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B'tunsttiick DAVIS <fc SHORT, PUBLISHERS. VOLUME X. The ISrtntsirirk •Mr or ate , Is published every Thursday Morning, in the city of Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia, at $3 pet annum, in ad ranee, or $4 at the end of the year. .No subscriptions received for a less term than six months and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid except at the option of the ; publishers. Jj’fMl letters and communications to the Kditor or Publishers in relation to the paper, must be POST PAID to ensure attention. O’ AD VERTISEMENT3 conspicuously in- ; sorted at One Dollar per one hundred words, ' for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents forev- : ery subsequent continuance —Rule and figure work always double price. Twenty-five per cent, added, if not paid in advance, or during the continuance of the advertisement. 4 hose > sent without a specification of the number of insertions will be published until ordered out, j and charged accordingly. Lerai. Advertisements published at the j usual rates. q-p* N. B. Sales of Land, by Administrators,' Executors or Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house in the county in which the property is situate.— j Notice of these sales must be given in a public { gazette, Sima Dais previous to the day of sale. Sales of Negroes must be at public auction, on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual hours of sale, at the place of public sales j in the county where the letters testamentary, j of Administration or Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving sixty days notice thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court-house, where such sales are to be held. Notice for the sale of Personal Property, must be given in like manner, Forty days previous to the day of sale. j Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Es late must be published for Forty days. Notice that application will be made to the j Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, must be published for Four Months. Notice for leave to sell Negroes, must be published for Four Months, before any order absolute shall be made thereon by the Court. TI E L L \ \ 1. From the Old Colony(Massachusetts)Memorial. ! INCIDENTS OF THE REVOLUTION. Great and important events should ev er be kept in memory, and also he often spoken of, and likewise he instilled into the minds of our children, and by them transmitted to their children, and handed down from generation to generation, to the latest posterity. j The American Revolution, taking into view the importance of its object, the in- j justice of the British claims that gave rise j to it, the unprepared state of the colonists j to engage in such an important, such a i difficult, such a dangerous enterprise, is j an event that stands alone in the pages of j history, and which ought never to be for-! gotten hut should be among the first j things implanted in the minds of our cliil-' dren. It is true they can never have the | , same sensations in" contemplating the sub- { jects as those who lived at the time of the I event, and participated in the efforts, the! toils, and the dangers of the enterprise ; J yet they may have some lively ideas of the ; ‘exertions, the toils, the dangers, and the j successes of their progenitors, in obtain- i " ing for them the high and the dignified : - situation in which they stand in the scale l*of nations, and of the blessings they en *joy of which all the residue of the world ,do not participate, but are ignorant. I was led to these reflections by taking i a review of old times, particularly of an ‘event which took in the year 1774, ! (•sixty years ago last September, which is j %>robably now forgotten, or perhaps was ! piever known but to a very few, whose! ;«ives have been lengthened out to this j lime. This was the open overt act done | in the face of day without disguise, (in I the controversy with Great Britain,) which, (according to the British jurisprudence, I * Ivould be called treason.—This origina-1 ted and was consummated in the Old ; Colony. k? The British Parliament, in their mad ! ■Career, had assumed a right to mutilate llie charter of Massachusetts, which was j a solemn contract between the King on one part, and the Province on the other ;j but a thing to which the Parliament was : jot a party, nor was it under any autlior j%v from them, and with which they had j ■o more right to intermeddle than the ‘ Bonzes of Japan. But this authority they assumed, by an act, took from the Jtlouse of Representatives the right to ; 4hoose the Council, (granted to them by Aar ter,) and authorised the King to ap point the Council by his mandamus ; and Authorized the Sheriffs of the several 1 Aunties to appoint the Juries, instead of swing drawn out of the jury-box by the | Selectmen, as was provided by law. This 1 ‘S&ve an universal alarm, and involved the j jweat body of the people in the most per- j agitation and perplexity.