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br Mary, Boftori, BufnTfrrBj taken by the Spanifiufcargo condejjir&d. Hawk, ilSew-York, Hatt, llo. do. By field, Bolton, Kmfmau, do.do. PantfiSribo, Baltimore, Creed, taken by the iSpanilh and cleared: after-wards-ieued by the French and libell- d. . zz Schooner, Debonair, Bofton, Par forts, ta ken by the French and condemned. Juliet, Ne-YbrkHirton, do. do. Nancy, Alexandria, ,;' do. do. FRENCH 1 MATERNITY, With Additions & Amendments, PETER PORCUPINE'S PROPHECIES PROGRESSING TO COMPLETION. The JBhVHfii fliipAracabelCi, Capt. Storey, bound front Jamaica to Loudon, which put into this port u i 'd litre fs , fia'vi ng, c'a r'r ieV I away hismizen & main mails, & being f'olenkly as to require one puiup to be 'conftantly go ing, was yelleplef JBURNT in Five" Karhorn 'Hole, by a French (we hope no AaicM icau was concerned) pirate. "From fuch fraternal flames, good Lord delivrus." PORCUPINE, Not many weeks fin.ee, an American .vef fe! was fired, upon in the ITeTaware mcr, only 39 miles from Philadelphia, by-a Freiich pirate ; Peter Porcupine then offjr.T eJ a bet of one hundred dollars, that they would in fix weeks cue out pur veflels Trofu our very wharves. It really begins to look ' as if lie would win the wager if taken Up. " . ! T"r So much for preface, and now for as ac curate an accpuut of the circumltances of this f$git.mus infraction of our neutrality as we have been abit' iq gather. -V The AracabtU'.i, after having encounter ed the dittrefles of ttorms at fea, was with .the afliltance of Lighters gotten to anchor in five fathom hole on Saturday laft, where flie lay waiting for a favorable wind to get up to town, to dilcharge her cargo & get repaired. On Monday about one o'clock P. M. Mr. John Calhoun, went down to the fliip with pioyijions & other neceflaries, & dined on board with capt. Storey. While rft opmer, one of the ciew came below and defirtdi the Captain to go upon deck and look at a (mall (chooner which was handing towards thHi & had much rhe appeal ance ot a French Privateer. All hands according ly went'upon deck, & their f'ufpicions beintr increased, capt, S. ordered a' I; k pounder & three muikrts, which were all the gnus on board, to be prepared for their defence, refolntel) determined not to fulfer his vet. I 1 tn be boarded and taken from him, if it could be prevented. Capt. S. at the lame time rtqneifed Mr. Calhoun to take his bnat and reconnoitre, and let him have any information reflecting her he could ob tain. xs Mr. Calhoun k-tc the fliip in his whale boat, with two n 'at .and palled by the fcl'.otmer, which had come to anchor about four miles from the fhij. When palling be was hulled by her to know whether he was a pilot, to this he replied Drifted where Ihe v. from, and was aufwered in broken Knglifh, from Savannah, lie told them that he wa coming up to the city, and if they wanted a pilot he would fend them one, but upon hj II ttnling toward thefbip, t&ey alked what fliip tjiai was, and ordered him to comic i. hoard the fchooner. Thefe orders he dtfregarded, and notwith. Handing three u.'.fketj were fired at him, and the Ichooner weighed anchor and pur fued into fhoal water, to cut him off from the (hip, he cot near enough to hail her, defii i 1 them to be on their fcuard, and immediate, ly after came up to town, the fchooner hav ing anchored a fecund time within ainiie of the flop. Inflantly on the arrival of Mr. Calhoun in town, which w n .tlw(it 9 o'clock on Motnlru night, hit hifortnathm was lodged with the Britifh Conful, whd ferffible of the danpe roi titnvior. of th (hip, immediate') ,ic qaainted the Collator with the circumllau itejind in company with him, wrd on Governor Pii.ckney. The reprefentatmn being made, the governor, with a prompt i tude and decifton that do him the higheft honour, immediately iflued hit orders to the Commander of Fort Jnhnfton, todetarh an oflicer and ao men from his corps, on board the cutter, md with the Collector's concurrence, directed the officer of the cot ter to proceed to the Hole, and there pro tect from infult, injury or depredation, the