured, afford ground for a clofe fcrutiny by the under writers.

iThe prog re fs already made in completing the canal and locks at the Great Falls of Potomac (ays(, tfe Georgetown paper.) gives the heft reafon to believe, that thefe which fo jmuch labour and expenfe have beea beftowed will anfwer the purpofe for which they were commenced; i Where the lower end oFine cai nal is td communicate withthe ri-VCr, the channel is already cut thrpugli the rocks nearly dr. quite to its proper depth, and a perfon walking on its bottom fees on each fide of him a (olid tnafs of ftone fifing 40 or 50 feet in height. The excavation ftill to be made is comparatively fmall and the other part pf the work is alfo The Great Falls afford at dVie point a truly lublime fpeaacle. The hurried river, the rocky fpouts which pour down it, and the coloured bow bent over jthe dafhihg floods of foam, ft tike the fpeaator ttfith mingled pleafure and awe. Yet it is probable that nxt feafon, the produce ofi the fertile1 cpuntry above will pafsy the fide of ihcfe falls without dagger, HifBciihy, or delay, and be bprn into this diftri6t to be thence conveyed Joreign climes, Wa are happy in heinp able to inouncc to the pnblic (fays a Char- tetl bordeaux inc 2015 ipnLias tnff ioiiowjng roincn I ct This ahd brmgsiaopW that the Dey of crfclaV red War again ft the-U nit Siries .1 he roiiowing is an exwet ot a tetter from a refpeftable nufe in Amfterdam, to their: correfnderit inNew-York' It is vrith pleafiire we acJjainV ou, that the a6lua! pofition af fairs Lurope promnes muciad- -vantagi to our commerce witche United States.

The peace lly made with' the Emperor, by ojeri-in a fine and 'extenflv'e comrriuii. cation wirh the interior of Geia-nv. will tend to create the derond and enhance the prices of rcerchn ze with us; while the itoppe of intercourfe between tain arid the Northern Powers; itll render our ports more valuable the firft mentioned than everi point of communication with continent, and relieve us from tie fear, of future blockade For a time, no freight Of confequelfe could be obtained here for Amijf veiTels, to the great injury of hr tjrade; but as they are now alnl th.e only ones belonging to a neu.tl flag, have realon to believe ih vvill be much Wanted here; anclt is to be obferved that thofe of 1560 200 tons are beft fitted for the nay-gation of thele His Swedifli Majefly has ifluel an Edi6t, forbidding his fubjeEa from being concerned in canyirig proviuonsot any Kind on liritiul account, in conformity to the li cence lately piopofed by that Go vernment. Upwards of a thoufand pafien gers have arrived at New. York, in different yclTels lrotn Grcat-Bri tain, in the courfe of eight or ten days.

This increafe of emigration, is laid to have atti acted the attention of the Britifh By the Little John, from Gua-daloupe, arrived at New-York, we learn, that the inhabitants, were in daily expectations of a vi fit from the Englilhi They were in preparation to meet theni. 12,000 troops were undcrarms toefend the place. Captain Grinnai Js, oPthe fchoo-ner FrarAlin, artived at Norfolk on the 8thinftant, horn St. Martin's, fays, that the Englilh have block aded buadalouoe. He faw three frigaab cruifm round the ifiand.

from a Bntilh ofhter in the ftates. th.it Coi commands at St. Bartholomew's, General Nicholfon at St. Martin, Grneral Fuller at St. Croix, and Colonel Pickenham at St.

A letter received at Baltimore. from a citizeli of the United States, dated New4Providenrp May 6, 80 obfedes: I have to no purpofe ufed every exertion to procure a lift of American veljels brought in here from the beginning the cofe of the year 1890. I at length got oie, but very mcorrea. However, Iwas able to afcertain that within thefe twelve months three hundred vjfels have, been carried into New-Providence. Now if one half of thofe have been con demncd, which is a very low calculation, the other half which I to have been acquitted ft each 3000 dollars, 450,000 1 he other half, if jhey only were wr(h 25,000 diiai" perjrxflcl, aciountto S.ijD.ooo Dells, Deduft of this fum the real contraband cargoes, cr thetc included which wW not appealed for, The fum thenftaads.

