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TaPett* L, Vast Alsjj, E/julre, Sir, 1 SHALL not attempt to vie with in the low arts of fcurrillity and a n jfe. I have too much rcfpc£i for pro priety; for the delicacy of the public ear, and for my own dignity, to call you an ihfidious rafeal, a corrupt villain, or a da stardly calumniator, but perhaps 1 may, with all imaginable case, grove you such. I shall not tell you how much you are con temned by all honed men, nor in what a despicable point of view you stand with the community in general, but perhaps of this you may be toon fcnfrble, unlefj a sense of (hame, that lad hope of expiring'" virtue, may be entirely, extinguished. In the Auguda Chronicle of the 12th ifift. in a publication fubferibed by your name, you have thought proper to make a free use of my name and reputation.— You there represent me an apoltate Preach er, an apostate Politician, and one who has been disgraced in a court of justice. These are grievous charges, and, if true, I acknowledge I deserve the execration of the community. As to the firft, I here by declare that I ant> nor, nor ever have been a preacher, much less in apnflate Preacher, in any religious focitjty what ever ; But what has religion to do with . our ccnted ? And of what consequence is 1': to the public whether 1 am, or ever save been a preacher or not ? But your fecund charge is of a na-. lure, in which the community may feel ' i*felf interelled—lt relates to*#he affairs * 'ok tins world, and I shall therefore take Notice of it. You fay I am an apoflate Politician. To ellablilh this politico, ‘ /on mud prove that I once supported a certain set of political opinions; that I have since dlfcarded those opinions, and now support a <vuorJe set. Every change ts Trot apodacy—-it mud be a change tor th tnuor/e, to deserve that hardi appellati on. But I (hall not put it upon that iflue. f deny that my political principles have undergone a change at all. My opinions rgfpeiting government are the fame novs r]iat they were seven years pad, whenHji fettled permanently in this (late. 1 toy man to prorje any inconsistency my political conduft. 1 have had once .the honor of being in t,he legislature, I bn that occasion I afted with inte grity and indeptndetice, nor have I heard •fiat the contrary has been suggested. My opinion of men may have changed, but my political principles remain unchanged. To what, fir, do you allude, when you date that I have been disgraced in a court of judice ? Have I ever been pre-__ fented by a grand jury for negleft of uu as an officer of court ? Have / ever been-obliged to beg adinifiion to, and sup. plicate a>grand inquest tofpare me in their prefen tbjeuts for mal-praftice in office ? Or to what do you allude ? If you have any allusion to my condufl towards Mr. f><»k, I do here prated, that 1 never doubted one moment of the fairnefs and propriety of my conduft towards this man. If an hod Ihould rife up against me on this account, I would dill fold my arms in tranquility, and smile at a midak. cn world. 1 know lam right, and that In every stage of that business, I have aid ed with proper motives. I believe I have received uniformly the approbation of my friends, and all the impartial who know the circumstances of that case. If there are any who have doubts on this fub jeft, I have in my pofleffion the mod ample documents (to which they may have rc- Course for fatisfaftion) and which will fandiou my agency in the whole of that sffarr. ■ I thought the reason, why I did not attend court on the lad day of the term, was perfeftly understood by every body about Wafhingron. My call on you, had, b yyour means, become public. It was supposed the civil authority was about to Interfere ; for that reason, and that alone, by the advice of my friends, I did not*” go out on that day ; nor did I change my room, as you have meanb > suggested. Having thus attended to your base at tempt to injure me, and your mean fub terfuge to hide your cowardice, I now in form you, that it was not on account of your private character, or general con dutt, that I thought you entitled to my notice, for any insult you could give me. It was becauie you have, by accident, become the Solicitor-General (the ojfice you have disgraced) and because, from a combination of circumstances, 1 thought it proper to teach others, through you, that I was not to be injured with impu nity. " As a proof of your baseness of charac ter, uegleft of duty, and corruption in office, I give to the public the following affidavits, and perhaps take my leave of you forever. You have made your retreat into the Temple of Cowardice*; it (halite to you an inviolable fan&uary. C. TAIT. Liberty June 24,1802. GEORGIA, Oglethorpe County. CHARLES STEWART being duly sworn, doth depose and fay, that some -short time previous to the superior court for this county, held in September 1800, William Patman was committed to the jail of this county, by William Strother Esq. under a charge of Healing a sum of money from Samuel Patton, (he thinks thirty-seven dollars;) that some short time after such commitment, and before '•'the futingof said court, said Patman was admitted to bail by the juttices of the in ferior court. The deponent further faith, that at the superior court aforefaid, said Patman appeared, as did also the prose cutor and witnesses, and that the depo nent having custody of the warrant and recognizances, returned them to the fo liciidr-general. Van Alen, in person ; and also faithj that previous to making such return, he was requeued by Mid dleton Brooks', one of Patman’s securi ties, to make the return privately through the window of the tourt-houfe, at .the judge’s right hand, where he, Brooks, told the deponent. Van Alen said he would be fitting