u i in in ip i ine uein wumn me nnuii o the United States, and of this date. Thrfe orders were niven at one o'clock yellerday morninff. to the captain of the cnlln u-hnufe hjat, to be immediately com veytd tn Fort J.dmdon i but from a to i (iron - rptton of the m aency and necellity o their b-nijr immediately delivered, ihejr were not eceived by the Commander of the rort un it after 7 oMorh, nd the cotter did not t nndrr-vrnv It U til alter t ). Thefe drlayiand ihecoufeqoent inerti 9ti of ihe ovdm ftWtfi, hie occafioned the Kriflce of thU rahnhle (hip whofe cargo tnfifted of $oo hlnU fugar, rum, &e.1 and ,ected the United States to a degrdanan jta'eU-tf - , About 9, o'clock refterday moT::ir.g, tain tain By tUeypoil, in the brig Hannah, from Fenerifte, traving Mr. Delano the pilot on board, came over rhe bar, and obierved the AracaDeilii to be on tire from the ilern to fier4 main hatch; they to. the beff of tiicir know ledge at firlf obierved no ngrial flying, but jftef a few minutes faw the F'rgliih colours tiving at the Jorctopmalf, the only maff fhc had. ' About two o'clock, Mr. llufley the pilot, .coming in, obferving that the fliiphad drif ted about two miles in a S- W. direction, from the place tltat he faw her at anchor-in the't mornings that her laft mat! was gone, and tiiatflie was afhore on theFolIy breaker; went to fee whether he could give her any aniltance ; getting'near her he obferved her all in flames,, her larboard fide burnt to the water's edge, her decks burnt and fallen in, cable burnt cloie off and -no living perfon on board, and the Haines proceeding with a violeiiee'tbat'WooM--bo-l-evenothinjrtcr be leen- The iea was running fo high at the tune, as to render it -impbfhble to get on board. Mr. H. on Monday evening faw the pilot bont fchcouer run into the Hole,, and Die vyas feen under way yellerday morning near the fhip Handing out to fea. " We fear much, fppm thedeiciiption of the '.boat that fhe has -wot been vry long out of an American port, . , The molt diitreflinc circuniftance in this tale is the uncertain fate of, the captain ani people w ho weneon board of the fliip : no certain tidingj of them. were had yerter i day ; the reports were .various., funis negroes who where but nfliingy fa id that, a lioat-was feen goi n g from t he ihip in the morning aft ter fhe was on fire, fo the Light Houie If- land, and that feveral people were h en on the beach. We hope that this may be fo; but from the determined rehitance of capt Storey and his people, it is to be feared, tlwit they have met with a worfe fate ; per- naps thev have been butchered. Capt. By the wood, Mi Calhoun and Mr, Delano have made affidavits df What came within their knowledge. Our allies can proceed on.ly one degree farther to reach the tlimax of their over bearing infolence. Let them come next up rr DurTery wharves, and cut away and burn Anierican veflels tiie faonif thebet ter cut out our revenue cutter, the guardian and protectrefi of our trade ; take her -away to Point Pet re or Ct. A u guff ine, and (ee if there be a poflibility of their beating a ftnrit of re fentmcnr, and a fenfe of fliame into'our Federal Legiflature, who laugh at frigates and cutters, at a time when pilot boats come into our harbours and burn fhips, re'gardleft of our power or will to pnnilh the fiollilify. We learn that the collector has made t, very handfomr reprefentation ot ihe-facjs to the Head of the Treafury Department, & rcqueftcd that a complete cutter mount- nig 20 gtifif mny be expeditioufly piovided, a it is impcuihie to judge how foun our wharves may be attacked. It f'een.s tha: a roll of fire, is a neceflary EQUIPAGE for vefleUfti our ports. txtracl of a letter from a "grntlrtnan at Nd.Tau, New.Pro.vidence, io his friend here, dated beptenber 16, 1 794 " IV e have lately very providentially ef cafed a mc1 l.ellijh pktA parcel of Trench negroes wn have been captund and fold here, and vjI.o I ad rurnfioa) f- 'im thi ir totters, en tered into a coifedtracy (ak'.ut thirty in num oerj to turn the tourn find make d gtr.t rul molfure of tpe whites. Trty had the promife oj a great Many (laves to jrAn them immedi ately on their beginning the htrrid bufinefs. Their fcheme could not have been better plan' nedby any Jet of ment and would und'Uibt tdly have occafrmed an innnenje blot.dfl.