nvro frigates trader the land, " ad .a fresh:
aignal for men of war, and transports' soon
.'appeared; but last night Lord Gardiner is
saidtp have written to Lord Cork that se
veral of our vessels had come into the . har
bour from England, and bad not seen" any
ships at sea; and Lord Gardiner, it is re
ported, teemed to think.it was a rotre a
larin: but a frieate or two and a hooker,
which had been sent to reebnfioitre, are not
, vet, according to the ntwiw "."
5t u now fmir o'clocki returned, nor has a
yeomanry yet come back, who was aent by
1nr . to where me siKimin'0k i
tema P-reatlv subsided, and it is generally
beliVed thewhole-priginated from-aome-
mistake of the sienal-post at Knockadonie,
which is the roost eastern one we have.
There bas been no express by land, and one
mav suDOose that there would have been
many, if the enemy had been, two days ago,
close in with the coast. 'I suppose our ships
at ftjntrv Bay have tutr to sea, and we have
had five of the line and a frigate there on the
21st.
The greatest lovalty was manifested on
the occasion by the puaaantry, and every
' descripti6nof people.
. NF.W-YORK. Anril 9.
'Gazette d' Haiti Capt. Boyer, of the
f.h'r Harriot, from Cape Francois, yci:
terday obligingly handed us a regular file
from its o -nrnericement to the 2?J tilt,
of the Gizttlt PiYttique and CtmrAtr dale
a" Haiti, printed " at the ;Capc, by P.
Rmx, printer to the Emperor.'' The e
ditor flates 'that the paper is rublilhed
under the aiifpice ot his excellency the
general of divifion Vcrnet, miniller ot fi
nance's.! ... Xhe moito is appropriate,
L'hjujfici a ia fin -frtdwti Thdtptndtnce.
' , , , i . . Vol t .
Thefc papers are almo'rV etvirely filled
wt'h extracts from Er.glilh and French
prims relative to E.nopean affiirs, and
articles from the American, rtfpefling the
civil tranfaclions of this country, tfpe
. cially with regard to our relations with
St. Domingo. The editor fcldo n indul.
ges in remark." A a Cample, however, we
miT ive the following : The great in
ie;e!ts which the American merchants find
in the (commerce of this country, guaran-
. .1 . .
.. ICC JU US I IICII pcllCTCIHnvr in vviimiiuiii
"".it. And whatever Mr, Eppes and his
partizans may'fjy, the. empire of Haiti is
independent, and conuins in iifclf the
power of prcfervit.g this inV:j-cndence -
in laborious inhalants r.avc procured
jor themfeUe?, hy the richrcfa ot their
culture, means fu'ncicnt tor defence, of
whuh the valor vi its lVdicrs know how
to profit. Ab 've all what have we to
fer from 'he aMrtrpts of our enemies ?
He who hs conquered -hem with fomuch
glory, is he not at the head of a D imerous
" army, of men hardened- by misfortune,
and who for the moll parr, have been per
fonally viflims ot long and cruel perfects
tin, which they thctnfclves have to re
venge." " -
The Gazette i lUU't i f the 2tft u!t.
coatiins a p!ic: cm rent," tut which wc
luwt fcUit:J the Mh'A.n.: ariclcs i
there or not y1 but wis lulet as Far as
bisobfervation went. It was reported at
Malaga ttut the EngHfh fleet that had for
Tome time blockaded Cadiz was. with
drawn. ' ,
NEWBEkN, April 47.;!. ;'
On Monday laft, agreeably o notice
previoufly given, the Stockholder ot the
Ncwbern Bank, met tor the-purpoie 01
electing eleven Directors ; when the fol
lowing gentlemen were chofen t
John Harvey, Edward Pafteur, Wil.
liam Shepard, John Devereux, ijames
M Kin!iyr Ifaac Taylor, Alexander Tor
ranee, Samuel Chapman, John Stanly
Brytn Whitfield, 'fVanci X. Miriin. 4,
The Dircclors met on Wedncfday, and
appointed James f M'Kinliy, Prcfident,
and fixed the falary of the Caihier, at'diie
ihoufand dollars a year--the next day
William Shepard was chofen Cathier. In
confequence of the appointment of Mr.
