The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser — Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.], 1797-01-19 00:00:00, page 3

pcscf is concluded, the ImperialiCr* w’dl fallow up
u , ir luecdscs by a winter campaign in France.
jfj-otn Cadiz we learn, that on the 8th inft. the
S.*in;tli Admiral Langara has taken fume Englilh
r»cu of war in the Mediterranean Sea, and that it'
]... |ud had orders of holtility z\ hours fooner, be
could have raken -be Englilh oivifiou ot Admiral
it.ann, confifi mg ol five Ships of the line, with a
convoy ot 4 00» men. In ifltretnadura .will be
i .dtd a hp.milb camp-, coiifi.ling ot 60 00 > men.
T lie Engliiu Ibips which Admiral Lingara has
taken aie 1 of 50 guns, and 1 corvettes. The
Engl if n men or w..r which blocked up the port of
Can huge;.-, are r-ettimed lO Gibraltar.
Y.i td;.v 1 hr’.'ouncH ..f Mve Hut dred laid an
cfi.bargo. Mo fuips wherein are found Englilh
foods are to be iu&red to enter any of the French
ports. ' .
On ih-xph inft. the Council of hive Hundred
received a ,.*eisjge from the Directory, when upon
h f irmed icieif imo a i'evret connv.iuee, ir K .fs-r
tvj iimi this uiClSagc relates to a peace with Purlu
^ The ce sarian of arms with Modeha was dlftur
b d by dii;!uii.*<i aanlmis. in one of ilicM ldcnefe
viil.ig.--s, S.andiaiiJ, the inhabitants cut down the
jrce of liberty, armed ihemfelves, infuli d 3rd
Allied <ome republican minded perlons, who would
go - ii: a firtich conmiisary in S-.diidiano. The
noted Abbe Spallanzani, it iv; laid, played a natter
No-vemjtr \ 7 There has been a report in circu
lation, jn 1 IVlini 1 irrs ha', e received amounts 1,0111
J>cl!air, tha* a vefs*l bearing American colours had
t cocl into that harbour, bur feeing a king’s Ikip ly
ing-at anchor, hail endeavoured 10 iluo.r «.?} ,• hut
was taken, and it was found that Die Inti 1 r.ooo
ltr.nd ot atS.is on hoard. The captain had time to
burn his paper*, and he would ne ther lay, irom
whence he came nor whither he was bound. We
repent the itury ex'.tly according 10 rumour, bur
00 (lie face of it, it is a molt improh ible tale. If
Ihere wa;, r.nv (Migr, either on the part ot the me
ruy, r»r the di‘-.iiT: cred p.-rfons in this country (ii
there "r;J any vc- ,lly dif-fTected) to fmugglc Src arms
into itw* Uiiiudom. tlit-y would llirtily ljav: lem
vef.-siintba port fo public as B.-Dall. The Iriib
papers fay nothing offuch an ew-r.t.
Y-'fiertlav an ccount was received from Dover,
fra'mg, that intelligence had beet: comcionicated
by the T' ie^rafh t<» L a few hours before the
1 iih ; rf a v, i;.-l fi . ru Calis arri* ed- th«-:e—that an
eng"per,v.-.ju had taken : ! :ce between the Austrian
fl ?n. ADiu/y and the 'i-’v. h gi'Mewil W il>: j, on
thi- 20th ul*. m.ar Trie fie, in w|,iji the former
V'-rp debated; the French Iv^-ing made about
5 'r.o croa's and a nomucr. of < fh ers prisoners.—
'The f«nn vti and a!! r>,* baggage o! tile Anhrialis
is Ho fell into their hadJs.
UNITE D STATES.
NLvV-Yu.t<k. J:.tiu.ii'> 9.
