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Jttdge Walton’s Charge to tmnSrand
Jury of Tattnall couutjjjmmp ;
Gentlemen of the Grand Jutyf& t &
THE portion of the Hite whfre w*
now are, having been ererted into a coun? -
ty by law, henceforth you take your Ra
tion in the community aa such. By it
you have the exerciSe of certain privi
leges of great value. You have your
own representation in the legislature;
your tribunals of juiticc, Superior and in
lerior, at home ; and the ordering, lay
ing out and regulation of your own roads :
be Sides that ot other municipal duties cal
culated for your own convenience. These
advantages are to be appreciated by an
. early attention to those moral obligations
between man and man, which conllitute
the balls and Security of the Social con
trad. Your county is of cxtcnfivc boun
dary, but of thin population : hence the
ireeliity of a (fritter observance oS the
laws, and of the moral duties. In a Scat
tered fettlcrnent the social intercourse is
left ; and the commiftbn of crimes the
more induced, from the profpert of con
cealment and impunity. The vigilance
of the magilfrate ihould always be awake,
and the example of the house-holder,
ihoald he the lei Ton to youth. Already
docs a charge of murder exist, unfortu
nately, co.eval with your eftablilhment:
but of this wc mult not prejudge.*
By an oversight, or fume influencing
■ motive, the times for holding your infe
rior courts were not appointed by the le
gillature. Your members will no doubt
apply to have this evil remedied; when,
«:nong other things, it will become their
duty to attend to the roads. This coun.
ty, as connected with a circuit, rtiould
immediately after, open its part of the
road which is to run through the circuit.
From Montgomery court-houSe to this
place, will ncccffanly command the firft
attention. lam informed that the infe
rior court of that county has directed the
road to be laid out and opened to the ex
tent of their boundary, north of the O-
Jioopie, in the expectation that this coun
ty will do lb to meet it. This will fhort
cii the diltance, be over better ground,
and avoid fevcral frequently floodederceks,
and inconvenient ravines. It is true,
that the new road will cross Pendleton
creek, nearly equal to the main stream of
the Ohoopie; but over which abridge
mult be built; and should the county be
inadequate at present, the legilla are ought
to he applied to for aid.
The road from this, through Bulloch
county, and to Savannah, mull be sup
posed to be kept in tolerable repair, on
account of going to market; and the nc- '
cefficy of keeping it So will increase by
means of the regular riding of the cir
cults, These it is experted will be al
tered, in order to make the circuits more
compart, practicable and certain. I ha
zard tbe conjerturc that such regulation
iliay probably be—That Camden, Glynn,
M'ln'ofh, Liberty, Bryan and Chatham,
on the lea board, with Effingham, will
form the firft. Bulloch, Tattnall, Mont
gomery, Scrivcn, Burke, Jcfterfon, and
Wadiington, the Second. Warren, Han.
cock, Greene, Lincoln, Columbia and
Richmond, the third. And Clarke, Jack.
Son, Franklin, Elbert, Oglethorpe and
Wilkes, the fourth. This, however, is
merely conjerture ; but I am convinced,
from near twenty years riding, that the
present unwieldy arrangement is not cal
culated to Secure the great ends of prompt
and certain justice ; and I have confidence
therefore, that the wisdom of the legis
lature will Sec the ncccffity of an altera
tion.
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury t
The Strll principle you ate to cultivate
in all your county aflfociations is, the
promotion of harmony and mutual confi.
dence; encouraging good humour and
friendly intercourse; and thence your
incafures will be likely to prosper. In the
* Aaron Bowen, He was indifiedfor
the murder of John Staton. The fails
were Jhorily . He lived with Staton. —
H r as employed by the neighborhood as a
. wolf-killer. Got illicitly intimate with
Staton's wfr, and concerted to kill him,
Bowen pretending to have difeovered the
rovert of a wolf gangy engaged Staton
to go with him to defray them. Qoing
to the dfance of four miles, they took up
camp ; and when Staton had lain down ,
the other foot, and killed him. The evi
dence was a chain of the most conneQed
eircum/iances, amounting to demonftrati
or. ; and confirmed by a pointed confefjion.
