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treaty with ’Great-Britaln, thar they hid orders
and were determined to lake every American vei
Ctl bound to or from Britilh ports, even on lul'pi
cion of going to them. Alter forcing capr. D arid
9|| his lino's company >ot.t of the lhip, they fenc
them on board ut the Flying Fiih.
This privateer mounts b nine pounders, and has
- j. nien> The captain and oiwner ot this privateer
is named Paris, and lives at No. 399, north from
itreet. He told capt. D. that he had a lift of
1! pi that he intended to take, viz. the Atlantic,
Vvuiiuni Penn, ami Dominick T»;rry. CThe people
belonging to the M unit Vernon, were pot on boarj
a pilot 3u.il. and arc lincc come no to town. T he
ll’io PuiladiT.'hia, cap'. Bill’s, bound to Bril’tol, be
irc, informed 1 r this atfaii, put back.
By a gentleman who came up from below, yel
terday. ie learn, that the Flying Fill) liy at An
chor off Cape Hopen lair Friday morning, the
lotnini’t. The pilot boat failed round her—the is
ol mm, and they oblerved lev era! Americans
umonp.lt tlte crew. The William Penn had put to
It*, on I hurfday.
Cupt. Cook, arrived at Rofron from D.marara,
brings intelligence ol i'\t taking of Berbice and El
Cequ/oo; the terms the fame as thole pranced the
p.«. ernor of Demarara, and mentions me ruing ol
colonial produce in tonfeouencc.
Arrived the fchooner Suiannah, Captain C'arfon,
iG days from Barhadoe‘, who inlunr.3, that the
tb.r.'t reir.fnrcenvnt h.d been dilpatch'd forSr. Lu
ere before he fail-d ; ihj.t part of the Cork n et had
arrived there; and that the remainder, eleven in '
numheY, were taken by a Dutch fluet and carried
into Mirrinam.
Y-. itrrd.y arrived the brig Sophia, Capr. Cran
don. in the lervicv ol the? United btatrs, 4.0 days
f: a- LilUon Ijt tbit* Sophia tattle i) il. eng< r, Capt.
PTCD ' . P. D O'Bil .EN, who v-.ii 1; year* in capti
»/:. v :.r /vgter*.
IT. *!vp Kiiza, belonging to this porr, from
K :w-Lo.to the V'. i..T..! u-:., with * Cargo ol
i; was tent in. there ft-s days before Captain
p«*.,c tailed; who further informs, that no c i 1, g»
ir. i be conduct of the Bermudians toward* other A
me. kins had taken pi zee.
from the A v rora.
Mr. 3*.:ke,
A "i):> .. j c.-llecr.ngand puhliihing t^e Eviden
ce Bri'H'i Amity to he Ui'izeni of '.he United
grates, under be blelsM ii fluence of the &iinjb
c^n-atu—I tend yop am c:. • r proof of ’hat naiiou
♦ ,-<. 'hip, whNh by ac f m-- to yow> iiit, you will
A S * » B S C P. J ? F. R.
The {h*r> Alizi '.va* g:\ bait cl in New \ mk laft
D'.itnner, woe re ‘he o -■» ri ari A e;l fome time before,
h -.Ang been b.muhiin l'Orient laft year, by the fil !
Icr’i ag*»r •; * be rook in a cargo at New - London '
or Si. fhoums's and the CrfiaMi had orders to ;
T men at ot. Bartholomews, i iV 1 the horned rat- 1
tie and proceed to the frit mc:rio.ned if? .ml wit it
the remainder cf her care.), ’hr v bote ol which
with rhe i*'ip is America: m T" *
The 11 i j f’f.hii-be Vim iih s .-ippi ** Thetis the i
?teKt da v after ihe failed from New b rnnn, a prize
maker .and men were pit on board and hie was or- ;
dered for Bermuda, .Vrevjpus to her leaving the i
d hotis th'i.humane, Britilh commander, A tEXA.^t".