ready to receive The deponent also faith, that after some hesitation on his own part as to the pro priety of it, he did go according to Brooks’s direflion, in company with said . Brooks, to the window appointed, and found the solicitor-general there, to whom, by the alfiitance ot Brooks in lifting up the deponent, he made the return through said window. And he finally faith that the reason given him by Brooks for will ing the return made in this private man ner, was, that the thing had been made up, and all charges paid. CHARLES STEWART. Sworn to before m, this 16th March, 1801. * William Strother, j. p. addition to the foregoing the fold Stewart being after wards * fur- HHBLorn, doth fay, that at return mentioned in iSfc another to make, for a#af- Iwit andftittery, which he made ih open court in the usual manner to the folicitor general, dircdly after making that above mentioned in the manner as mentioned. CHARLES STEWART, Sworn to this 1 g th March , 1801, before me , Samuel Shannon, j. p. GEORGIA, Oglithorpe County. PERSONALLY appeared before me, Middleton Brooks, and made oath that some time in the year 1800, William Patman was taken with a Hate’s warrant for theft, and was bound to appear before the superior court, September term, and this deponent became bail for his appear ance by entering into a bond, which he complied with by delivering the body of said Patman ; And after some conversati on between Peter Van Alen, Samuel Pat ton and the above Patman, he the said Van Alen said to them, the offence was trifling, and if they (meaning the parties * bound) would give him five dollars, and go to Stewart's, who was in poflcffi on of the bond, and other papers, and bring them to the back window of the court-house, he would give them up to them; which was done. This deponent further faith, that when Stewart came to the window with the papers, your deponent was obliged to lift him up to the window, where Van Alen flood to receive them, which he took in his pofl’effion, and then returned back the bond —and fuither this deponent faith not. MIDDLETON BROOKS. Sworn to before me , this igth March, 1801. Wm. Strother, j. p. From the North. Carolina Mtffenger. The conduct of Mr. Burr in the fup prefiion of the Hiflory of Mr. Adams’s Adminiflration, not being likely to un dergo a complete devclopement for some time, owing to his abfencc from home, we can only at present give our readers a few extra&s from the ** Narrative” lately publiflied in New-York—They follow : “ Mr. Wood, the writer of the fup preflfed hiflory, and Mr. Barr have long been intimate. When the latter firlt heard that the former was about to write v a hiflory of the adminiflration of Mr. Adams, he exprefled a desire to fee him on the fubjeft. Accordingly an inter view was had, but for what particular purpofc, is not precisely afeertained. It is, however, known, and ailerted as true. that Mr. fiorr furnilhcd Mr. Wood with materials for writing his own biography, which is a maftcr piece of the hyperbolic, and exhibits in Mr. Burr, to whom the biography of himfell was submitted by Mr. Wood for infpcffiqp, no common degree of vanity. His revolutionary ser vices, which were so trifling as toefcape the notice of the writers of the different histories of the (American) revolution now extant, were so represented by Mr. Wood, as to dazzle the reader with the brilliancy of his exploits. The painting was undoubtedly fine, but it no charafferiftic of the original. ’' “On the 4th or sth of December, 1801, Mr. Burr, after the projeff ot the new Philadelphia Bank was complet ed, returned to New. York. The hifto ry was then ready for sale, and was to have been issued to the public the follow ing week. One of the firft enquiries was about it, and Mr. Wood was requested by Mr. Burr to bring a copy of it to his house, that he might peruse the charafter of himfelf, previous to the publication of the hiftory. The request was complied with, and Mr. Burr either dilcovered, or pretended to have difeovered, some errors in the biography refpeffing dates. He very sagaciously felicitated hitofelfon the difeovery before the hiftory was giv en to the public; desired Mr. Wood to leave the copy with him, and promised (after efte errors of date were correffed) to defray the expence of printing a new (beet of his life and exploits. These er rors would have made Mr. Burr about ! 50, whereas, he stated, he was not more than 45 years of age. Viewing matters prospectively, it was deemed of some consequence to correct the mifdate. 4 To one who is looking forward to the Prefi dcncy, to gain, at the age of fifty, five years on the fide of youth, is no inconsi derable acquisition, “According to promise, Mr. Wood waited on Mr. Burr the following morn, ing, to receive the copy with the correc tions : some evil genius, however, had prompted Mr. Burr to read the volume throughout, and more errors were difeo vered. These wove enumerated to Mr, Wood with great apparent candor and sincerity. It was objfeffed, that the cha faffers of Mr. Hamilton, C. C. Pinck ney, Jonathan Dayton and General Wafli ington, were not accurately delineated; and it was added with great tenderness , that the book contained many libellous passages. He therefore enquired whether an agreement could not be made with Barlals *and Ward [the bookfeliers for whom Mr. Wood wrote it] to suppress it? He conceived that the cha rafter of Mr. Hamilton was misrepresented, mean ing that where ehcomium was bestowed upon him it was unmerited; that Mr. C. C. Pinckney, who was reprffented by Mr. Wood as a person of less integrity than Mr. Hamilton, was 2 man oi purer principle than any other in the Union. Upon General Washington, undeserving eulogiums, he said, had been lavi(bed; and that during his, Prcfidcncy he had