—They ' mere not insensible of the dangers atten-! J#ig an opposition, and at the same time ! tAuld not for a moment endure the idea I A submitting to this notorious violation 1 A their rights. They viewed the matter every point, and considered that noth % could be so bad as tame submission: as the Court of Common Pleas was! to be holden at Barnstable the first Tues day in September, they determined to be gin with that first, and prevent that Court from doing any bussiness. Accordingly, a considerable body of men from Middlehorough, more from Ro chester, and many from Wareham, on the Mondav preceding inarched to Sandwich. 11 ere they were joined by a considerable part of the population of Sandwich. The latter part of the day and the evening were spent in organizing the body, and estab lishing rules and Regulations. Dr. Na thaniel Freeman was unanimously chosen the conductor-in-chief of the enterprise, and officers of lower grade were appointed. Freeman (afterwards a Brigadier Gener al) was a fine figure of a man, between BO and 40 years of age. He had a well made face, a llorid countenance, a bright, dignified eye, a clear and majestic voice ; he wore a handsome black lapelled coat, a tied wig as white as snow, a set-up hat with the point inclined a little towards the right hand. In short, he had the ap pearance of fortitude personified. On Tuesday morning, the body marched to Barnstable, and were there joined by a considerable part of the population of that town, making in the whole about 1,500, as was estimated. They took pos session of the ground in front of the Court House in a solid condensed body. The conductor took his stand on the steps of the Court House door. Commission ers were appointed to ferret out the dis affected, and to bring them to a relinquish ment in writing of their toryism ; and, if any refused, to bring such before the body. All signed recantations, though some did it reluctantly. These recanta tions were afterwards pretty well imita ted by Trumbull in his McFingal : ‘•I now renounce the Pope—the Turk, “The King—the Devil, and all his work ! “And if you will set me at ease, “Turn Whig,or Christian—what you please.” But soon the Court made its appearance led on by the high Sheriff (Stone) with a broad cockade on his hat, a long white staff in his left hand, and a drawn sword in his right. The Court (Otis, Winslow, and Bacon) as the hodv did not give way, halted about an arm’s length from the as semblage. Col. Otis, the Chief Justice, a very venerable looking old gentleman, addressed them and said : “Gentlemen, what is the purpose for which this vast as semblage are collected here?” He was answered bv Dr. Freeman, standing on the door steps, with a loud and clear voice as it was some distance to where the Court stood : “May it please your honor—op pressed by the dangers by which we are surrounded, and terrified with the horri ble black cloud which is suspended over our heads, and ready to hurst upon us, our own safety and all that is dear to us, and the welfare of unborn millions, has dictated tlfis movement to prevent the Court from being opened or doing any business. Wc have taken all the conse quences under consideration, we have weighed them all, and have formed this resolution, which we shall not rescind.” The Chief Justice calmly hut firmly repli ed : “This is a legal and a constitutional Court ; it has suffered no mutations ; the juries have been drawn from the boxes as the law directs, and why would you inter rupt our proceedings ? Why make your leap before you get to the hedge ?” Dr. Freeman replied : “All this has been con sidered ; we do not appear here out of any disrespect to this honorable Court, nor do we apprehend that, if you proceed to business, you will do any thing that we could censure. But, sir, from all the decisions of this Court of more than forty shillings amount an appeal lies; an ap peal to what ? To a Court holding their office during the King’s pleasure; a Court over whom we have no control or influence, a Court who is paid out of the revenue which is extorted from us by the illegal and unconstitutional edict iff for eign despotism, and where the jury will be appointed by the Sheriff For this reason we have adopted this method to stop the avenue through which business can pass to that tribunal; knowing that if they have no business, they can do us no harm.” The Chief Justice then said: “As it is my duty, I now, in his majesty's name, or der you immediately to disperse, and give the Court an opportunity to perform the business of the county.” Dr. Freeman replied : “We thank your honor for hav ing done your duty,; we will continue to perform ours.” The Court then turned round and