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-tj'y of powder, lead and arms, to enaMe
them to go to war with fume other tribe,
‘ which had been troub’efome to them. Find
ing that Congiefs had adjourned, they have
applied to our AiTembiy, who has come to a
resolution to grant them a ftipply of powder
and lead, which we hope they will use to
wards the protection of our fouthwcit bre
thren.
CHARLESTON, Nov 21.
The date of Virginia will not mike more
than half a crop of tobacco this season, ow
ing to nipping froils late in the spring.
Notwithstanding the depredations of Indian
parties in the Bate of Georgia, the frontier
Continues greatly to incteale in if length a
great number of persons coming there to fet
tle from the northern dates.
The ladies of Boftbn, in honor of the Pre
sident of the United States, agreed, on his
arrival at that place, to wear the following
device in a lath —a broad white ribbon, with
G. W in gold letters or spangles encircled
with a laurel wreath in front—on one end of
the fafli to be painted the Amer can Eagle, and
the other a Flew delis.
The deciiive condutl of the Court of Spain,
in ordering a squadron to clear the Southern
ocean of vefiels that may be found there
whaling, Is a measure that has occasioned
much animadversion in the Englilh prims,
some of them loudly accnfe Mr. Pitt of pu
fillanimity in negiefting'to take such Heps in
this bulTnefs as the honor and interert of that
nation call for ; his particular friends, how
ever, give out that a negotiation is opened
on this in ereiting UibjeCt.
The Englilh turn every thing into Berlins—
nm only the head of the governor of the Baftite
has been shewn in London at so much a light,
but now forlboth they have got the very Bt
ftile itfelf, with the whole city of Paris—die
grand proceffion —and the ftorining of that
famous caflle, into London, ail of which are
exhibited on the stage !
Add refs of the Governor and Council of the
ccm nOHvjeahb of Maffacbufctts , to the Fre
fluent of the United iiiatcs.
SIR,
WE meet you at this time with onr hearts
replete with the warmed affetfion and efteenl,
to express the high famfaction we feel in jour
viFit to the commonwealth of Mallachutetts.
We can never forget the lime, when m the
earlieit hags of the war, and the day of our
gre aeft calamity, we law you at the head of
the army of the United States commanding
ttoops though then uudifcipLn
ed, by your wifdotn and valour, pi eventing a
sanguinary and well appointed army of out
enemies from fpreadtng devastation through
our country, and sooner thm we had tealon
to expert, obliging them to abandon the ca
pital. .
We have Fi:ce seen you in your htg.i com
mand, superior to the gteateit fatigues ana
ltardlhips, fucccfsfuHf conducing our armies
through a long war, until our enemies were
compelled to submit to terms of peace, an<l
acknowledge that independence winch the
United States in Congiefs allembled had be
fore aliened and proclaimed.
We now have the pleasure of feeing you
in a Bill more exalted Bat ion, to which you
have been elected by the unanimous iullrages
; >f a free, virtuons and grateful country.
From that attachment which you maiufeiriy
difeovered, whilemyour military command,
to the civil liberties ol your country, we do
afTure otirfelves that you will ever retain this
great object in yur view, and th*t your ad
mioiftration will he happy and profperotis.
jt is our earned prayer that the divine be
nediction may attend you here and hereafter,
and we do lincerely willi that you may, thro
this life, coutinue to cr.joy that greatclt of
earthly bleffiug, to be accepted by the multi
ttde of your brethren.
Council Chamber » Bojlon , 0 27.
To bit Excellency tbe Governor, and tie Non
Membert of Counttl cf tbi omtnou wa.tb
of Majfacbujtttt,
Gtuilenten,
TO communicate the peculiar p'esfu re
which I receive from ,our ifccHoiw. *el.
mine o< roe ro the commuiroea'ili «f M‘ '•
require! e tuiM us e*|)itir....i be
yuuj ilul wllith I (ivlfcu* I ' H'* I *'
ftt! for your goodness towards ms, art 1 T
to thank you with the unfeigned liticcrety of a
feeling heart.