Sneuard. Francis Hawks, was chofen a
1 .
Ui lector in his room.
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From reheated declarations of a
person that Accompanied the post-
rider. & who said he had contract-
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tt was asserted in last week's pub
lication that the present Contract
or of the horse mail between this
town and Fayetteville, had refus
ed to carry the Gazette to its sub
scribers on the road, &c. . Xln
editor has since discovered the fact
to be olhenoise than as related by .
the said person, and that the con
tract was made by Duncan M'Rac,
Esq. vf Fayettevitley to whom vo
allusion was intended iwthaf publi
cation; Jor inasmuch as tlw friend
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serviceable to the printer of a nevus-
pir, that gentleman is entitled to
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merits.
editors warmest-acknowlcig
At an e'tfticm 'xA onEHer MotJay
thriiihot Aptii, ihe lolloping gculc
men were duly clecled as Vcltiymei of
St. James's Chnr.h in ihis tiwr,, tor the
pick-lit year, viz. Glmi. Beij-iiuih Smith,
MtlLs. Robert c-tt, Julia W Hikings
John Scott, John A'lan.
Testerdjf arrived the brtfr Fitto'v, Lewis, 14
das f'em Martinique. On the 2id cf Abnlt
vjf Ihminica, spoke the brig Recovery, Banner,
of U'jihingtm, N. C. brand to Scu-Vsrk. Tne
French jtctl st.ilrd frcm ?jrt Rtyal ub.nit tin
'i I st Wwch ; and a fen i.;ts bcfjrt cait. Leus
ijiU-d, it :ivt rtptrtfd that a ui her French Jet
liadarrtv:d tj'eeu,.'d, a id fh.-i the Roci.JtJrt
I .f hal tailed tjjj:n them. .... .
r.ABF.LAM tails us of a torf of one PHI
pot I'lacut, who l.in brisk and hale, f.ll
dead us he w p.ijf in; .in tVi iolt ; which
pjtlnpi cause .many, b.iys he, not to pay
thc.r's for fear of the like accident.
IMPORTANT tf Taoi.
ain M ori fun, ar rived at Philadel
phia, frcm the bay uf Honduras, was, on
the 4th tit. inlat, 30 long 76. brought
to by a French armed fch'r who took capt.
M. on board, threatened him for not leav
ing to as foon as in fighrv. The lieutenant
of the fchooner, in the ab fence of the cap
tain, informed capt. M. that foe -was a
national fchooner 28 days from France,
was bound for St. Domingo with dif
patches; and after that, to cruiie in the
Gulph ; tha, pre vious to failing, a French ,
and Spanifh fleet of 34 fhips of the line,
and a found er of gun boats, had made a
Jrfctnt on Gibraltar, AN DCA RR1ED
, IT ; and that another French fictt had
failedfrom. France, in order to capture1
all the Briiilh Weft-India Iflands ; and
further, that a B.ritifh 74 had been loft on
the Mai inella reef.
From the Raleigh Register. .
The following is the translation of tht
speech of tieneral Ferrand, to the soldiers
and inhabitants, on the "walls of St. Domingo,
in presence of the brigands :
Frtiich Soldier Sj- and inhabitants of St. Bo-'
mingo. . .'
Tt iVhere you must remain ; it is here you
must e ther fight or perish it is here that
the '.all-powerful' Cod has marked out the
place fcr vengeance it is here you ought
to revenue the manes of your fathers, mo
uther, sisters, wives, children and. friends,
who all perished by blood thirsty hands by
the m jater who surround us ? It is here
that you ouhl to shew what the valor of
a chosen few are able to perform against a
numbur of assassins it is here where the
field ii chaiked out for victory ! ' V
"Do not be alarmed at those cannibals j
they appear only. here strong by treacherous
.Tn-.trder aguiuai .those who are not able to'
defend themst Ives But what can their nu
tuerous cohorts do against brave soldiers
and u place .fortified -by - nature, ar.d art?
"Soon you will sec tin in dispersed and fall at
the foot cf these ramparts.