repaired to the house where they had put up. A committee was then chosen of which Dr. Freeman, was chairman, to wait on the Chief Justice, in the name of the as jsemblage, and request him to attend at t Boston at the time the Governor had or dered anew Genera] Court to meet, and demand his seat at the Council Board, he being one that was chosen that year according to the prov ision of the charter. The Chief Justice answered in writing, that he thanked them for putting him in mind of his duty ; that he had thought on the subject, and had concluded to at- ERuarswxcK, Georgia, Thursday morning, juiy xs, is 37. tend and demand his seat, though he did not expect it would have any effect. How ever the Governor, for some reason, issued another proclamation forbidding the mem bers of the General Court to meet. 1 thought then, and 1 still continue of the same mind, that I never had seen, or have I since, seen, any man whatever, who felt quite so cleverly and happy as Dr. Freeman did during the whole ofthis time ; and 1 think no man was better qual ified tu preside on such an occasion. Dr. Freeman then resigned his post, and at his recommendation, Major Otis, the Clerk of the Court, and son of the Chief Justice, was chosen his successor. The rest of the day was spent in receiving the recantations of the disaffected inhabitants, and in raising their liberty pole; and the next day they returned to Sandwich. It is a duty lowe to the inhabitants of the town of Barnstable to say, that such was their urbanity, that few if any of them, would receive any compensation for the board, &.c. of those visiters. On their return to Sandwich, some out rages had been committed by the disaf fected ; the liberty pole had been cut down, <JLc. This caused some little troub le ; the perpetrators were arrested and brought coram nobis ; and after having re ceived a severe reprimand, and paying the just value of the liberty pole, signing re cantations, and renouncing “The Pope—the Turk, “The King—the Devil, and all their work,” they were liberated. This was the first act ol the kind ; and 1 believe there was never a Court of Common I’leas holden under the King’s authority after this in the province except in the tow nos Boston, where Governor Gage with his troops had it in his power to control all things of this nature. This retrospection of those olden times resusciates all the feelings, sensations, and animations of 1774 ; feelings, sen sations, and animations which none can feel to the same degree, who did not live at the time, and participate in the fears and hopes, and in the toils and the dan gers of those times. The contemplation of those events gives me satisfaction un known to the miser in counting his hoards of cash—the agriculturist when his corn, and his wine, and his oil, increaseth, or the merchant when his ship returns laden with the riches of the East. Population, like the human body, is in a constant state of mutation ; we never see them twice in all respects the same. There may he some who took a part in this, adventure, besides myself, who still live, hut I know of none; there certain ly is not one in the town of Rochester ; and it is probable that a large majority of the population of the county of Barnsta ble never so much as heard of the trans action. Strange as it may appear 1 am acquainted with gentlemen who talk very inteligibly of the history of England, and even of Greece and Rome, who know hut little of the history of their own country. Rochester, March 11, 177G.* In seventeen hundred and seventy six, On Ma rch the 11 th the time was prefix’t— Our forces marched over to Dorchester's neck, And made fortifications aga nst an atuick. Early the next morning when Howe did espy. The works they hud thrown up were so copious and high, Said he all my men in six months with their might Could not make such forts as they’ve made in one night. LORD ERSKINE, FROM THE NOTE-HOOK OF A RETIRED BARRISTER. In attempting to give any sketch of Lord Erskine’s character, I am doubtful of my own impartiality. I was attached to him in his lifetime by numberless acts of personal kindness and attention, the! recollection of which memory faithfully j recalls, and which I feel may influence J my judgment, while I wish to be but just. That this original distinction was a military life was well understood: and that he was a lieutenant in the Royals, and doing duty with his regiment, at Gib-' raltar, when he formed the resolution of; coming to the Bar, a military life affording j too narrow a sphere for talents such as his to display themselves. Attention to its! duties was wholly incompatabic with the | study which was necessary to qualify him for that profession which he was about to adopt—the attainment of legal knowledge. To this his pursuits presented every thing unfavorable, and he was always consider ed in Westminster Hall