evinced himfelf a jierfon poffefled of un bounded vanity, without talents either as a soldier or scholar. Continuing his criticifins, Mr. Wood, he observed, had wholly mistaken the character of the then Hon. Jonathan Dayton. The character given by Mr. Wood of Mr. Adams he it was a bad one, and he thought it repr\ffentative of the ex-president. Mr. Eurrreferved his critical remarks on the cha rafter given by Mr. Wood of Mr. ; Jefferfon to the last. This he did not | think exaffly ciefcriptive of that illuftrions ■ person. He observed that Mr. Jefferfon was not a man of genius ; he was a plod ding, mechanical person, of little aftivity of mind, and poflelTed of a judgment not very diferiminative. Mr. Jefferfon, he said, had also another very great failing; he courted and was fond of popularity ! He suggested to Mr. Wood the proprie ty of writing his charaffer anew, and promised to furnifh him with faffs rela tive to Mr. Jefferfon which were little known to the public, and which would be found exceedingly interesting! Re fpeffing the libellous passages contained in the hiftory, Mr. Burr was mure: He did not even condescend to mention one of them. His foul Teemed abforhed in difpofmg of certain charaffers, as Buona parte disposes of petty nations, to grati fy his ambition, and to exalt his own.” “ Byway of fupcrinducemcnt, he stat ed that faffs would transpire in Congress in the coarse of tenor twelve days, which would aftoniib the nation, and convince Mr. Wood that the notions he had en tertained of the various charaffers was erroneous.” [The circumstantial account is conti nued, until a bargain is made, and a writing signed by Mr, Wood, binding 'I ' , * *■ I I him not to poblltli nor caufc to b e „, lilhed aay fart of the ut Pprt !H hiC It had been previously enjoined onl7’ not to mention the name of Mr 3'°* as connected with the suppression. Th’rJ? the agency of Mr. Wood, Messrs. B a s lass and Ward are induced to give be j for the suppression of the publication f which they are paid one thousand d o h ais ° r and the whole edition of 1250 cop i e5 removed from Mr. Ward’s book-ft or ! 1 the house of Mr. Wra. P. Van Nefs 1 between four and five o’clock in morning.} r 06 ,“lt is fearful (fays the Narrative) t 0 refled upon what our condition would i„ all probability be, were Mr. Burr at the head of our government. If Mr. Adams could do so much, how much more could Mr. Burr, effeft ? It cannot be concealed that he is a man of defperare fortune • bold, enterprising, ambitious and in! triguing j thrilling for military glory and Buonapartian fame. A man ot no fixed principle, no consistency cf charafter, 0 f contraded views as a politician, of bound, less vanity, and Uillcfs of the public good : one who is pursuing with an appe, tire keen as death, and a hand Heady as time, pcojedi disputable to himfclf, and injurious to the country.” PROPOSALS for carrying the Mails of the Unlui States, on the Jollovomg Pqf}.Roais t 'will be received at the General Pofi. Office in WaJhingtOHy until the twenty, ffilji day sf July next incluft ve. IN GEORGIA. 48, From Washington by Burroughs’s, EPxington, Athens and Clarklburg, to Jackson c. h. once a week—Leave Walh. ington every Wedriefday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Jackson c. h. on Thursday by 6 p. M. —Leave Jackson c. h. every Friday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Walhington on Saturday by 6 p. m. NOTES. 1. The Post-Master General may ex. pedite the mails and alter the times of ar rival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contrad, he previ oafly stipulating an adequate compcnfati on for extra expence that may be oc cafioncd thereby. 2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and doling the mail at all officci where no particular time is fpscified, 3. For minutes delay (un avoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times , preferibed in any contract, the contraftor ijiall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continue until the departure of any depending mail, whereby the mails destined for such depending mail, lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dol lars (hall be incurfed. 4. Newspapers as well as letters are to be tent in the mail; and if any person making proposals, desires to carry news. papers other than those conveyed in the mail, for his own emolument, he must state his proposals, for what sum he will carry it with that emolument, and for what sum without that emolument. 5. Should any person making proposals, desire an alteration of the times of arri val and departure above fpecificd, lie muH Hate in his proposals the alterations defi ed, and the difference they will make in the terms of his contra ft* 6. Persons making proposals are desir ed to Bate their prices by' the year. r lhofe j who cot:traft will receive their pay quar j terly, ia the months of February, May | August and November, one month alter the expiration of each quarter. /. No other than a free white person (hail be employed to convey the mail. 8. Where the proposer intends to con vey the mail in the body of a stage car * riage, lie is desired to state it in his p r0 * petals. 9. The Post-Master General reserves to himfdf the right of declaring any con tract at an end whenever three failures happen, which amount to the loss of l trip each, 10. The contracts for the above routes are to he in operation on the firft day Oftober next; thole for the firft twenty? four routes are to continue in force foront year from that time, and those numbetw fiom 29 to 48 are to continue until the 31st day of March, 1803. GIDEON GRANGER, Pafl.MaJler General, General Pojl-Offiee , IViajhington ci/y, June 2, ISO 2. —* gCJ- ONE thousand bufliek of CHARCOAL is wanted at Good Aie. OSWELL EVE Si Co.