They will perhaps tell you that tht-y Jiave
conquered evci y town inSt. Domingo, thouih
they were forlifidd and defended' by very
'brave troops. Pure, illusions ! 'They only
conquered those towns which were surren
dered to them by treachery and treason.
rNoiie sure "was taken bytrueTofccrCxcepl"
St. Jt) ; which, though ill fortified and de
fended by a handful of inhabitants, has shewn
what vulor could do against such -enemies."
iglLtcenJiundred.jpQho
bit the . dust, and we6hall soon give a goed
account of the remainder of their army.
Inhabitants of 15 1. Domingo, I do not know
ifyour misfortunes can bear a comparison to
the direful necessity vthich forces us to give
. battle, having no place for a retreat ; on one
side turroui.dtd by the brigands, on the 0
ther hy the sea ; having not one single vessel
eitlie11 to fly or escape to no other alterna
tive cflti'x but victory alone. I repeat it a-g-iin,
it in here you must pcriihor conquer !
Have courage no let us fight, and victory
will be our lot.
epen, fot the importation of provilfortV;
but in " or der tf be ad;n i t r ed f t he v ni't
procure a paflport froitt the ttfeiiwc
Spanilh Confuls refiding in the Ua ted-State.
A gentleman who on Fridai 1al
arriveJ in town from Porto Rico, (fays
the New-York Gazette of the i8ih nir.
informs that juft before he failed,-a packet
arrived here in eighteen days from Corun
Siat, bringing a file of Madrid G.ucrtes,
one of which (fated, that Buonaparte has
confented to Moreau's taking the com-'
rnahd of the Spanifh army that he had
beetv-fentj-wuh tevcraM' renclKngmcers,
1
d). tvr. fot
Jj. tjvaredj.
A,-nl 19.
' A Frf Vh pjT.ner, who atrited here
vcfrrdy I n the b.ii Lio-. o I '4 djyi
f nmSt.Thomts iairm! il at the French
fl -e lu.l UiUd f.om Furt Roy. I, ttd,inc
in ih? Cl y wl St Domingo, wi'h.2000
ironps o be UnkA at thai p'ace. No
I cv lu.l reavhtd bi Thoma of a feco d
Fiem-h fqu.lron hivicg arrited the
Writ Inhe,Jcr of the Crtalh fquadron
nr.Jcr Admiial Coclvrano.
We understand that Mr.Bjrcl.iy, the Bri
lUh conscl. h received positive orders Irom
?lr. Merry, not tu attach his certificates to
iny notarial act. accomp-nyinj any trills of
ld;ngat'.d invoices of property.
PHILADELPHIA, Ap-il If.
. YtUuday rin.d, oi j; ll.ui, captain
Tt. fiom M ii i, whu h he 'eft ihe 3 1
Mitch, where om ot the French fru
v.ho ainriel in taking a part nt th
K ;'u1j conv'y froMiWa, arrived li t
l'it hhI -f Feb. Ihe brought in a num.
I er f the Biiiifti ptifncr an lfcni them
1 Gibraltar "in a Ciriel. Capf. Fells
l4i the French fleet had failed from Ton.
)!'!, nJ it was ICfOtlfd ihcv hit paired
ihe Itraivhtt a.d wete joined by 1 nti'iibrr
f , Si jut ih fhlp. while at Malaga,
l,Kh Ik onlv Co milei IrottGihraltar, he
I', o n. iU bend t the alfeinblins of ilie
tn:fh tiihtpi in the neiglbanihootl of
(itUulur; hu heard of no attack, or of
i-r hivino co in me need the firce. He
'pa ted Gibraltar in the i;1il, fa thai bo
.ii r.jt fei Vhciher tjcit wai a fleet
Yesttrdw, arrived here, the brig Malia,
cap'. Saur.dcri, from the Mediterranean.
lie intorm that a Ilict oflhirty sail of merch
antmen, from Malta for England, undercon-
tor of the Arrow sloop of war, ofl3guns,
cpt. Vincent, and a bomb brig a'ntut the 1st
!! iL.! I..I.M.I-. I'll
1 CiinMry, ncjruic itioiiMwi irica, ws lOiietl
i 1 with by t vo French frigates, and after an
engagement of one hour, ihe English sloop
of war blew up,, the bomb biig was captured
u a considerable pirt of the convey. About
mn sail of the l itter had arrived at GibraU'
tar previoui to his lenving that fortress. j
It is pro'iable. front the weakness of the
convoy, and ihe fleet Weinj bnind from MjIu
to r.ni'lind, that they convstcd principally of
empty, honwr bound trnports. Tho
the Arrow rates at an 18 gun' sloop or war,
she mounted SO gons Boston paper.
