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#ie boufe ofcapt. Andrew Baiofey & patst«g I said Barney, Sc then puffing on down the river •—and in (bins foort time alter heard that the aforefaid party was attacked by a party of the britifh k that col. Jones was wounded, capt. Gjldwirc killed tc J. Hatcher wounded, by means ofUhich wound he (the latter) loft his leg—and this deponent also declares that the alurcfaid 'Jeremiah Hatcher never was fit.it in capt. Burney's horfe-pen.* GEORGE fI&NDERi Sworn to before me this 1 1 6ih /iugtjl j 805. j VT AI.TER TaTLOK, J. P. L. S. btatc of South Carolina, \ Barnwell OifriA, J Appeared bdbrtfjme Walter Taylor, who being sworn, faycth, that he recollects du. ring the Revolutionary War of this country to have seen a party of British Troops thtrt Rationed in Augusta, under the command (I Col. ftrow'n, come to Silver Bluff lath one cvemrig, And remain there until after (upper, When they (uddtnly went off and in a fhoit time I heard guns fire, as I *fup pnfed to be by them ; which excited a good deal of alarm on the plantation and excited a confidcrahlft desire in the inhabitants of the place to know the caurfc of tiv, firing, the gtnr. which we heard arid filppofcd to be fired by the party of Tioopj just mentioned J 1 feme time before day feme of the party retort.'d to Silver. Bluff and gave information rs ottvking a patty of Americans, who v.'cie fecivfec! at a plantation of Col. Hen ry Jones, to the lower end of Beac h-Hand, known by the mrfle of the Poke-patch, and ‘ that they had Ihot (omc of them. 7he .next morning wc heard that the parry of Ameri cans alluded to, w;:s commanded by Col. John Jonas, and that he was wounded, James Goldwirc one of the party, killed, and Jet eta ah Haieher another of flic parry foot, l>y wtveh foot we. afterwards uoder. stood he 101 l his leg —and further this depo nent faith nor. WALTER TAYLOR. Sworn to lefbie me this 26th \ day of Auguf, 1806. J Thomas Newman, j. p. “ Eads ate ftubbotn things” and not tot be foaken or evaded by party malice or the ccnnihg of unprincipled defamers J and did 1 not foppofe that the deleft able calumny attempted to be propagated against rry chamber, was abundantly deleted and refuted by this time, other affidavits of men equally could be given 'to the public, I foall carefully preserve the origin, sis of ihe foregoing affidavits at Edgefield Court-Hcwfe, where I pledge inyfclf to the public, they may be fprn at any time and by any pcifon who rnuy wifo to peruse thcm.+ It is now intended by a fourt statement to account to the public why a man of Col. Martin's (landing in a religious, civil and military point of view, Chou id so abufc himfdf, as to tolerate a hateful, and I hope 1 may fay, an ungrateful (lander against me. It has already been hinted tbrtt the Col. and rnyfeif have never (at any rate fora long time) been in unison either as to political principles, political Men, or political me a - J'stres. It is confidently believed that our difference commenced at or about the time the celebrated Robert Good lew Harp ft be gun his political career, by being defied a member to congress from the clef lion dis. trifl, which at that time included Edgficld , County. Harper's condufl is now too well known to need many animadversions, fuf fice it to f.ty tint, altho’ he set out with the condo (I of a raving democrat, and as the peculiar friend, cf the people, yeti be. lieved him, in a Rvwr time, to be too proud and ambitious at heart to be sincere in his profeffions. Did net his very outfec in Con. goTs prove the truth of my suspicions f Bid he not aiijciaie himfdf imd afl, in every important political measure with tbc men who were then eodeavcOring to beat down the fair f»jn»c cf otir liberties, and whom eleven twelfths of ihe American uco. pic, have finer spurned ft cm their pseftnee ? To palliate his ruonftrous couduO, and ac count for its glaring inconfiftcncy with his firft profeflions, he vrrote pamphlets, long letters, and mad*; fpeechrs, which he con. tinually poured in upon his cenftituents to sustain his bloated popularity, Nothing was read in opposition to him, at that time, w hereas yea could fend on the foeif or in the book case of every man, who had any