1 bd vv.g import ant extract of a letter ;rotn
ja re‘.pec: d- Mercantile houfe in Norwich (Con
necticut } dated on Sunday lair, January s. was po
litely handl'd us I:sft eve: ing tor ii: ■ *«i«> 11 ;
“The 11 iip IJ,,pt ri ived- 1 he day before yrfterday
at New-Lohtl.on, in 36 d tys troit: I.*verpo-.l, Par
ticulats hy this vciei 1 have not el learnt : the
moft iniporrv.it article is, the return *»» lot c. .Vialinf
hury ir:)T* 1 Pari.*, a<» he went, and that uli parties
are prepat in,.* to pr.-fecute the war with ike utinoft
The Hope, is On the O-ftee -Houle books as arri
ved at New London, in 36 day s from London. Let
*eij. by i\*r are alto i’aid ; 0 be in town adviling that
T - brought-intelligence of the Britiih miniiter Lord
fvl ilm tlvMy, having returned from Paris, vithmit
having effected any of the objects ot his :rnflior.. We
believe i; ; and our inner foreign accounts, though
not fo late, j.iftify, we think, the conclulion.. No
i?fw* papers were teceived by the mail i:ota Nev/
Luritloiio
ALBANY, December io.
PHENOMENON.
Extract of a letter received by a gentleman of this
city rrotfi bis friend in B-uh,in the county ofbiu
ben, dated Nov. 25, *06.
“ 'I bis <Jay fortnight it was fo very dark that we
were obliged to lip,lk a candle to dine by at about
half pale one, P. Daring' the afternoon the
darkneis continued, and having pccaiion to write
1 found th-; aid of a candle indiipenfibly nectlfur) ."
Minv of our yeaders wiil recollect, that a pheno
menon fimiUr 10 the above occurred in tb s country
in iVljy ot iht? year /yjo, when in. different pans
of the continent dinner could not be ierved at the
uiual hour wit bout candle-light, and the darkneis
t>i the fucceediftg i/igbt was beyond all defcripiion.
1 he extent id this darkneis was extraordinary. It
was obfrried as far call. as Falmouth. To the
weltward it reached to the further part o( Connec
ticut and to Albany. To the fouthward 1 wa5 cb
lei ved along the lea coai’ts, and to the n-orih as far
-»s the American feltlements extend. A vefsel at
fea found rerfclf enclol’ed for a while in a cloud of
this darkneis, and as the failed, pafsed inftsnriy
from the vet g* <>f it info a clear light. 7bis phe
nomenon ts t ling accounted for. In the hack coun
tries, particularly in the weftern pirt’. of New
Hainplhiie and Mafsachulet ts, and in Vermont, In
clearing the new lands, uncommonly large fires had
been kept up to the extent of many fcore miles
round the fiontierl. The weather being clear, the
%li' VVtlfc : , t*i»u Die wind (wall anu variable for
fcveral days, the fmoke, infrc*d of difperfmg, rofe,
and conltaiuly collected in the air, nil the aunol
phere was loaded with luch an uncommon quantity
ot u as proved in combination with other vapours,
the parent of the preceding darkneis.
PHILADELPHIA, January 10.
A Dutch dilpatched from Holland, for the
purpole ol re-taking the Cape of Good Hope, were
all captured on the 17th Augnftat anchor inSaldan
by Bay. The Dutch Iquadron confift**d ol two Ihips
ol 66 gons, one 5/.. one -4.4., one 36, one :c6, one
20, .>ue 18, and a nore llirji ; cometandrd by Rear
Ad Lucas. They appear to have been weakly man
ic d, the {flips of the line having !efs than 4.00 lea
men and troops, and all others in proportion. The
lii'ftiih fleet which oprured them, coi fi’tcd of(even
t tips of the 1 i:: e, a 5 >. and feverai ol i in Her force
commanded by Ad Jblphinfrone. The Dutch Ad
miral lurrendered by capitulation, without firing a
£u”; .. .
'1 he King oi Sardinia is dead. The Prince of
F1ediuo.1t lure red s him. ,
The lcar of a f rench iftvafion, l ather increafrs ;n
England, and the M.nil’try endeavouring to pro
luoje the alarm.