Forvpster Lo'jf-RAni, ordered into his cabin the !
fupercargo, a Diinlfi i.mtect ; made him (trip to ’b-:
fan, ever y article of his clothes was ftric'ly (earth
cd, pncke'S md lining, iu hopes to difeover "ape' s
or documents b / which fhe nv.gh: be made a h-g-'l
prize. Arrjvmiji at Bermuda., tin- Eliza was hhAhi ;
but in order to have fome. plaufikle colouring tor
detaining and f nally. condemning this property , one
of the B'iti'.h failo. s pretended to have found, be
tween decks, a board, noon which was wrote, La
Emms If 9—under which appeMation the Eliza, ali
as La Barovnr !: q, for being hound from New .Non
don to the ifl<nd (fupprf.L) ot Gaudsloupe, and for
being (ftipptf-d) riencti property, this Ihipand car
go, under fuch h.lie and ext ravagant a lie gat io: s.
are now libelled in the court of Vice-Admiralty of
Bermuda.
The trunks of the fopercargo were fealed up,
himfelf thrown out of the ihip. pennylefs and “ -vi; b
out afcd'iajkiii to bis 5.:rl,”ai:d the Lap:ain and cu-w
put on (hore to Itrive tor ther*fe}ves, though defii
tute of the means to procure a"v lufrenance,
bix or teven days after the ihip and c-rgo were li
belled, the cattle were fold from 40 to 50 per cent
under colt ,* and the fame agents who made thefe
fales, bongnr the property in, and (old it t!:s next
<day at a condderable profit.
NORFOLK., June 9.
FRENCH fleet.
Yefrerdn v arrived the fchooner Charlott, Capt.
Cal-.ff, in it days from Cape Nichols Mole, Capt.
Cal'.ff informs, that a french fleet had arrived at
Cane Francois, confifiin^ of 2 fhi(>s of the line, &
frigates, and r fioop of war, and had brought out
1800 troops. On tinir pa'sage they captured x En
j»!i(h tranfports with troops, bound to the Mole
from England. The above fl er is reported to be the
forerunner of a large fleet of »8o fail ofFronch tranf
ports, under ;r>nv v-, bound to the Weir-Indies.
Immediate y "*n fl •; above news. Admiral Tasker
got under \%*av wrb h;'whole T.-et, to cruife to
windward rn intercept them.
The Bririlh ti --os had not done anv thing fince
their arrival at th • Mole, and it was underltood
there ’hat the Trench were cannonadi-ig St. Marcas,
the 26th LiUy,
MARTINS BURG, June 23.
WES I'ERN ROSTS.
A gentleman who left Niagara the 15th u!r. and
arrived at Philadelphia, informs, that ever} prepa
ration was making by the Britilh tor evacuating the
garrifons. No permits for goods or otter things
had been for forfce time £iven by the government,
they being fo loon to become unnecefsary ; in con
lequence of which no boats, except thole with la
rntly goods, oafs in ,• and thole already there are
remaining for the free intercourfe before they re
turn. The gentleman who brought this intelligence
came in a difpatch boat to Otlwego, which brought
orders for the troops there to be in readme!* to
embarl: onboard t he gun-boats from Kingiton, or
dered to receive ih'-ni.
The Br;r;!h garrilon, wYich ha3 occunied the poft
a' Point a--hair, on Lake Champlain, ever fince the
late " zr, have left it, and gone to Canada.
IIv .•c ounts received at Albany, it appears that
the Britilh were leaving leveral ol the vvc!tern
P ofts,
The Prefidert of the United State? has arrived at
Mount Vernon from Philadelphia,
Monday hit, John Huffman, charged with horfs
frralmg, was examined be* re a fpeciai court h.Cd
in ri 1 • rown ; the court -ting from the evidence
fitisfied.of bis guilt, ordered him lor further trial
at the Diftri :t Court.
A well informed correfpondent shores u> that
for.about a month pall, there hare been at Alexan
dria* forty thoofard barrels ol four ftored tor e;c.
port atioti He adds, that i.n tlie I ft ol May lalt,
twenty tb.-iiifand barrels ol Hour were computed to
be (cored at Watt’s Branch, above the great Tr •11 r of
Poto-wnark, of which not more than one bait can
vet have been Ihipp-M for exportation. As grain
ol ai1 kinds is daily becoming very plentiful in Lu
x' ;pe, and as f.'ch immenle quant!1 its are at preient
on hand- in this country, it may be expected that
the enormous price of this great necebary of life
will continue to fall.