Polls. Captain Leven, of the brig Ex. perimeru, arrived at New-York Irom Cadiz, informs, that on the fecond of April he was brought too by the Britifh frigate Phebe, the Captain of which informed, that on the 6th of March they had captured the French frigate Y'AfrU cane, in the Mediterranean, after an engagement of four hours. The French Ingate had troops on board bound to E-ypt, and had 250 men killed and wounded in theengap-e- jment; Enp-hlh had 20 men kU led, and a great number wounded. The Court of Conferenceopened this city' laft week is ftiil fitting, and," it is ljppofed will continue to fit.til).

the 9I0IC of the prelent we-k, when it mull of necefhty "fev.asthe law limits its continuance Jo tpn days. All the Judges Courts areprefent. Several important caufes have been argued out, as yet, we have heard ot no dtciW having beca made tare Migh bnerui or thectunty Kerry, who lives forty jniiles im' tjhM arrived at tlje fhorV, and, at the ritk of his, life, which' was often; threatened, fdeceed-d in recovering a quantity 6f valuabie piPperty, together witfrmany important letters add refTecl to thej-ft commercial hotifes in Enrtbe. which he immediately jprvvarded iri be alio recovered neaflv 2o.occl. London jbank notes; and bills; took from one of the country men alone, who could not red.

more thari iri which it appears belonged toa Mr. J-anes" Frazer; a relpeitableirnerchant of Berbice, who was a paflermer, and cr ops 01 tne unioi tunaie lurrererv. In confequence of a Urge reward offered by Mr: Marfhall, Mr. Fra-zer's body was found, manv miies from the wreck, by fome counti people, was ir'entifiecf by the three furviving fdilors, and wa3 (ki-cpntly interred in the: church of fpcH; 1 I A fi fh of an enormous fize was taken off the Chiffe! bank, on the fcj.ngSifh Coaft on the 15th pf Apni, ahd afterwards towed to t.ie village Ojf Portland, being entapgled in the; jpackarel nets; he is of ihe fhark. kind, and of that fpecie called the b.bttlen'ofe.fhar k.

He meafures 27 feet, from the extremity of head to tail and is iS feef at lea It iri cir-cjuinfence. Hts jaws are of that extent, as to admit the fatteft nin ever known. Twelve hoifcs and nearly 100 men were employed to dfag the monfler up-rhe bank. He i IVippofed to weight lis: tons; Before he was dead, he appeared rriottled as a common doV-iiih or park; he is to be di feci cd, when his enormous paUneh wiil cxhinit fome curious productions; and account, it is fuppofed, for ihe fear-city of fifh at Weymouth; and ihe unfuccefsful efforts of the poor fifhermen to, fupply the market Am on 2 the literary ad An'- a i a hj.e i i I 1 i a ley's prppofed expedition to Pj: ft -if one is, "we linderftand, to obt. if pofhble, fome a.irieiit Gre and Hebrew rhanufcriuis.

which that has tracey tho VeftiVes through a feries.of wni-ters from the tenth to the middle of the prefent Thev hM efcaped the troubles which aaitatd Peria under Nadir Shah, and weirc feen about fifty years 3j bv a do-, temporary of that pnnce, who defcribes them as. relics ol irnmepfe antiquity, and in family for feveral e-neratipus with a religious care, although fheir contents were pcrteFtly uninteiligible to their pofieffors. The FirftConful, having jeornt, from our public papers (fays a Lou- don print) that Mr. Fok prohofc.r to write and publiih a hiftoy of England, ha's written him a very flattering leher, in which, 7 after having loade'd him with encomfftfns on his talents and his naurotifrn. i 1 Ke makes hirn an offeror1 ijlli the; papers which France: can furniih towards the execution his' plan.

The Civil pode, itithe tion of, which the able ft in France, Tronchet, Portal is, have been'emp loved, has. been refenfed to the rirft Conful, who hs fignified hts Jp-nrohation of it. He has referred 1 the Code id-the examination of Trilunat ue Cujfation, whence it vvilP be ftnt to the Legiflative Body. 1 On Maundy Thurfd iy, his Im- perial Mcijefly, the Emperor of Germany, according to ancient cuftom, wafhed the feet of 1 -oV out men. 1 ne i t-i perform the fame cereruurv 12 old women, on accoui advancement in li'.

ages of the tk dldmenl tu t.htr amounted to hat jem viz. cjgg r'. pfy. the oi 'On How county, dauVttr cl'Capt. jolcpb qcfi li: 'I.

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