General Bournonville fent ah account from the
head quarters at Mulheitn, dated the ijd’Oct. of
the eroding of the Rhine, which the Aul.rians at
tempted ott the *2d, at bight, at Neutvied, &c.«—
f fins p.ccocur agrees in the whole wifi?that? of the
French already publilhed.) Among other rt tides
1 ■ ts t id, ijiji all of llie -enemy who cVofsid the
Rhine at Neudorffl were either killed, taken pri
1 >ners, nr dt owned. On the left bank-of the Rhine
were left in our hands, :ooo prilonerS, 4.00 whereof
w.-te wounded. Tlioie that were drowned are cL
tMiatrd a. 3 ->r 4 no. and the loi's of the enemy on
the right wing mult have been extraordinary gieat,
as <h- y received from the bridge battery a molt af
toniihing (ite. Generals Kleber'and Grenier have
did mguiisit'd tlumfelves molt wonderfully*
W hive to often *etn impoled upon b) fa!fe ac
count extracted orl'iid to be extracted horn Ger
man pipers ’.!:.it we mini: ourfeives jollified in quel
tiuuii g lb - authenticity u.f the details concerning
the repeated dei«ats of Moreau's army, w«ich ap
peared in the Aurora the day before yefn-iday un
der the Ofivnburgh head. I h pretended terrible
battles will at hilt torn out to have been but flight
-kirr- ‘he-- I n-/ letter rf the commiicary H.miIs
m *n inlerted in the Aurora of yefu rdiy, lays that
M .lean had c-oiled rite troops under Gen. nr. Cyr
to crois the Rhi ;e ar Brifach about the 141I1 Oct —
To cover this nuiauver it w s neceisaty to keep
p.dsefiioa ol F. itMJurg and Eirinmdingcn j. but as
loon as the ttnjor pArt of the troops had crofsed the
river, thole vvlm covered their paSsage probably e
vaiuated the above pblts, and marched alfo to the
other fide of the Rhine.
Sf. Cry after will eli recfbfted the Rhine near ‘mraf
bor.rg, and joined »lie troops in the ctitrip 6f K.- 1.1.
The m tin force ot Moreau's army remained in the
mean time in the upp. r M nquilate of Badeu. De
faix’s right wing had already .taken poLHsjon of the
upper ci-files of 'he Black Knelt, v. inch enabled
him to tail in the rear of.the Aultrian army. Ge
neral Ferino was irill in the vicinity of the Fotelt
towns; a free communication with France was fe
cured, and the Austrians had no longer the oppor
tunity of intercepringMoreau’s difpatches, to whiih
aione they were indebted for their momentary ine
eds.
BALTIMORE, J mu <ry 3.
The brig William, Capt. M'Kinnon, arrived at
Annapolis on Saturday laft, from Malaga, lift ftum
Gibraltar, which place the left oil tilt 3 ! October.
About the lit Oct the Spanilh fl.t’t of about t8
fail of ihe line and feveral frigates,, pulsed him on
| their way up the Straits between Malaga and Gi
1 hi altar. He was told at Gibraltar, that iheihi
t;fh fleer, con filling of 20' fail oi the line, were up
t he Straits ,■ there was only one frigate lying at Gi
braltar.
He likewife mentions, rh.n war was expected
there between the Spanilh and Englilb; that a
campof 10 003 Spanilh troops was within gun Ihct
ot that ganiton, arid within reach of the harbour—
and that the vefsels there kept their ’nils bent, rea
dy to run our in cate of an attack. The Algerines
under the colours of other States, were cruizing up the
Straus, a.ib h»i; captured one or two American vef
te)9. The Portuguele fleet being fialioned at Gi
braltar, there v «3 no. danger to be apprehended
from African crullers ip-1 hat neighboinhood. Capt.
M Kinnon w-as brought to ard examined betw *en
IVl lagaand Gibraltar, by a French cruller ; their
object, they laid, was to frop and carry in all vsf
lels bound n cud from a Biinfh port.
ALEXANDRIA, January 14,..
On the Lower Rhine the Austrians mad?, on tl.t
22 i u!r. a bold, but uniucceisful attempt to render
rhemfelves matters of the bridge.head near Nru
wit-d. and to cut off the'.vir.inunicaiion between the
right and left wings of the French army—Their lofs
appears to be very coniiderable on this occafion :
and the french, under Bournonvjlle, maintained
their pofition. ft we are to admit the French ac
count, they made 1000 prifoners, /jro of whom
were Av.iuuded ■, and rlie affair, on the whole colt
tli2 Auftrians 4000 men.
Hamburg p .pers have been received at Philadel
phia, to the 5rh of Novembei :—in a letter from
- Buonaparte to the Executive Director), dated Oct.