AMERICAN CONSULATE.'
Jlataima, March 30, 18 )5.
circular J
SIR,
For th inhrmi'i'iti nf th? merchanii
and mhrrtbf your lilh ic an.lci'V, I em.
brace this opportunity ofTwrir-g this mo.
ntrntio infirm you, thai ihe pons of. Ha
vanra and Si. Jaeo de Cula, are now
open f.ir the a-. minion of all kihdtof pro
1 lion and dry frnl, kc. in ninral
pom, rn the fame terms and conduioni
1 during the late war.
( fends ru copies of the decreet hire
with enc'ofc'J
A am Sir,
Vrrv lefpeQ fully,
Your rr fl orient frrvin',
VINCENT GRAY.
Tht Cantor tht Cuilomtor '
tht f ott ef f,Ulj.kia. S
P. S. Duty at prtfeni 31 I 1 per cent,
but about tu be reducci iaimediaicly.
An Englifli privateer. fchooner h s bern
cruifing of SamU-Hook, N - Y. tor
foiirdavs. Shi boards all veifcTs going
out or coming into N. York ; ;u,d 011
Sjtnrday 'alt the fired fix (hois at the
fchoonec In hitlry, from S?ava"nah,. one.
of wiiiili went through her mainfi !. W e
hvr not Icarne I her name; but undrr
ftand llie ii from NewProvi!encc, whence
th: failed two months ago. She is a vrry
l:iia,U ttifd, w ith a Crew 0136 men only.
Mcr. Adv.
Rrbert Williams, Esq. of Pockginham
county, in this state (formerly the-Hcrescn
tame of thai district in Congress) halcen
appointed (igvernor of the Mississippi terri
tory. ThW appointment was concurr ed in by
the Senate before the adjournment of Con
gress; but we have not yet heard whether
Mr. Williams has accepted of it.
Abraham Collins, of Lincoln county, in
lhiiHitcTtthrtui long" betlOus peeled "of
counterUiting 11 .ink Notes and other paper
money, was lodged in lftUsborough goal on
the 9th April. Benjamin Doiscy, Lewis
Hunter, Lai kin Sawyer, James 1'l.ighorp,
and Ceorge Hindal, 'were alo apprehended
as accomplices, but admmiltcd lo bait.
These persons were taken ly a Mr. Aber
crombic, employed for that purpose by Ihe
Directors of th: Itianch it.ink at Saannh.
their trials w ill come on at our June Federal
Court.
A person of the name of Slain was triei at
IlilUboroiigh Superior Court fur hnrsrslcal
It .. . .
Z, ana convictcu. jic is tam 10 ne an ol4
olTciuUr.
We are informrd by a pcntlrman immedi
ately from the Creek Nation, that ColoiJl
Hawkins has, since the rejection of the late
treaty, declare! that iheprovision in the trea
ty which made the stock tttmftroblt was a
mistake. He also informs that aevcralofttse
most intelligent chiefs bad rone in einlore
Upper Louisiana, for the purpose of pitching
upon a country for which they will exchange
their present possessions j and that the rnm
mon conversation cf Ihe Indians turned
the plan they must adopt to remove the oil II
ana inunn oparu paper.
to reconnoitie the ground mod favurahle
for ercfling fortiftcatioiis for beficging
Gibraltar, and that he hid informed his
Catholic ' Ma jetty, that if Ihe would fur
nifh him an army of 60,000 men, he won d
forfeit his life if he did not take Gibraltar.
This army was immediately granted, and u
the attack was to commence without de
lay." -
Charleston, April 29.
. Gsptalr, Allkn,' arrived on Saturday
in 16 d;ys fiom Nevis, informs, tlat a
Britilh fket of fix fhips ot the line and
frigates, pa fled that place on the 8h ind.