prc. Motion* to influence, Harper's letters, fpee. chesand phamphkts. The natural Cjaor.ce was that he enchained and Emitted feversl charaflers,-firft to himfelf, and then to lus principles. Among ethers, with fobmiflion, 1 mention Col. Martin, and force of h;s intimate friends, two or three of whom have bun named. They fuppor trd Harper to the last. The delusion bow. r. - A. *Mr. George Render at that time lived with capt. Burney, in whiff horfe-pett I was repnfcKtcd by my calumniators to have le-n Jhot, f As to Cel. Martin's ajfertion at the Meeting.houft Hut 1 myfelf had told him that 1 was /hot in the ad of ft ling Bur. try's horses, it is really too absurd, incon. ffient and ridiculous to merit ary other no. lice than this, that I believe the Col. made it, and came prepared to make it for two reasons; the f rf, to cover the more artfully any unfounded calumnies againfi me, which to fay the leaf! of it, had"been before that time Jan&loned by him, end which he feared would recoil upon himfelf St bis own intenf in the election as font as detefied; and the second was U Jave himfelf from or to avoid an aQ ion at law fer the f under, in which he ntuft have apprehended beany damages, the public will draw its own inference, eves fooh began t» wdai away, and the motions of this political demagogue were properly appreciated, by the bulk of the people. Willi what little influence I had I opposed him, and my oopofition increased at every eledioo, in proportion as his gigan tic and ambitious strides after power were displayed to the view of the world.—That Col. Martin was hla undeviating friend and fupporttr I have already said, and I have not wanted proofs to convince me that he has ever since been Harper's friend , and the J fund of hit principles. The col. has since been a candidate for the Gate legisla ture at almost every elcdicn. I have, to gether with a large portion of the citizens of this diftrid with.whom I have had the honor to ad (and whom I am proud to fay at this day form a majority of the diftricV) as uniformly opposed Martin's eledion.;— Thavc done so from principle. He is well known to be ambitious of political prefer ment, artd to have gone great lengths to infurc it. In the fu.amer us 1804, he made ati open prolcllion of religion, and joined one of the Baptiil Churches. In the fall of the fame year he was elected as one of three members to the house of rcphcfcntativcs of the Gate iegifiature, by a majority of seven votes over the fourth candidate. * It would be too tedious ro notice the circumftauces Attending the election, although they would the more dearly uhravil this nun's charac ter, for the public Will fee that lam at tempting to Grow a difpofiiion in him to wards me, which will account for his Hin der, 1 will merely mention (which 1 am ready to prove) that he attacked me in a very abrupt, unprovoked and infolfent man ner, at the election held at his own mutter gtound in 1804. At the ftffion of the legislature fuccccding, he obtained the elec tion (I do not mean by hit a<ivn inf Hence) of his favorite candidate for the Sheriffship ol this djftrid, in oppofuio'n to the voices of ail the members of the fame diftrid, which so rejoiced him, and which he thought would so mortify thole who had always op posed him, from principle, that he addrefled trie from Columbia a letter, of which this is art exad copy. December Sth, 1564. SIR, I have the pleasure ol congratulating you oh Mr. John Allfcn's cledion as Sheriff of Edgefield Dill rid--1 begin to think the chain is broken tho’ liuk’t as strong as you thought, 1 i havdmorcat prefenfbut remain yours &c. BARKLEY MARTIN. This letter I confefs furpized me, on ac count dl bisfelcdingincisrhcpcrfont-o whom he fhotild dired his killing finite and fwoln burlesque, whcti there were many, very ma ny others who equally opposed the preten tions and views, ol himfclf and his minions The little pedantic tribe of emissaries, w ho had sprung from the alhes of the renowned & puissant Harper 1 I fed the warmefl emotions of zeal and felf approbation beating in my bosom, wheh I tell my Icllow citizens that 1 have opposed and still will oppose the po. It heal advances 0/Col. Martin, and thole whofc icntiments are congenial with