We are likewise inform ed,that the mills ofGsorge
Town ar-i grinding of .heir flock as fait as pot
fihle, beinii hc a moderate computation about fittv
barrels per day. A thoufind barrels have been
(hipped within ihif fortnight, for Philadelphia and
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came to hand too late tor ’ibis day 1 LublicatiuM, but fca.l
bas e a place In our tux'.
PROPOSALS
n: THE AUTHOR. i
Is OR PUBLI -III SO cr St7BSCRI?TIOSfa
A WORK. JsN I i I Lhi.i
ELEMENTS OF TUNE,
Bring a Scientific invefiigation of the Theory end
Principles of Midi. and the rationalia of
ihr compofition of Tune,
ROTH MELODY AND HARMONY.
THE Science of Hounds conlidered as MuCcal,
plainly deduced from actual Experiments, arid err
lirely both in Principle and Inference, ia, in
i h is Work, dein unit rated (in principle; throughout,
on theplaineft Math-matical Principles, iilimrated
bv a number of Explanatory Figures, nealv engraved.
ijr JAMES SYLVAN US M-LEAN.
1 HE author flatter* hiinfeif, that the origi
nal of this work, its being the produce of our
o‘»*:i country, and containing the princ'ples of the
only fcience hitherto uutnveftigaitd, will make it
not un.liuer.el ting to the Literati, and entitle it to a
lliare of public patronage.
C O N D 1 'i IONS.
TVs Work, will be printed in octavo, on good pa
per, with a new type.
It. wiP contain about 250 pages, 3nd 12 plates, hand
lomely executed.
The p’ ice to Subl'cribers will he One Dolla- and
Twenty-five Cents in blue boards, and One Dol
lar and Fifty Cents bound and lettered—-to be
paid on delivery.
The work will be put to prefs when r00 fubferibers
are obtained.
Subfcriprions are received by N. WILLIS,
Printer, NlarUnsburg.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY June auih, '06, from the fubferiber
a: Williams P:rt, a negro man named Will, a
bouc to years old, ; lie had on when he went away
an oznaburg fhirt and trowi'ers, and a high crown’d
bat. He is a fiiort well made fellow, with red eyes
and remarkable plump ; lie has followed boating
from Williams-Port to U'utis Branch, this Coring —
He ran a wav fhtne time in March la(t, and was ta
ken up bv William Crook, within four miles of
Wormley's ford, and within fix ot Snigers’s, on t lie
Shenadoah. I expect he has made for that neigh
boorliood, or for Loudoun County, below Snigers’s
gap. He alio will endeavour to pals for a freeman,
as he did when he ran awav before, and cal'.-d his
name George, and he is known by the name of
George below Sniger^’s gap, in a.oudoun county.—
Whoever takes up fa Id negro and brings him to me
at Williams-Pori, ihall have the above reward.
SAMVEL THOMAS.
June 29.i ’of*.
A Boot and Shoe Manufactory,
BEING d'tabhlhcd it) this town, adjoining Mr.
SommcrviUe's .(tore, in the Diamond, by the
luoicrtbets, they take the liberty or ai quain'ing t lie
Public therewith, while they reipetuvely 1 o 1;cic
' that fliew of patronage they may pletfe to eiteeiti
I them entitled to as Jhattgers and genuine rwork men.
I V/ere other evidence than that ot the b>jl tiuli, neat*
rji work, ttie molt expeditious execution (tor lau.es,
jicntjerrer. and children) together with terms on n
level with the (ovimorteji necejfury, reftimoM. ! might
be phodoced from Lttropc, a.s well as various to«i,j
on this continent, and Baltimore in pirtialar,
where the bniinefs was latterly carrier on ter a
confiderable length of tin-r in r* very ext relive man*
I ner (we will be free to add) with equal erdr.antc.gc
as farisfaTiion to thofe who were plca.rd to conhue
in them.