Your obliging remembrance of my mili.
tary fervlces is among the highest compcnfa
tions *hi ycan receive, and if rectitude of in
tention may authorize the hope, the favour
able anticipation, which you are please 1 to
express of my civil administration, will not,
I trull be disappointed.
It is your happiness, gentlemen, to prefi le
in the councils of a commonwealth, where
the pride of independence is well aflitnilatcd
with the duties of society, and where the m
duftry of the citizen gives the fviileft allurance
of public refpe-M and private prosperity. I
have obLrved too, with lingular
so becoming an attention to the militia of tiic
Bate, as presents the faireft profpert of sup
port to the invaluable objects of national fafe
ty and peace.
Long may these blcdings be continued to
the commonwealth of Mallachufeits! and
may you, gentlemen, in your individual ca
pacities, experience every fatisfaetjon, whidi
can relult from public honor or private happi
n els.
G. WASINGTON.
, Bojlon, OSI. 27.
AUGUST A, December i $
To the Citizens of the St die oj
Georgia. j
A S the Bill for disposing of/rhe weflern
jL te,rKOJ 7 to the different companies
from Virginia, North 1 and Sotuh-
Carolina, is of’tlie importance to this
State, ar. l alTerts yf.v^ r nteteßs m a very par
ticular manner-- » kve CJtm °t forbear giviug our
reasons ix: having duiented to i s paiTiii/'fn
to a la«r» not0nl ? in our own vmtf&tion, as
member 18 'l !e Leg Mature oi*t that you
may hf~ v '
rou «/ ,e *° ( m 3 Noilly interclted. -We con
ce,v wi t °' f>e a duty i* ncurn bent upon 11-, to
Vy I 3 !?yS the public the proceedings on this
occA' 1 and leave you to judge of the pro
priety of our conduit, and what mult be the
confequcncc to this country from a measure
so haitsly adopted by two branches of the Le
gilLmire.—To he lilent, would make a very
unfavourable impreßion on the public mind,
and our constituents would naturally conclude
that the rights of (Georgia have been di pose i
oj by the r Rcpiefentativcg w thout oppolition,
and in excluli »n of her own citizens.
When the Legißature met, and for some
time n4ter, there were no applications to pur
chase the welieiu territory; but on the 20th
day of November, petitions from Virginia,
Suuih-Caroiina and North-Cat olitia, were
piefented to the Senate by persons in behalf
ot the laid companies, fe.ting forth the ad
vantages that would arif? to Georgic f.om
difpoliug <>t it, and offering to put chafe on
certain conditions. A bill soon alter origi
nated m the Senate, to dispose of the land to
the applicants, aud was sent to the House of
Keprelentatives on Monday the 7th of Decem
ber. On the next day it was read the firß time,
in preference to ti e judi.iarj billy which had
been before the House for several days, and
it was made the order of the day to be read
the fecoad tunc on the Saturday following ; a
committee wjsaifo appointed “ to report fpe
“ dally on the merits and proportions of ti e
*• different companies jiropofing to become pur
“ chasers of thejfaid territory ” —Osi Saturday,
though the House had bee 1 in committee of
the whole for two days befoie 011 the Judici
ary bill, and which Bill continued to be in
order until it was gone through, a motion
was made to polfpone it, to introduce th.i
ferond reading of the bid for disposing of the
territory, which palled in the adirmative,
ays 15, nays 11, and the bill was according
ly tea-1 a lecond time. —A moriu was mime
dia ely after made to read the bill a thi'd
i.me, when the pievious queltion was cad-* <
lo', ami it pafTed in th; negative, ares 11
nays 16 ; another motion was made that the
third reading of the laid bill Ihould be pmt
poned until Monday, to give time to a com
mittee to coulider and lepoit upon ccifaiti
proportions made b> the Georgia company