his, until I witness in them, a thorough and ra dical change of principle, and cOndcd. I (hall fed jollified to my country, that I have ’ opposed him and will still oppose him, not 1 only bccaufe I think his political principles, are rotten , but liccanfe he has taken by the hand, as his moll intimate friends and com panions, and has fandioned the condad of a let of men, who have no fettled principles of adion; who are veered about as the winds ftf intertft, may carry them, who have by the molt black and unfounded lies and Handers attempted to taint and destroy the • characters oi tlie most refpcdablc personages in our diftrid ; men who have been high in J its confidence ever since the revolution and v whole characters even the breath of (lander and malice, dared never to alTail until this fix arm was unhivtd ! I am bold to fay that the confidential friends of CoL Martin have thus attempted ft blacken and beat down those men high in the confidence of their fel low citizci.s, to make way fur their own pro motion to find places of honor And profit for this hungry swarm of busy infeds J k rom the whole of the foregoing statement, I trull the public will be able to fee most clear ly ho* high the political pulse of Col. Mar till has beat towards me, and when it is fur ther dated, that he was a candidate for the leg.ftatureac the time of the propagation of the flnndcr agamft me, and apprehending all opposition I would have given him (which 1 pledge myfclfili.it be fbould have had, had it not been for his hidden declinfion of being »candidate, shortly after the rencounter at the Meeting.houfie,) I asn sure my fellow citizens will not be so much aftor.Sfhed at his condud towards rfic, and will be ena bled to judge how far be has aded the part of a good thriftsait, an honest politician, yr upright private citizen . Into their hands 1 commir him, JEREMIAH HATCHER. Edgefield, S. Carolina, Sept , 2 1, 1 806. I StERL.caEEK 20th Sept. iBel. E)ear Sir, 1 received a letter from Mr. Taylor some. rime finer, informing that yoti request me to fend you a certificate of the unfortunate cir cumflance that occaficned {he loss of your leg, 1 wi(b it was in ray power to mention every minutirs tefpeding it, but the length of time that has since clapfed, and never ex pedingto be called pn to teftify what I knew of it, has fullered ft, in a great mealarc, to escape ray recolledion—however; this much I perfedly recoiled, that you were in com pany with men of charader and refprfhtbUi -1 ty, Who had ftcpf forward it the caifieft pe riod, of our revolution to lend iheir aid in eftablHhing our free, happy and independent government —I remember that the Skirrniih in which you loft your leg, happened at a place in Beach. Hand, called the Poak-patch, about three mile* from Silver-Bluff. I be lieve the guns were diftmllly heard from that place, in the (kirmilh Mr. James Gold wyre, a very and refpeitable citizen of Georgia, was killed- —Col. John Jones, a manofthefirft refpeflability, also of Geor gia, was (hot through the arm, and made a prisoner with yourfelf. The name of the British officer that commanded the party you engaged wit))* I do not at pfefent recoiled ; -fori never had -any acquaintance with Brown's effiects j but I know that thty were a party detached from the army that was in Garrifun in Augusta, under the command of Colonel Brown—l have known you and many of yotir family for more than twenty years 5 you were all {launch Whigs in the time of our revolutionary war; Four of your rela tives were Dragoons in Major Car’s inde pendent Tioop, in which I served the last two years of the war, as a Volunteer; and it is well known the fcrviccs they performed* —“Mr. Taylor mentioned to me the circum fiance that induces you to request certificates of this kind-—lt is very much to bfe lamen. red, that irftcad cf afperflng the character of each other, we cannot be more unanimous in our femimenis in politics* and use our joint exertions in fnpporting the liappieftgo. vernraent cn earth—The government poin ted out to us by Heaven, when Hie placed, by her influence, that virtuous & sage repub lican Jtfferfm (the firft of mankind) in the presidential chair, to adminiftcr if. If this Tetter anfwcrs the object