On the hrft appearance of this fret tha
town was thrown into great confufion,
as it was fuppofed to be the. French fleet
on a return vifit, but the inhabitants wtic
fiion undeceived in anfwer to their fii nala
on the forts the fleet hoisted the Britifh
foe,, fired a gun to leeward, and continu
ed her courfe. A fmall cutter went (ut
and fpoke.one'of the fhips they tt quiud
for the French fleet, and informed tl at
tlitir fquidron was. compofed of one halt
'ot a ffret of 12 fail, from Europe, and if.it
the other half had been left to windwatd,
cruifing off St.' Vincents.
Capt. Rnfs, from Point Peter, informs
that the F rem h" fleet touched at BafTaterre,
Gtnd. U-upe, about the firlt inft. and had
pnneeded, it wasfuppofed, fot Jrori-Koyal,
Martiniqilc. . r-
April 30.
London act cunts to the 5th March have
been received "by the ihx Aniphlon, ih"4f
day from Greenock. No event of great
importance had occurred since the preced
ing dates from Europe. Under the London
head of March 4, it is stated that no lesa
than nine Hamburgh mads remained uuer
their detention was attributed lo the seve
rity of the weather. The loan raised for
England the present year is statid to be-
f ST 1 1
.u,uuu,you ior irtiana, tnree ana a nair
million one million of which was to bo .
raised in Ireland. A report was in circula
tion that the Cape of Cood Hope had fallen
into the hands of the English but not any
thing appears to entitle it to full credit.
Ihe fever had entirely subsided at Gibral
tar: No serious disposition had been ma
nifested by the Spaniards to attack that
fortress. According to late letters frcm the
continent, Gen. Moreau was not to be
suffered to depart from Spain, for America,
I.... - . 1 1 . ' , . 1 r . -
uui witi iu oc uciaincu in inc lornier king
dom. A new constitution for the Batavun
Republic, it is ataled, has been sent from
Paris, and- M. Schimmelpfnkikck is to La
placed nt the bead of the government. It
is of little consequence what form of govern
ment is given to the Dutch province -under
any form, they will remain at present
noye other .than subjects of 1)i;on apart.
The ministerial majority in the British
House of Lords, is stated lo be 73 in the
House of Commons, 2c T. A bill for the
aliolition of the slave trade has been lost in
the British I!oue of Commons.
The Spanifh Confol, fa the United
Si airs, refi ling In Philadelphia ir.formi
ihe Merchants in the United Stairs', that
ih; pirt of S.. A uflinc, in FlaiiJa, it
In our last we mentioned the capture of
the ship Eliza of this port ; since then we
have heard some further particulars which
excite very considerable alarm for the safety
of commerce pacing near the island of
Cuba.
v-r'-"- " nvor inrce weeks
with hiacrewuiKin the Me ol Tines, on
w.Vich tkere are but two inhabitants ; du.
ringthit time he aubsisted upon roots ; a..4 ,
at length got to Cuba on a raft constructed
by themselves.
On bis arrival at the Hatannabe appli
edto the American Consul who informed
him that thee wss no bope of redress from
the Spanish government ; that similar in
stances of outrage occurred every week.
That plan of deprrdation is reduced to a
system; the piratea sally out from the small
ports of Cuba, and having tktn a vessel,
they put the crew ashore at some distance,
lard the cargo, and immediately sink or
burn the veisel
Wo art not authorised to tay that mir
government Is informed of these transac
tions ; we br.pe that is not, as we are cn
willing to believe such insult and injury
could be submitted to from any nation.
That the Spanish government U rejnni
blc there cannot be the smallest doubt and,
lo the Unite! Slatei it it prrcitely ihe tats
thing whether suffer because thai natiorv
isnnsble or unwilling to PuouUtba agcniS
wu-XrJJk Udgtr. !
We are ttdd, from auiKoriiy ssblch can
not juflify ui ic doubting in luhenilciiy,
that a very lengthy and fcriout foirefpon
dence it now going onbetween Mr. Mtr.
s n, the Urmfb minllcr, and Mr. Kiff
I' J. Secretary at Suit! on the fubicci l