as wanting in ex tent of legal information. No man of his day, and I may add, no one whom I have since heard, could hold competition with Erskine as an eloquent speaker at the Bar, with the exception of Garrow, now Mr. Baron Garrow. He was a formidable rival to Erskine; but their powers bore no resemblance to each other, either in the exercise or extent of then*. Garrow’s address to the Jury was more forcible, but fell far short of Er-i skine’s in persuasion and effect. The comments ofGarrow on persons or trans-; actions were keen to exeess; often suchi ‘HEAR ME FOR MY CAUSE i as to become offensive to the Jury, who | put themselves into the situation of the , witness, who appeared to them to he treat ed with unwarranted severity. This is a very wrong conclusion, to which the Jurv too often come : ignorant of the real char acter ot the witness, and uninformed of facts communicated to the Counsel, they judge only from an imperfect view of the case, and bestow censure on him where praise is due. Both of these very superior men, how ever, attained their object, by dill'erent means. The object of cross examination is to elicit from an unwilling or adverse witness, tacts which he wishes to withhold, and is anxious to conceal. In this respect the difference was striking. Erskine’s mode of examination gave no alarm to the witness; he did not deal in menaces, and fulminate threats of the pillory for perju ry —a course which Garrow too frequent ly adopted. He obtained a confession from him by management, which his able antagonist wrung from him by breaking him upon the wheel. In the subtlety of putting his questions to a witness under examination, and acuteness in turning the answer to his ad vantage, Erskine was decidedly excelled by Garrow. The latter was, in that re spect, without a competitor. 1 have often heard him say to a witness, “You know a particular fact, and wish to conceal it: I put you on your guard; I'll get it out of you.” He never failed to do so. He be gan by asking the witness some question, which seemed to have no immediate con nexion with the fact he wanted to get at; and to which for that reason, the witness gave an unpremeditated reply. With an astonishing acuteness of mind, by acourse of questions, the bearing of which on the general one the witness did not see at the moment, he formed from his answers a connected chain of facts, by which he at last arrived at the truth. This singular faculty was conceded to him by the whole of the bar; and even Sir Vicary Gibbs, when Attorney General, who made no lowly estimate of his own talents, owned its superiority. To form a correct judgment of the ef fect of Erskine’s eloquence, the best test by which it can be tried is the extent to which it carried the amount of damages in the different actions in which he ob tained verdicts. Tile inquiry as to this may be confined to cases only in which the complaining party had recourse to that mode of obtaining redress for personal in juries. Among these, the most afflicting is that of adultery. Its injuries are not confined to the affliction of individual sor row ; it brings down disgrace on the in nocent offspring of a guilty mother, and rends asunder the dearest bonds which hold society together. In his addresses to the jury in this action, Erskine possess ed the resistless power of enlisting their passionsliy appeals to their hearts; the receipt of the highest damages could bring no consolation to the plaintiff, but the paying of them might bring down punish ment and ruin on the defendant. It was on this subject all the energies of his na ture were bent, and the exercise of all his talents was bestowed. The verdicts which by such means lie succeeded in gaining, exceeded in amount any which had e\er gone before, or of which conception could have been formed or expectation ventured] to anticipate. In the case of Parslow r. Sykes, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff with <£‘lo,ooo damages. Much of his success in this respect he owed to the effect produced by the happy quotations with which his speeches abound. lie introduced into them pas sages from the best and most populous an- j thors,which he applied with exquisite taste ! and singular felicity. These he gave to the Jury in language the most affecting, and in tones of the strongest feeling and deepest sensibility. He communicated his own feelings to his hearers by the ini passioned manner of delivery, and produc ed a kind of electrifying effect over the whole Court. In one of these cases the effect of his address to the jury is still fresh to my memory. Describing the state of mind of j a husband, who, fondly attached to his wife, who, suspects her fidelity, he paint ed the different workings of his soul in the most affecting colors, and in the most pa thetic language—the agonies of suspense —tiie feverish irritation of unrelieved doubt —the struggles of the wounded spir it, as to a fact which, while the heart wished to disbelieve, his inind told him was hut too true. The jury followed him with fixed attention, and the audience with deep solicitude for the verdict. He closed the statement with Othello’s words from Shakspeare which so well applied to his case: “But, oh ! what damned minutes tell he o’er Who doubts, believes, suspects, but strongly loves!’ This was pronounced with a considerable degree of pathos. ‘But,’ continued the eloquent advocate, ‘when suspicion is real ized into certainty, and his dishonor is placed beyond the reach of doubt, despair j assumes her dominion over th« afflicted: j man; and well might he exclaim, from ] the same page— “ Had it pleased Heaven I To try me with aiiliction—had lie raised | All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head, j Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips— I Given to captivity me and my hopes— | I should have found in some place of my soul | A drop of patience. But now ” ’ He stopped, and the effect was visible in ] every eye in the court. The language of Shakspeare, ever true to nature, never ] fails to make its way to the heart. No one knew how to give it that direction with more truth and effect than Erskine. Chronology of Cotton. —Just at the present time, when all the politicans are quarrelling about the currency and the derangement of bussiness, we have com piled an impartial view of the introduc jtion to the use, and mutations of price in the history of cotton, which, although it is the staple commodity of this country, is an article that, above all others, shows the most sensitive actios on the slightest approach of a change, no matter what causes the commotion. 1730. Mr. Wyatt spins the first cotton yarn in England, by machinery. 103.5. The Dutch first export cotton from Surinam. 1742. First mill for spinning cotton er ected at Brimingham, moved by mules or ! horses, hut not successful in its opera ; t ioilS. 174!). The fly-shuttle generally used in England. 175(5. Cotton velvets and quiltings made in England for the first time. 17(51. Arkwright obtained the first pa tent lor the spinning frame, which he fur ther improved. 1708. The stocking frame applied by Hammond to the making of lace. 171:3. A bill passed to prevent the ex port of machinery used in cotton facto j rics. 1779. Mule spinning invented by Ilar grave. 17*2. First import of raw cotton from Brazil into England. 1782. W att took out his patent for the steam engine. 1783. A bounty granted in England on the export of certain cotton goods. 1785. Power looms invented by Dr. Cartwright. Steam engines used in cot ton factories. 1780. Bleaching first performed by the agency of the oxyinuriatic acid. 1787. First machinery to spin cotton put in operation in France. 17i5'J. Sea Island cotton first planted in the United States, and Upland cotton first cultivated for use and export about this time. 1790. Salter, an Englishman, builds the first American cotton factory, at Puw j tucket, It. I. 1793. Eli Whitney, an American, in vents the cotton gin, which he patents. 1798. First mill and machinery for cotton erected in Switzerland. 1189. Spinning by machinery intro duced into Saxony this year. 1803. First cotton factory built in New Hampshire. 1805. Power looms successively and widely introduced into England. I*o7. The revolution in Spanish A merica begins to furnish new markets for cotton manufactures. 1810. Digest of cotton manufactures in the U. States by Mr. Gallatin, and an other by Tench Cox, Esq. of Philudel phia. 1811. Machinery to make bobbin lace patented by John Burn. 1813. The India trade more free, and more British manufactures sent there. I*ls, The power loom introduced into the U. States first at Waltham. 1818. Average price of cotton 34 cents —higher tiian since 1810. New method of preparing sewing cotton, by Mr. Ilolt. 181*. Extraordinary prices for Alaba ma cotton lands. I*3o. Steam power first applied with success extensively to lace manufactures. 1833 First cotton factory in Lowell erected. 1833. First export of raw cotton from Egypt into Great Britain. 1835. In New Orleans, cotton at from 23 to 35 cents per pound. l*3ti. Self acting mule spinner patent ed in England by Roberts. 1837. American cotton manufactures first exported to any considerable extent. 1839. Highest duty in the United States on foreign cotton manufactures. 1830. About this time Mr. Dyer in troduced a machine from the United States into England for the purpose of making cards. 1832. Duty on cotton goods imported into the United States reduced ; and in England it is forbid to employ minors in cotton mills for more than nine hours on a Saturday; in consequence, they work at something else. 1834. Cotton at 17 cents. 1835. Extensive purchases made of cot ton lands bv speculators and others. 