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(VOL. I.) (NUMB. 48.Jf AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. ■ W THURSDAY, February 19, 1789. RAN AWAY, ■tfii r-». !V From the Subferiber’s plan tation, fourteen miles above Wilmington, . Three Negro Men, Vi. z% C UFFE, about thirty five years old, country born, fix feet high, tolerably ffout made,^thar clofe kneed ; he will endeavour to pafs ^4^ free man and fhip carpenter, and en deavour to (hip himfeif on board fome velfel bound cither-to Nova-Scotia or the Bahamas. SAMPSON, a well fet black fellow, about twenty-feven years old, country born, five feet eight or nine inches high, fl:amnr;ers when inclined to fpeak f?)^ :-it is^probablc he is lurking about Town Creek, in Brunfwick County. HARRY, a Aim fellow of middle age, very fmall limbs, formerly belong ed to the elfatc of Mr, Shubrick, of South-Carolina 5 it is fuppofed he will go that way. TEN POUNDS REWARD will be given, with all rcalonablecxpences, for each of the above mentioned (laves, when delivered to the fubferiber. John P. Williams. February 10, 1789. 47—49 ' - For^Sale, . The S oH I P CHARMING POLLY, For S^e, Lying in this River, W ITH all her tackle and apparel as (he came from fca, burthen aibout 240 tons. For terms, apply to the fubferibers, where an inventory of her materials nwy be feen; P. Mangeon & Co , Wilmington, Feb, 5. 46— By the Subjeriber^ at hi^SUore in Market^ ftreett oppofite the Naval^Office^ M aderia, Sherry, TcncrifFc, 1^ W I N E S, Port, and Malaga Weft-India6c Ncw-fengland Rum, Brown Sugar, Cotton Cards, Pickled Salmon. ® Wilmington, Feb. 4. TO BE SOL b, By Henry ;Dayton, , *1 i-' At his Store in Market-Street, By Wnoi^ggiAL^, W EST INDIA RUm7 New-England ditto, MolaflTes, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Coffee and Chocolate, Gin and Brandy, Powder and Shot, A fmall afTortment of Pewter, A few calks Cordials, &c. Wilmington, Jan. 29. 45— 1“ AMERICA. N E W-Y O R K, Jan. 31. The Captain of an Atnerican veflel, lately arrived here from Georgia, gives us a certainty, that be brought here paf fenger, a captain who aflured him, that d ’ring his lart voyage, to tlie Weft-Indies, he found loft upon the reefs of Turk’s Ifland, the King of Spain’s Brig L’lnfanta, (commanded the three laft years by the French captaiti Lanefel) then command > £d by the lieutenant of the Spanifh navy La Madrie, who fail ed from this harbour laft Odheber for the Havannah ; that the faid captain received on board his veftel the laid lieutenant and - his crew, and carried them to Barralou, in the iftand of Cuba,- for vvhich ftrvice he received three hundred rix dollars. Yefterday arrived thefhip William, Hayes, from Liverpool; Brig Edward, Sims, Briftol, in 63 days j and- fluop Friend- ihip, Eldridge, Wafhington, N. C. Among other curious natural produflions prefentsd to Mr. PEALE’s AMERICAN MUSEUM, in Philadelphia, fince his late arrival in Baltimore, are the following A Fifti of the South Sea, 4 feet long, and not more than 4 Inches iti the girth, the head and eyes difpreportionatdy large, ^ and the jaws fet within finglc row of very ftiarp teeth~and^ fundry beautiful fpecimens of Coral—By Captan Daniel Howlen. The Salamander of Africa—The Trumpet Fifh—and » remarkable Fifh commonly called the Squib—By Dr. KeOrl. A piece of Cryftal, dug out of Mr. Chriftopher Raborg’s cellar, whofe diameters, when entire, wrefe 4 inches by 3; a good inftance of the largenefs of the (hoots of American Cryftal—By Mr. Chriftopher Raborg. TS|p jaws and Tail of a Shark, 17 feet long, and 7 feet in the girth. The Jaws extended, meafured 6 feet round, where the teeth are fet—By Meffrs. Mcleherand Keener. A Grinder, of the non defeript Animal of the Weftem Coun- try, found at the Big Bone Salt Lick and weighing four pounds —By Mr. William Lux. PETERSBURG, January 29. A Cap.ain of a Guinea (hip is'-dffovv In jail in London, and under profccution at expence of the fociety eftablifticd In this vcity for the abolition of the Have trade, on account of having cruelly treated and maimed a number of Englifo faliors uneJur his command. 1 he fame commander has perpetrated futh barbarities on the inhabitants of Africa, as arc too Ihotkii g for the public eye.—The following inftance, which has already been produced in evidence, by the London fociety, before t!'