As notwithftanding the {uperior quality of our
work, we mean.n >t to exceed the ioroed rates, lb
neither can wc agree that avj Jhould be remaned unpa.d
fr>r, being drliVrns i<» l«>oi’e i\t lull* time, property la
bour or cuQimers, a'* polSir.te. But no favour cowtci*
red lh i - be received with inkr.hbiliiy, n >r rm.rti
ed with ingratitude or injuiiice, by the public#
devoted humble lcrvant%
WALSH and MULHALL,
June ?2, *9^.
TO tE SO.VD, OR RENTED FOB FIVE
YEARS.
HJT'HE Tan Yard I polseis in this town, firuafe
A on the To cue? ora creek, on- which is n large
two Itorv brisk Houle, nearly (rnilhed, a ganb n
handfoincls paled in, twenty {our tan ba:k
mill, curry ing‘.hop. ftabie, &c. Ir in unnecels.u y
to comment <,» the many advantages attending
the rr. in- 'f-tciurin g or lea-her in this place, as w<il
as the great demand for it when nanuhmu^d ; I
will on'.’-- obferve, that it cannot hr exert , p-r
hapn, by any part ot the United States, if p-op. riy
carried cn. Tim terms of fisie may be 1cr»• • v.-n by
applying to the Subfcriter.
joi:n cterrall.
K. E. I hive a’arge ouantitv of Spnnilh
L-arher, now ready for title, i will in a hi s* evuii
derable abatement upon it, if taken hv ihr ’ ooo wt,
— I want to purchate a few good HOlRSEb.
hi art: rs burg, June 2?., ’o6.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
R AN away f»*o:n the luhicriber, on Sundry, tbs
5'.h June; r negro man named D, «8 jrns
of age, and about 5 fret 8 inches high . he is a Mil
faced fad,, and when fpoken to fault a, and lianas }im
head -own as it afhamhj ; he is rather of a yellow
cafr, underf: ands Killing, moving, cradleing, fa
Ihort he is acquainted with all forts of farming bu
ll:! ?l « he has a mark on the ba>k fide ol his head,
where he was burned, about the lice of a piLart-en ;
took with hitn a round cloth j-uket. and linen bree
ches • it is probable he has got change of clothes
fronvbis mother, who lives with Mr. Rulsel. near
Morgan's Chapel, between Mart.vsburg and Win
chester. or his filter, who lives with Mr. Lile, otf,
AppleFye-RVdge, a few miles from Martincburg.
He was feen enqui: fag the rood 1 j ! ory -1 nwn,
which is ad'-oioing Mr. Rufsel's. The above re
ward *.v i 11 be given and real on* me charges psid. if
brought to Charieficw::, or to my firm '<n Shana
doah. JAMES HAMMOND.
June 23, ’9 5.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED from the commons of this town, oa
Monday evening, the i6rh inft. a dark-brow 1
or black Mare, 4 years old oalf, near1;, j4 hand?
high, branded F on the near ‘.hoHlder and fa on the
near burrock, natural trotter, a white I pot on rnv
lhov.it!rr occasioned by the thiltula.has iateiy ;;fen
cut on the hams by a rope with which the was tied
and got entangled,alio fume fre'h fears on her fored
head : fhe was Ihod all round. Whoever takes up
laid Mare and returns her to me, it found withia
io miles of home, {hall have two dollars reward,
and il a greater diiiance lour dollars, and necelsa
rv charges.
WILLIAM M‘CAUSLAND.
Martinsburrt June zj, ’g6.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
TJJ) AN away from the ful.farther, S miles below
X\; Morgantown, in Me-nonualia Courty, Virgi
nia, on the iSih day of April lal’r, while on my way
to Kentucky, a likely negro man named Ned, of a
yellow complexion, about c 1 \enrs old, j feet (j or
10 inches high, ltraight and well mart.-, '.cry talka
tive, had on a new wool hat, liner* Ihirr and rrow
fers, brown cloth waiftcoac and ftriped coatit m
coat. Whoever will apprehend laid nep.ro, comirri
him rnanv goal, an.d forward information to Mi .
'Ja-«et Wilier, near W art ini burg, HetkrUy k.•-.in,v, Ihall
have Thirty Dollars reward, or F :tv Ddlars, if
delivered to me in Maf^n County, Dcughniy's biati
on, near Way's Lick, k.cmucky
WILLIAM GLENN
June 70, p<$.