for which you re quest it, you have jt with the utmost good : will, and if ncceflary I will be qualified to the fads stated- I am Dear Sir your obed’t servant. T. GALPHIN. Mr. Jeremiah Hatcher. Edgtjitld D'tjlrtd. - LATEST FROM ENGLAND: By Jh':p Sally. Ann arrived at Bojiaiu LONDON, JutYiii The expedition about to proceed to the Mediterranean, will consist of the corps which we diredlly mentioned on Tuefday, as being destined for that fervicc. The whole force will amount to upwards of 12,- o»o men. Two hundred atid fifty men be longing t o the 2d battalion of the firft re. giment of guards, have volunteered to join the ill and 3 battalions of that corps, which form a part of the expedition,—This brigade will be tiiider the orders of general Wynyard. The embarkation will commence about the middle of next week. All this, , furcly,. displays no pacific difpofttion on the part of dur government. July 19. The removal of the crews of the Prussian vcffels from on board their (hips to prison, has been the forerunner, as it was natural to cxpslf, of the departure of the Prussian am bafTador Jacobi, who has received orders to leave this country, and who is expelled to set off about the end of next week* July 22. V The Constance frigate arrived at Ports. mouth on Saturday ; spoke, dn the preceding Thursday, an American schooner, the Hope, P* Woodward, mailer—*ffie had' just came out of Checbourgh. The maltcr of her de clared, that he read in the Moniteur, that a had been signed at Paris, between the &55*fror and the Porte, by which the former is permitted to march troops through the Tutkith territory to Egypt. T he reports of American mailers prove in general, Hr erroneous, that we may fairly question tlic accuracy of this intelligence* A mail from Gottenhurgh arrived yester day. The general opinion is, that a war with Prussia is inevitable. The army in Pomerania has taken a new and advanced polition j considerable reinforcements were also expelled at Straflund. >ly 24. Parliament was prorogued by commission. This event was announced by the followingaddrefs to both Houfea: ‘ ■ “ Lords and Gentlemen, *• His Majcfty has commanded us to ac quaint you, that the state if the public bu. fmefs enables his Majesty toclofe this fefiion cf Parliament. ' (( We are, at the fame time, direeled to express to you the great fatisfaftion which his Majcfty has derived from your unremit, ting zeal and deligence, and from that at tention to the most important interefh of his empire, which has been so confpicucfly man. ifefted in allVour proceedings. 7 ■ “ The mcafares which have been adopted for the permanent improvement of the vari ous branches of Our military system, your ar tendon to combine these arrangements with the greatobjell of public economy, and the regulations which you have eftabliflied for the speedy and effcftnal audit of the public accounts, call for his Majesty's particular acknowledgements. “ Gentlemen of the Heu/e cf Commons, “ We have in cotiuoantl from his Majesty to thenk you for the provision which you have made for the various exigencies cf the pubhc fervicc, particularly by railing, with. IL ? V ? Y lar 2 e a Proportion of the necessary fupphes, a meafurc in Itfclf high. Ls !^! ag=ODS J f nd * hich must «eate, both at home and abroad, themoft favorable rmpreffion ofour national resources, &of the fyitn which amnßtes the BrkiOt pdoplc Vou may be affuted, that the utrcbtl attend non (hall be paid tothefiugal adminiftratiwi ot these fupplics which you have so Hbcully granted. “ His Majesty is particularly sensible of the frelh proof he has received of your affec tionate attachment to him, in the prov ifon which you have made for enabling the youn ger branches of his Royal Family to" meet theneceffary cxpences of their fiaticn. u My Lords and Centime?! , ( “ Hts Msjtfty being always anxicos for the reft'oratioh of peace cn just and hanorabis terms, is engaged in difethfiens wish a view to the acccmphihment of this mod defifabld trd. Their success must depend cna corres ponding difpofuion on the part of the enemy ; and in every event, his Majesty leeks with the ful!eft confidence to the continuance of that union and public spirit among all ranks i of his people, which can alene