-ed had they" carrud it into iffeel ; but one of them wfy hud been compttlcd to take the oath, di vulged the fetret to his mojler a few hours before the maflacre was to fiaye begam A party ' men were immediately collected and Jrnt after the villains,' unly a ftw had yell The. 'Pofl: bttwrea V'il mine ton and Char'eflon,. via Georxre-1 own, w ill comoaenie OQjbe nt of iSovembtr or the polt day after) at d continue, to o weekly. affcmbleJ; five if them Were taken; the pi iu ipol i wglaadci s made two of that num be-; they were all condemned, and threi executed ; the other two will Jhare the fame fate in a day or two. The principal ring leader was a notorhus fellow in the dreadf ul bufinefs of St, Domingo, who met his fate with the greatefl compofure and rejignathn, fnymgt as he approached the place of execu tion, that he was .content to die, as he had murdered many a white man in his time, u We are in daily expedathn of peace which is moI ardently wifhed for by all honeH men. Poll of Wilmington. ENTERED Stoop Two Brothers, Whitfitld, Norfolk, Batchtlott Street, Bermuda. Ship Clermont t Bar toll, I her pot. Mars, M Cork e 11, New-Urk. Brig Tciegraphe, M'Krnme, CharleOon. CLEARED Sloop Catharine, Blair, Baltimore. Brig Neptune, Bernard, Cuadaloupe, Prudent, Williams, St 7 hornet's r.v- L f a r r -uniK i HE Detachment of Seven Thoii- X .iv.A Tw o Hunt fee and Sixty-Eight Men, to be draw ti irotn the Militia cf this State, are to be ...arranged into '1 wo Eri ;ades, ct.n.mar.Jed by a Major General and two Bvigudiers: Major General WiU iiain R. Davie, is appointed to take Com ittjanu at 'he Detachment drafted under my ouiers of the ill .of, Sept.. laft , and Uriga oier General Martin Artnflrong, and Bri rjjadier General Stephen Moore will con. fider hcmlyives as appointed On duty, in the Detachment, ; and receive his orders a:otuing!y. Major General Davie will illue the. neceflary orders, ai d take the. Ofofi effect ual meafures ibbave the Detath'i ment complf ated and the retiirns made as loon as poHibie. S AMUEt, ASHE, Captain General and Comman der in Chief in ,-nd over th.' Hate of North -Carokna. Koer Moore, A. D. C. Raleigh, Oct. 12, 1797. I M P o"k "t'E D From I 0 N D 0 N, And for Sale at the Store lately occu pied by C-ebre Huoper & Co. ery low for Cafh, . A very General AflGrtment of G 0 O f D S, Suired to t lie Sgafotfjf miibng wbicli are the KITosying Articles. White and coloured Plains, White Napt Negro Clojihing, . Bears Skins, Supern.te at;d Inferor Cloths, Double mitl'd Drab cloth for great coats, Fafhionable Waiftcoat Pattenu, .White arid Red Flannels, Striped Swaufi.ujs, .., v. ' Wotru n'sX'loth Clojks, rWmiuys, Caliimaiicucs, Wildborcs aiwT uther Stuffs, lo!e and Duliel Blankets, Lead, Shott, bait Pctre, Guns, Powder, 4 1-2, ' & . 6 Inch Mill. Hope, Cullice, Suar, Rum &e. 8fc, b. W. TIIACKER. Wilmington, Ocl 26. V O R S A L K ft the r intivg-Ofjice, Wilmington, Blanks Books ot different kinds, Superfine Letter Paper, CoThmon diuo, Wiitinjtdo. Quills, Wafers, ice. October 19. Public Auclwn. i THE fuhfenber propofes to do fame Uupnefl the enliung feafon, lit the Vendue and Commission line. He will therefore receive all kind of Produce and Merchandile ether for priv.itt or public f-le Will hire out Nc groes, and -ii.it Matters of veflels and Su. percargoes in the ditpofjl and purclule of their cargoes, on application' Attention and put&uality may he relied upon. A. JOCELYN. OQobcr 2jf 4 if -A WARNING. A PRACTICE has exified for fever;.! year, 0' cutting and curving away, Mthctn prrtniHii.n, frcm :).e latds ol my Million plsntation, fir r-wood, lnbp-polei, ?ud timber of every kind is ihele lands do not produce more of any cf thole arti cles than is equal to the neceflary confump. tion thcieul on laid plantation, 1 am con drained to jrive notice to my neighbours (in and out of town) that this practice will no longer be allowed; and to requell them to give dire&ioni to their fervints accord mrly : every future inllante of it will be treated at a treipaft. W. H.