.e privy council, will be brought by the fame focitty(togethcr with numberlefs other umilar inftareesJbefore the Houfe of Com mons. A young negro woman, with her infant at her brea-'r, was kidnapped away from her hufband and parents, and offer ed, by the dealers in human flefo, to this commander for fak i He was willing, he faid, to purchafe the ycung woman, but he could do nothing with ihc brat. Hoever' as they could net be feperated, he purchafed them both. At the fame time de liberately dafhed out the brains cf the infant cm the deck of tl;3 (hip, and threw it overboard in the mother’s prefeoce.—As fou was a young woman of uncommon beauty, in lefs than an hour (he was dragged by the captain to his bed, and compeli- cd to endure the crobraces of her child’s murderer. ExtraB of a letter fro-.n London^ Kcv. 13. “ The King has been for fome tin;e greatly indifpofed ; Hie pbyficians fay the difordcr is an anafarca. It lias totally depriv ed him of his fenfes, anti he is conlined in a ftraight vvalftj. coat. There is fome talk of appointing a Regency, but Ic puzzles aill the politicians and lawyers to determine by whom the appointment is to be made, as the King’s imbecility renders him incapable of afienting to any aft of Paiilamcnt, and with out fuch alFcnt no ftatute can be enadted.” SAVANNAH, January On Saturday the zyih December laft, bcing the Sr. John the Evangtlift, ard general Ccmmunicatien of Free and Accepted Mafons^ the grand lodge met at brctlicr Cepp’s 1 rom, where the right worffiipful James Jackfon, Efq. jnriall ed grand maftcr of all mafuns in this Hate, to which office iic had been previcufly eleaed, and w.^s invefted in due form with the grand mafter’s jewel. T he werfhipful Sir Get ree riourton deputy grand maOer, Thomas Elie, Efq. f nior grand waideni ■ Samuel Stirk, Efq. junior grand warden, with the other era-d officers loi the current year, were likewife inverted with the in- figni i of their offices, and exhorted by theerand mafter, in warm and affeftionatc terms to a pointed difeharge of then relpec- tive duties. ^ The different lodges having joined the grand lodge, the p,oft worftnpml William Stephens, F-fq. part ?rand mafter, received the thanks of the grand lodge for prclidirg in the chair lor two years, and was politely prertnted with an elegant mafonio jew'el, voted by the grand lodge ar a teftimony that his condoft had met-thiir approbation—Upon which the part grand inaficr rcfptcTiully thanked the grand mafter, and members of the grand ledge, affuring them, and all the brethren prefect, that he received the jewel as a very high honor confered cn hi n and that he would at all times feel himfeif bound to promote iLi good of the craft, and render his affiftance for the furthe.ancV of the ancient fociety in all parts cf this ftate. The different ledges then walked in procelTi an to Chrift Church, wher« divine fcrvice was prefornTed, and an excellent fonr.on preached by the rev. Brother Lindfay, grand chaplaiji. Du- ring preper intervals of the fervicc vocal and inftrumental mu- fic, adapted to the occalion, was preformed by fevt'ai breth ra with great applaufe. A coUefticn was made by the tl.i rcli wardens from the corgregation, for the benefit of the peer in general, and then the brethren returned to the lodge loom, dined together, and parted the remainder of the day in high nia- fonic feftivity and good humour, remarkable only to tlicancinit: and honorable focieiy of free mafons- It is with pleafure we can announce to the Public, that the tragedyof the Fair Penitent, and the force of the Lying V'afot. were not only agreeably reprefented to a very refpe^table au dience, but had the defired effeft of augmenting the AuiilV-c Charity Fund. We are tcld that the biethrcn are getting ijo i fome other pieces, and wc cannot but wilh them lucc-fs in rt.ciV iaudable undertaking. CHARLESTON, January 29. Both branches .of the legiflature have agreed on givihg le.ivo to the honorable y^idanus Burke, efq. to take his feat in t he -houfe of reprefentatives cf the United States, as a rti »tive of the diftridf of Beaufort and Orangeburg, andth^ lary and fees of office ffiould ceafe during the term fence. Tuefday the fenate went into the confideration cn for appointing another judge in the room of t!, Pendleton, v»hen, after debate, the r-fcTuticn v. s there being i i yeas, and g nays, and Friday next day.
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