After a lengthy inveftigationy and argu
matt of counjel much at largey occupying
a whole day y th» Jury in a few minutes
returned the prifotur GUILTY, and dc-
Jerving of Death. He was accordingly
fe''fenced to be executed on Saturday laji ,
which, no doubt, took flqce,
fct
discharge of your present duties, the bed
advice I can give you is, to make the
oath you have taken the drift rule of your
conduft, and you cannot fail to do right.
Ohoopit Mills , October 4.
PRESENTMENTS.
WE the Grand Jury for the county of
of Tattnall, on our oaths present;
id. We present as a grievance of con-
magnitude, the non-edablith
ment ol|Bttr court-house on the present
premiles, Tal rcafon of the litigious suits,
between diderent
claimants oKhe land ; which impedes the
laying off tbts, and building a jail; ob
jects to excite" fettlcrs to contribute to a
better accommodation of these who are to
attend public duties at courts.
zd. We present as a grievance, the ne
glcft in a pad feflion of affemblv, in not
having our inferior courts cdablilhcd, by
which the laying off and opening our pub
lic roads, so much wanting, cannot be
effefted.
3d. We present as a c grievance, the
want of a proceflionary aafeertain
the boundaries of original surveys ; a large
number of our laborious citizens, as well
in this, as adjoining counties, it is believ
ed, are fettled on them. The innumera
ble number of surveys made at different
periods; and lines interfefting with lines,
prove the neccflity of legidative delibe.
ration and interference.
4'h. We present as a grievance, that
the tax returns are not made in the coun
ties refpeftively where the land lies ; and
our county tax returns made difficult to
affifs.
jrh. We present as a grievance, that
all other new counties in the date, here
tofore laid off have been indulged with
confiderahle appropriations, far the pur.
pofc of crofting their public buildings ;
which by the late aft refpefting our coun.
ty is debarred the advantage.
We humbly thank his honor Judge Wal
ton for his assiduity and attention to the
duties of our present court; and with
heart.felt fatisfaftion, also thank him for
his excellent charge to the grand jurors
thereof. And requed that his honor’s
charge, together with these presentments,
be immediate printed in the date gazette;
and that a copy thereof be transmitted to
the fpcaker of the house of reprefenta
lives of the ensuing general afl’embly.
JESSE EM BRIE, Foreman,
And all the Grand Jury.
Which were ordered accordingly.
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PHILADELPHIA, October 8.
' Yederday arrived the Ihip George,
captain Rice, from Cape Francois, who
informs us that on the 16th ult. all the
troops, with the Teamen and marines from
on board the (hips of war, were marched
out of the town to check the motions of
the negroes, who were advancing towards
the Cape. On the seventeenth, at four
o'clock in the morning, a gun was fired,
and soon after, about halfway up a hill,
a few miles from the harbor, the battle
commenced, and he, with the people on
board the veffcls in the harbor, could
plainly fee the firing from boih fidcs,
which continued very sharp till nine o’
clock. They could perceive fomc time
before the conclusion, that one party re
treated down the hill; and when the fir
ing ceased, both parties appeared to be in
the valley ; from which circumdance, the
seamen on board the veffcls, suppose the
French retreated. Captain Rice mention
ed the obforvation to a French officer, who
was faying they beat the negroes, when
the officer laid, ** it was one retrogade
motion.” On the nineteenth, there was
another aftion between the French and
negroes near the fame place, which laded
between two and three hours, but all was
kept secret—but reports fay, had the late
reinforcement been detained a month long
er, the negroes would by this, have been
maders of the island.
The blacks were continually commit
ting depredations around the Cape; they
even dole the horses of general Boyer,
commandant at the Cape and second in
command on the island.
On the eighteenth of September in the
evening was brought to the Cape, by sea,
loaded with chains, a black called general
Charles Bellair, whom it was reported
(for at the Cape you have no certain in.
telltgence of any tranfaftion) was appoint,
ed by the blacks to be their commander
and successor to Touffaint—-Deffalines,
(whofome fay was jealous of him) having
received, or pretended to have received
information that Bellair was building a
fort on his plantation, detached a body of
men, seized him and sent him to the Cape.
The arrerre for the trial of Bellair,
capt. Rice informs us was suspended by
LeClerc, but for what rcafon was not
1 publicly known.