27.—he informs that lie hud lent Gen. Gentil 1 i to
take polseflton of Corflca, which appears to have
: been evseutud by the Ki;£*iiU.
MARTIMSBURG, "January 19.
A letter from Cape FrWo'n, Hared tile 29th No
vember men1 ions, ihot 43 lail of American vefsels
have bc<n captured within thcle four months—1 he
vefseli and cargoes amounting, to 1,250,000 dollars *
and that they itiW continue capturing American vei'
fels-J’if they are not condemned, they take the car.
goes bv force. The letter concludes thus; “For
God’s lake don’t adventure any more this way.”
Eytrail ofa letter frc.ti Philadelphia.
“ I unde.'It?no that the secretary ot Mjitejs pre
oaring a ftimment ot the conduct of our govern
ment relative to France, to belaid before Congreis
for their information, by way ot aniwer to the char
ges of Adet. . in
A Paris Journal of the I oth Ntrcerr.ler hat i.:e following
article.
“ We arc afsured that Lord Malmelbury haa made
to the Directory the propofals for an armiliice be
tween England and France.
F O R ,5 A L E,
A LOT in the town of Martiulburg, difringuilh
etl.in th.c plan of laid town by No. 75 ; mere >»
j n ) improvement on laid lot except that u js p:»iled
i in. Any p*-rIon inclining 10 pur.i it* rhe lame,
may know the :ertnsv i>y applying t • Mr. James
L'lwCm, in Maitiuioorg, or ,to the t'ubicnb.r, in
I VVoodfrock.
f ALEX ANIM'.U. POLLOCK,
f Adutr, oi James I. .Voilovk, ow’d.
January 19, ’yy.
\l£'7 H.VREAS 'it Ntyembse lafr, I bonghr.a horfe
! VV from d c« rraic. Eli Ciim'ou, for which I gave
! him my note tor eight) dollar,s due the fir'l of
I March. He warranted the horfe robe found, which
he is not: 1... thereto re forewarn all periods from
taking au alignment on laid vote, tori am deter
intneci net to pay it, unlels compelled hv law.
WILLIAM PARK.
January tg, 97*
A 1.1. p'-rfons having any demands attninfr the
Jt\ eliate Of Martin Hdm, late of Berkeley
County, de'-’d, are defired to bring in iheir ac~
count: for fri tlenunt ; «nd all tljofe thdebted to ti»-i
laid eftate, are remedied to make immediate pay
ment to thetubferiber, as Ihe is determined on a
fpeedy fettleinent.
BARBARY IILLM, Admr’x.
January to. ’g7
— A1 or ICE.
THE I* E are a nuinbrr it It ray Hogs that have
been wi li the iubfcriber fince latr J«i 1 y ; die
owners, are ck-fired tc come; prove prop riy, pay
charges am! lake them away, or they will be fold
as the law directs.
WILLIAM LOYD.
January 19. '97
ALL Perfons having any demand.*; by nore,bond0
or oiherwite. againii the eltaie of Mariii|
Slip, lire of Berkeley County, deceafed, are delir
rd.to bring in their claims, regularly att'lted, for
let (lenient and all rho'e indebted to the laid e:
tare, either by bond, nore, or book account, are re
quefted to m t;e immecii ite pa\merit, that a linal
adjufiment of the faid eftate may take place, as
no further indulgence will be given.
JOHN and FREDERICK. S HP, Executors.
Jan. 16.
FOR SAL E,
A handiome young lorrel STUD, 16
frauds and halt high, riling 4. years old, in good or
der. For further particulars, apply to the fubfcri
ber,in Martinsburg.
PAUL VERD1ER.
Jan. 18.
. (LxT I.will rake one or two apprentices to the
Tylining Eulinels, Irom fourteen to levetucen year*
of age.
TO $E SOLD,
A very valuable NEGRO WOMAN.
tor particulars, apply t0 ths Primer.
Jan 1 S.
THIi lair of the late Barney MShcrry's effects,
advertifed fur fair- this day, is put off until
Saturday the 21 It inlt. wlrich will be fold on thus
day, at the dwelling of Mr. Jofeph Wa.llingsford,
and attendance given.
RICHARD M SHERRY, Adrn’r.
Jan. 12.