give energy to War, or lecurity to Peace." Then a commission for proroguing the Parliament was reads After w fcich the Lord Chancellor I'aid; “ My Lords and Gentlimen t i “By virtue of his Majefty ’ s Commifiicn under the Great Seal* to us and other Lords directed, and now read, we do* in his Ma. jetty’s name, and in obedience to his con;* manes, prorogue this Parliament to Thurs, day, the 28th day of August next, to be then here hcldtn : and this Parliament is at, cordingly prorouged to Thuifday, the 28th day oi August ucm/* The French aie fending all their difoofa ble force on the other ftde cf the Alps, so the Neapolitan territory, or Dalmatia, evi dently far the intended terqueft cf Sicily, and to extend ihe/Ficnch power on the Ihoie of the Adriatic. A divider of French trobps has also £i#d off towards Leghorn, and every fortrefs In the States of the Church is occupied by them —a prelude to the downfall ol both these so. vercigns. Before the expiration of many weeks wc (hall hear that the Pope and the cf Etruria have been deprived of their • refp&ive dignities, and condensed to pass the rest of their days in obftjbmy, upon a stinted and precarious bounty. The weak, nefs of both will be alike urged for the future residence of the Pope.;; Four new loCefcighi ire talked of i« Germany, namely, the Electors of Baden, Hclfe, Hesse Darmftadt, and the Duke ot Cleves {Prince Murat.) A private letter from Hamburg furniflirs us with the following important article, in addition to this report of the American cap tain : “ The French ate preparing, it is said, to fend an army cf 60,000 men, in threedi vifions, through Aftatic Turkey, to attack the British poffeflions in the Eaft-Indiss. Can it be any pdft of the ebjeft of the ex* peditibns now fitted out in our ports, to counteratl these defignj ? k The faft failing (hip Independence, caps. Walker, arrived this morning in 40 days from Greenock. C«pr. Walker has polite ly favored us with Greenock papers to the 4th of August. London, July, 23. Mr. Pinkney, the American agent, fpc. cially commifliantd by the United Stares to edjuft all differences with this country, has not yet been enabled to have an interview with Mr; Fox, in consequence of bis indif, pofiticni and Mr. Pinkney bas been in Erg. land three weeks. July 27. Yesterday a bag of letters was received at the Poft.Office* from Holland, with accounts to the 24th inst. One from Amsterdam of that date, mentions that Louis Bonaparte had, in a numerous company, dated, that the negociations for peace now carrying on between the courts of Paris and London, included Holland, Spain and the Allies cf France generally ; that thiy were proceed ing with the most amicable disposition on both (ides; and that he was assured, that the French Emperor would pay the rood friendly * eonfideration to ths interests of Holland. It was believed at Amttcrdam, that Preliminaries would be signed before the clafc oftteprefent month. July 28, The messenger who arrived From Paris on Friday, is undetftced to have brought a copy of the Separate Treaty of Peace, con cluded between Ruflia and France, which is sud to have been signed yesterday fe’en r.ight. The terms are reported to be, that Russia (hall keep the Seven and that Sicily (hall remain in the hands of his Sici lian Majesty, Russia, of course, is to re cognife the late changes on the continent. July 29* Mr. Fox, we are lorry 10 fay, is so very I ill, that even the most (anguine of his friends fl have ceafcd to hope so; Ids recovery. „ L I would be abusing the public |o difgsifc the I fears that arc entertained for this able ftaret* | man.— Star, J July jO. I Both lord Lauderdale and lord H^H ara a are making preparations to fee cut cn 3 f-’ r - I tlgn million, It is not true, however, as ■ has been this morning reported, that eu-cc ■ of them has yet set off. Lord Holland, 3 is generally understood, is to proceed to ■ Madrid—Lord Lauderdale to Paris. m Pariiamcnr, ivc underhand,- meet r '* ol ‘‘ M the middle of Cfiober j but it is conn-k' I*' 1 *' ■ ly expetfted in the political circle, that > ■ dissolution will take place in the intervening ■ period.— Sun. I J al y 3 1 * . I A messenger arrived in town yeuc'y; ■ with difptchei from Par's, and 3 I