Arrived at this port, late last evening,
the fall failing (hip Fanny, capt. M‘Ali
dcr, from Amtterdam, and late from
Cowes, in 35 days. Captain M‘Aiifter
brings London dates to the 25th August,
being a few davs subsequent to our lad
accounts. Thcfc however, do not furnifh
any thing materially new or interesting,
if we except one article, which is an ar
rette of the French government, prohi
biting the entry and circulation in the
Republic, of British newspapers. The
English prints in noticing this extraordi
nary decree, upbraid the French Govern,
ment with cowardice, they having origi
nally thrown out the gauntlet, being firft
to make a pusillanimous retreat from the
conteft.—lt is obvious, that Buonaparte
in adopting this mcafure, could not have
passed a severer farcafra on the pretended
liberty of the French people. New (pa
pers arc not alone excluded, but all En
glilh works of a periodical defeription,
are interdicted. This art is an outrage on
the common sense of the French nation,
as it involves one of two difgraceful prin
ciples ; either that the French people have
not fufficient underltanding to refill the
errors ol the British writers, or that the
latter possess ideas of liberty too refined
for the meridian of Paris. In cither case
it is alike humiliating to the national cha
rarter. It is a bold Hep towards carry
ing them back to that Hate of vaffalagc
and barbarism in which the pursuits of lite
rature were confined to particular “ ferts,"
and the human mind overclouded with
bigotry and superstition.
By a Liverpool Price Current, of the
2Sth of August we find that American
produce dill continues very low at that
market—consequently there is no demand.
The crops of grain throughout Great. Br
itain and France, are said to be more pro
durtive than they have been for many
years'.
WILMINGTON, Odol>en 3 .
(( Blow ye the trumpet in Zion /”
We have the supreme fatisfartionof an
nouncing to our readers, and to the citizens
of the United States, the complete TRI
UMPH in thisJlate of GENUINE DE.
MOCRATIO REPUBLICAN PRIN .
CIPLES over FEDERAL ARISTO .
C RACY and TORYISM in the elect*,
on of Ceasar A. Rodney and the re.
jetllon of James A. Bayard— the for
mer has been chosen, by a majority of
fifteen votes, to represent this (la te in the
Congress of the United States, in place
of the latter who has misrepresented it for
5 years pad,
WASHINGTON CITY, Odoher 6.
On Monday the Prefxdent of the Unit,
ed States arrived in this city from Mon
ticello. His fellow-cituens will hear
with pleasure that he is in good health.
The London Morning Pod, fays that
*' Liberty has been dripped of her old cap
in France, and made, like a nun, to wear
a veil) as an emblem that no man will be
allowed to possess her."
An elegant travellingcarriage has been
lately prepared for the fird consul of
France, which contains a bed, library,
writing table, and a small fcrvicc of plate ;
the carriage is lined with thin copper, or
cotnpofuion metal, so that a ball cannot
penetrate it.
Odoler 8.
We learn that Mr. King, by the leave
of government, was to have left England
about the twentieth of Augull lad, on a
tour to the continent of Europe, and that
he would be absent two or there months.
Mr. Chridopher Gore, one of the com
missioners of the United States, under the
seventh article of the late treaty with
England, arts, during Mr. King’s ab
fcnce, as the Charge-des-Affaires of the
United States at London.
We underdand that Mr. Otto, the
French minider to this country, will not
leave England till February next, when
Mr. Merry, the minider for England, will
also leave Paris; and that in the spring
both will repair to the United States.
A letter has been received from the con
sul of the United States for the kingdom
of Morocco, dated July 27, dating, that
in consequence of the overtures which
had been made to him on the part of
the emperor of Morocco, and of the
contents of dispatches received by him
from the government of the United States,
by the frigate Adams, which was but
lately arrived to Gibraltar, he had return
ed to his poll at Tangiers; and that he
was about commencing a ncgociation for
the termination of hoftiiities between Mo
rocco and this country. But heexpreffes
no opinion as to what will be the result.