1830. The season began at 16 cents, and the year ended at 20 cents. J. W. FROST, F.DITOR. NUMBER 6. Life of an Editor. The following j paragraph is taken from an English pa i per, and presents a just view of the diffi j cullies which attend the life of an editor jof a newspaper—who is obliged to cater ; fur an almost infinite variety of appetites, j It reminds one of the hapless flying fish 1 in the tropics, who is eagerly chased while in his native dement by voracious boni tas and dolphins, and when he makes use ol his wings to escape from these perse vering enemies, and rises into the air, a host of the feathered tribe are waiting with impatience to pounce upon and devour him. “An editor cannot step without treading on somebody’s toes. If he expresses his opinion fearlessly and frankly, he is aro gant and presumptuous ; ifhe merely states facts without comment, he dares not avow his sentiments. If he conscientiously re fu-es to advocate the claims of an indi vidual to office, he is accused of personal hostility. A Jackanapes who measures off words into verse as a clerk does tape by the yard, hands him a parcel of stuff that jingles like a handful of rusty nails and a gimblet, and if the editor is not fool enough to print the nonsense—'Stop my paper, I won’t patronise a man that is no better judge of poetry !’ One murmurs because his paper is too literary, another because it is not literary enough, one would have the type so small that a micro scope would be indispensable in every family ; another threatens to discontinue his paper unless the lettters are half an inch long. In fact, every subscriber has a plan of his own for conducting a jour nal, and the labor of Sisyphus was recrea tion when compared with that of an edi tor who undertakes to please all.” Anecdote of General Putnam.— During the French war, when the British Commander,General Amherst, was march ing across the country to Canada, the ar my coming to one of the lakes, which they were obliged to pass, found the French had an armed vessel of twelve guns upon it. The General was in great trouble; his boats were no match for her, and if his men were embarked in them, that single ship might sink the whole of them. While he was pondering on the course to be pursued, Putman came up to him and saiu , “General that ship must be taken." “Aye” says Amherst, “I would give the world were she taken.” “I’ll take hex.; give me a beetle, (a large wood en maul) and wedges of my own choice.” General Amherst could not understand Putnam’s method of taking armed ships with a beetle and wedges but thought proper to grant him what he required.— At night Putnam put his men and his beetle and wedges on board of a boat; then passing silently under the stern of the vessel, in a moment drove his wedges in the little cavity between the rudder and stern, and made his escape. In the morn ing, the ship being found adrift in the mid dle of the lake, with her sails fluttering, entirely unmanageable, was presently blown ashore and easily taken. A Scotchman’s Idf.as of Glory.— From the Edinburgh Review, the follow ing amusing paragraph is taken. We can inform the Americans what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory. Taxes upon every ar ticle that enters into the mouth or covers the hack, or is placed under foot; taxes upon every thing that is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell or taste; taxes upon warmth, light, or locomotion; taxes upon every thing on the earth and water under the earth; on every thing that comes from abroad, or is grown at home; taxes on the raw material; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the in dustry of man; taxes on the course which pampers man’s appetite, and the drug which restores him to health, on the er mine which decorates the judge, and the rope that hangs the criminal; on the poor man’s salt, and the rich man’s spice; on tlic brass nails of the cofiin, and the rib ands of the bride; at bed or board, couch ant or levant, we must pay. The school boy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; the dying English man pouring his medicine on which he had paid seven per cent, into a spoon that he has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty two per cent, makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds for a privilege of putting him to death. His whole proper ty is then immediately taxed from two to nineteen per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him is the chancel ; he is handed down to poster ity on taxed marble, and be is then gath ered to his fathers—to be taxed no msfc. Dress. —lt reminds me of what Dr. * Johnson once said to an acquaintance of mine of a lady, who was celebrated by dressing well, "the best evidence X can give you of her perfection in this re» spect is that we can never remember whet she has os.”