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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. gs = igs = ! -- "-Ts ======= 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.