Extract of a letter from Aux-Cayes, dat
ed August :9k
ft I am very forty toiniorm you of the
troubles here. This day several vessels
have arrived from Sr. Louis, loaded with
women and children. The blacks have
got poflellion of the fori there, though not
of the town. The inhabitants of this
place are very much alarmed as there a - e
no troops to protect them. Bufincfs
wholly at a Hand, and I am fearful of a .-
embargo. The seamen from the Arneri,
can veifcls ate ordered on (here to kco
guard. I hope that the flurry will b
loon over.
QSiober 13.
We understand that letters have L e >n
received in this country from Algiers, as
late as the 71b of July, which fuxnilh the
following information ;
r l'he Dey of Algiers has demanded of
the American Consul to aired the Untied
States frigate the George Wafliington, to
be brought to Algiers, tor the purpose of
being tent by the Dey to Conftantmople,
to transport a quantity ot spars and other
articles. The Consul remonstrated, but
in vain. r l he Dcy directed him to write
immediately, and obtain an anfwcr as soon
as polfible.
On the evening, however, of the fame
day, the Dcy informed the Consul, that
coniidering the great distance of the Unit,
ed States, he had determined to call upon
the Consuls of nearer nations* Such dc.
mand is flared to have been made of the
Spanilh and Danilh Consuls.
On the 26th June, a Tripolitan cor.
fair, w ith the American Franklin as
a prize, arrived at Algiers, The claim
of the Consul for a rclioration of the vcf.
fel and crew, had not on the 7th of July
fuccecdcd.
On the 16th of June three (hips of the
line and two frigates ol Spain threatened
a blockade of Algiers, and demanded all
captured Spanish veflels. The Dcy threat
ened war against Spain, which was only
averted on the following terms : The
payment, in money and presents, to the
amount of 132,000 dollars; a renuncia
tion by Spain of her claim to captured
veflels and cargoes ; and a departure ot the
Spanilh fleet.
On the 2zd of June, in an interview
with the British Consul and Sir Robert
Barlow, the Dey demanded a change of
the Biitilh pftlports, and a compliance
with his old claim 01187,000 dollars,
declared if these terms were not complied
with in five months, he would make war
against England.
On the 30th of June, The Dey de
manded of'lhanviilc, the French agent,
sums, alledged to be due, or promised,
amounting to 500,000 dollars, and threat,
ened war against France, if nut complied
with in 40 days.
It is further flared, that Algiers and
Tunis are on the verge of a war.
PETERSBURG, OAober 5.
ExtraS? of a letter from Charlottesville ,
to the Editor of the Virginia Argus,
dated Sept . 24-th, 1802.
** A very novel decision took place in
the Dillrift Court at this place a few day*
pafl. A confiderablc number of present
ments were made by the grand jury,
mostly for unlawful gambling. Amongst
those presented was a Mr. W. G. G. a
gainst whom fcveral presentments were
made at fomc of the preceding courts, as
well as one on the firft day of this court.
The grand jury being adjourned over to
the tecond day, he was again presented
for opening a pharo-bank the preceding
night; the court iflued a process and had
him taken and brought before them, and
after binding him in a recognizance for his
good behavior for twelve months, with
two securities, proceeded to try him under
the vagrant aft, when he was by the court
deemed a vagrant, and committed to the
cuflody of the fhcrlff to be delivered to
the overseers of the poor, and by them to *
be fold, for the term of one month, for
the belt price to be had, and the money
to be applied to the use of the poor of the
parilh.—lt is fincercly to be wilhed that
this example of the Diflrift Court may be
Itriftly followed by all our courts having
jurifdiftion over fuel) cases, that such
mortifying examples may be a fuiScient
warning to deter others from the ruinous
prafticc of gaming.’*
HALIFAX, i'n. c.) OSiober 4.
We have procured a copy of the follow,
ing letter to the Governor for the purpose i
of laying it before our readers, and dt
refting the attention of the members eleft
ed to serve in the General Alterably to a
fubjeft perhaps more interesting to the :
state of Nortli-Carolina, than any thing
which has arisen since the Revolution
which cftablilhed our Independence. It
is expefted that the gentlemen who have
charged themselves with the care of the
public interests, will avail themselves of
every opportunity to procure the ueceflary
information refpefting the supposed title
of the heir or devifees of Earl Granville,
as well as the grounds and principles, on
which the state rests her claim to this im
portant portion of her territory.