- HILL. Oclober 26. 43 tf FOUND O Y a negro womm under my houfc JL on Sunday laft the 22(1 inlt I n$M do.ible Ikiried faddle. faced with velvet. The owner may have it by proving pro perty, paying the expence of this adverulr. ment and nivin a fmall rward to the kn- der CHRISTOPHRH DUDf-F-Y. W ilmintou, 26th OUubrr. BARGAINS. To be Sold by PUBUC AUCTION, a (t Court Houfc m II ilmtngion, on the m. day of the enfuing Term cf toe Supcsor Court, 4lj:oUmnng defer iked V At U ABLE 'LA N as, ', formerly fht popertf ef Jdm Rttwasu lij 'q . deeeafea,- viz, 640 Acres on 1 North fide of the North weft River, joining lands formerly owned by Goodwin Klletfon, detd. 291 Acres joining the above and below, on lands of John Hall, Efq. j2cT Acres on the South fide of the Rivet joining the fame, on John P. Graty. 400 Acres joining the lame, beginning at 77 , tfielfinuth of Woods creek and iuti ning down the river. 500 Acres on Alegator branch, between. he North. weft Road and IUver. 500 Acres joining the above, and near Mrs. Williams' on Woods creek. Alfo, the MILL-LANDS. Containing 2120 Acres by Patents and Deeds, with one tr more very valuable Seats, the advantageous fitnatien of which is too well known to require a furihcr tie fcription, Terms will be made know n on the day of fale. BENJAMIN $MfTH. Oft. 26. T O B E S O fTSi ON the Firft day of Jaruary next, if fair, if notthe firft fair day, EignT valuable country born NEGRO LS, be. longing to the Eftateof the bte Col. Swn, among them is an excellent Cooper, a Carpenter, and a young negro" Fellow who has worked with a Carp.enter,tvo Wo men who are pripie hands in the Field or i n the Houfe, two very likely Girls,one about 13 years old, and the -ot Iter 7. They are well dilpoled and not fold for any fault, but to pay debts. There is alfo a negro Man about 60, who is well tiled to "i ur pentine, and for his age valuable; thry are all a "family of negroes except the laft mentioned and a young Wench, which woman we can fell at any time at private fale. Any perfon inclined topurchafe, may lee her and apply 10 ns. The f'amilv of negroes are at prefent hired to MeiTr;, Ifaacks and Levy m Wilmington, ami n;a be feen there. MILDRED SWAN. Adr'. FR El). JONES, Adm'r. Cel. 26. HAl WOOD'S REPORTS. PROPOSALS For Printinc by Subscription, A Volumn of Reports of Cafes adjudged tr, tie Superior Courts of North-C arolinajroin tl year 780, to the pteji nt time By John Haywood, one of the Judges ol the Superior Courts f Law and Ecpiit) . L u N u I tl JONS. I. It will be printed in a hmdlomc oc- tavo volumn. on a beautiful type, and "-od paper. It will contain upwards li 500 pa;et Price 5 dollars. II. It will be committed to prefs as ."i.i js coo UoUnbtTb nre nhUirud. III. They will be delivered at rirher of tfic following town?, as fliall be ddircd by the luhltrtbeis, viz, Charlotte, Salil bury, Salem, Hiilfborough, Watrentnn, l-ouiburg, .leigli, fayettc's'le, Wil-4 mington, Newbern, Wafliington, Edc. ton and Huifaski IV. "2 hole who fubferihe for fix copirf. (hall be entiilcd to a It tenth gratis. Halifax,. oept. 1 797 Ej2r Not i c e. THE Copartnerfliip betwixt Georhb HoOPEft and John Ingram, mer chant!, was diflolved on the 7th of lulv Of 9 laft, by the event of the death of the lat ter. As 1 he re is an abfolute nectflity for fet- ltnot fpeedily as poll. hie the aflatrs of laid Lopartnerflup, all thole indehtvd to the eftahlifliinent in Wilmington, under the firm of Grorgf. Hoopr and Co. are requeued to diltharge the fame ; and Inch ai nave ocinanu ag.iii 11 taio nrm, or wnn whom there are open iccmints, trr defsred 10 exhibit the lame for payment of liumda. tlon. 1 he flock of Drv Goods tn hand, trn. lifting of fmall (Tort ment of articles c 1 failed to the trade of this place, are f laleai alfo the HriR FAIR AM FT. J. CAN, about 120 tons bin then, in cm., piett repair, and ready lor receiving carco. Arplv to GEORGE rfOOl BR, Surviving ( ( i.artner Wilmington, Oct. 5, 1 707 V n 1 ;:V1 i ,
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