fur the purpose of purchasing the said ter*
ritory, which was 1011, aye* '4, n.iys 151
• and a motior wa* again made to pio*
retd to the third reading cf the said bill,
when ib* queftioo waa lode On ToeAJiythf
! 1 rtli iuttiui. Hi a vet/ !ai« l*9ur # ii -via
| r
, moved and carried to resolve the House infft
a committee of the whole on the the third
reading of\die bill, which alter tome debate
was reiitiqiiifhed, by die majority ; who corW
f»nte-l to putfpoue it till the next morning —*'
Ihe bill wa» taken tip on he day following,
and in comm ttce of ihe whole, a motion
was made to iufert the Georgia compat.v w'tth
the other applicants, which, w ith so ne other
m itious to change and incicafe the fura, as
well as to secure the payment of it wete uni*
form! y negatived, which in luced the niiujri
ty at bit to i ifrr the bill ;o pass as it caine
from me aeuate, without oifciiug any fur
ther amendments. —Thus, in the course of
tune days, a hill of so much importance to
Georgia was precipitated through the Hoof a
of Rcprelematives, am) every at’empt t<>
make the lead amendment to it was frullra’t*
ed. We cannot avoid observing. tint we
have alwa»s coniidcred the sale of this tern
tory, comprehending opwaids of fijutr mil-
Itom »f acres of the moll valuable land with*
m: this*date, both as to foil and fitnation, ail
highly imerediug to Georgia; ami
that, loaded with a foreign and dome die debt,
it diould iio’re been her policy not t y have dif
p ile lof i i/o par; tally, but in such a manner
as. -fIA have made it mod productive to the
* date, and at the tame time to have given our
citizens an oppoitumty of becoming putchaf
c.s upon equal terms with those ot other
dates.
r i o briny idtoview* the value of the terri
tory difpolM of, it is only ncceffary to men
tion it 3 lunif generally, which begin at the
mouth of C’(»Vs creek, on the Midifippi, about
twenty mneoabove the Natchcs, continuing
Irom o die ;<uice thereof, thence a
durea'll course to the Tom or Don B ehy ri
ver, theme along the middle of the laid ri
ver up to the latitude 33, thence in a due east
courle one hundred and twenty mde 0 , thence
north lifty miles to ihe northern boundary,
thence due wed to the Midilippi, fuppoled to
be between the latitude of 34. and 3; degrees,
wheie it llnkes the fame —We dull only
subjoin a date of the purchase by he tefpec
uve companies ot Virginia, No, *li-f arolin.i
and South-Ca*olnia, with that ofTe e i by the
company from Georgia, which was rclufed ;
and obl'erve, that if the bill fhotild paG into
an aft, the puichalers will have the pre-emp
tion lefetved for two years, in which time
they will fettle on the laud, and thereby fir
cute to themfclves their rights to it, and the
date will not have the smalled security for the
payment of the lum fttpulaied sot as the pur
chase of tl<e territory.
Pay went! propojd by the Georgia Company for
the IPtfern [etrnory.
5000 dollars, fpccie, fay, rice
at ns pcrcwt. tobacco at
14s. perewt.. yT.ii66 13 4
14.c001, in the paper medium
of this date, at 4 for 1, 3,500 0 0
200,000 dollais in Pierce’s fi
lial f&rtlcii.ent certificates,
woitir 4 for 1, 11,666 13 4
Eflimatcd at the aftual fpccie
rates, £ 16,333 6 $
The Virginia, South-Carolina
and Tcncllce companies,
aie to pay together the sum
of 207,580 dollais, which
may he paid in (he audited
ccnificates 01 th s date, at
present barely worth eight
for one. 6054 6 o
Balance in favor of the Geor
gia proposals, jT. 1 0,2 79 o 8
Seaborn jone«,
James Armdiong,
Jofuh Bacon,
lames ( uch; in
Joseph H'.bctiham,
James Jones,
John King,
Benjamin f.anier,
John Mi Hedge,
bamuel b«i k,
I iorcme Sullivan,
Beniamin Taßafciro,
Joliab Ti'ujH,
Pcier Winn.
J't'Jla, 1 7»
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