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To Hi < Excellency , tht Up County Man. SIR, A S you have addrefled a lengthy piece to Mr> Hobby, in the Republican Trumpet of the 7th, in which you pro mi (e to “ protray Jome prominant features of his chat after, and as you pledge yourleU that truth (hall be your guide, it will be but jll ft ice to you, to examine with fame xnimitenefs how far you hive complied with your solemn engagement. You begin by Rating that when the bill to which you allude (the Yazoo bill) was pending before the legtflature, in every cir cle in which Mr. Hobby “ revolved he gave his opinion freely and candidly on the merits and demerits of the bill; and publicly acknowledged it to be founded in fraud and the molt bare faced corrup tion,” and that his intimacy with a cer tain chararter, gave him an opportunity of being acquainted with the sinister mo tives of that venal legillatnre. Now fir to fliew your accuracy be it known to you, tha. at the time of the Yazoo laic, Mr. Hobby lived in Peterlburg, early in No vember of that year he was attacked with a violent nervous fever which confined him, till late in December, and that he was not once in Aogufta during that whole frlfion of the legislature, until the day after the firft bill had been negatived by the go vernor ; nor was he In a situation to know any of the proceedings, on the fubjert, or in a capacity to converse, or to express any opinion as to any fraud therein. Therefore your solemn pledge is imme diately folk wed by two untruths, and those by a third, refperting his throwing his hat into the air. As to what you fay of his hand being tickled with British gold, this is almort too absurd and ridiculous even for you to (late—you knew it was not (rue when you wrote it. You then Rate that Mr. Hobby, ex prefled a wifli that the annulling law might p:;fs, and observed tnat had he a “ legill 1- tive voice it Ihould receive his support,” you probably recollert, that you once be fore Rated the fubflance of these allega tions, and intimated that you Riould here after (how the truth thereof to the world— you now repeat the fame, and this is the kind ot (hewing to the world which I sup pose you confider equal to proof. If your alfcrtions fir, were admitted as proofs, it would be as easy for you to prove anv thing, as to aflert any thing. But you now pretend you were informed of this, who then was vour informant, perhaps he was no more deserving of credit thanyour fe f, and it to, your Riewing will gain no belief. Now lir I deny pofiuvely that ever Mr. Hobby exprellcd a wifli that the nullifying art or any tiling like it might pass, or evtr made any observation rela tive to giving such an art his support : and my denial is at leaß equal to your af lertion, especially as your wilfull miflate nients have rendered your veracity very much lufperteJ. If then any person gave you the information you pretend, if your informant be any other than vourfeif, or deserving of more credit, you can let us kn w who he is, the time when, and [dace where, the opinions you mention were exprefTed—but take care to fix the time so as not to be again deterted—do not Rate it to have been in Augufln, when Mr. Hobby vvas in Peterlburg, nor to have been in a public company when he was confined to his bed. After the sale of iveflern territory, the oppofers of that contrart, talked much a bout undoing the sale, but no man seemed to be able to conceive a mode by which that was to be done, and the convention which met in that year were pretty well convinced the thing was beyond their power. It was hardly polfible for Mr Hobby to talk about wifliing an art to pass of which he had no conception, an art refeinding a contrart executed*; and very few perlons I believe had anv idea how such a thing could be attempted, till you brought up the unprecedented bill ready penned from Savannah ; when the out lines of this bill were made public, few men imagined so glaring an outrage upon common honefly, so monßrous a breach of public faith, and so evident a violation of the federal constitution would meet with countenance —the event however was more d l\;raceful than had been con templated. The only conversation on the fubjert 1 ever beard Mr. Hobby mention, was a few words which paired between him and Mr. Tallialerro, (the president ot the senate) when on his way to the refind ing legislature—in conversation one morn ing Mr. Hobby mentioned, that much was the talk about something the legisla ture were to do with the Yazoo sale, but, hr could not have any idea what it was— Mr. Talliaferro observed, that he was al ways opposed to the sale, but it having been made, he thought we “ ought to be extremely cautious how we meddled with 1 it.” As to your observations f'3 p-cting the Poft-Office, Mr. Hobby is c«;a nly Post- Mafler at Augufla, and tht.- is the firfi truth your address contains. When the former Pofl-Mafler was about to resign, it was absolutely neceflary to have a l'uccef for, but Mr. Hobby never knee/ of his be ing thought of for that purpose, nor did he hear a word of the intended v until after it was made ; his ther receiving the appointment, was in all probability owing to his name having been mention ed to the Pofl-Mafler General, b; tli- gen tleman you allude to, whose up* nefs, integrity and responsibility, wiie w-,< 1 known : no doubt had the intended resig nation been made public, other nasK -1 persons equally well qualified fice would have been sent on, out not probable any recommendation! m ours would have been attended to, unlcfs ther proof besides your own was adductof the morality and honefly of the perfwt. re commended. And this appointmen you pretend has been considered bv hi i dz o patrons as the price of his labour w, tht ir cause : and yet but one Angle perfi \nn cerned in the Yazoo purchase kite* ,y thing about the appointment, and tM one never knew , that Mr. Hobby haiPe-tr written a word on the fubjert—*th* book which you pretend had an influence s the appointment, unfortunately for you*, was not written, much less publiflied, till ruany months after the appointment was ' ule. The emoluments of ihe office, in ,uth amount fully to what you ftatethema.,. . nd are the rewards attached to the imp* ant Cervices the office requires. You in a former paper that Mr. Hobby hs a hireling writer, &c. and this dress you announce as intended to tr i ply with the engage nents of the oth**.nd therefore to eflabhfh its chirges. ■ow why fir rest upon mere aflertion ? Jfou nave had time to collert your proofs and are bound to do so, or acknowledge \our felf unworthy of credit. I aflert positive ly, and defy you, and the world to prove the contrary, that Mr. Hobby never diet receive dirertly or indirertly any comoen fation of any kind for any publicaticn ot his whatever, nor was ever employed by any men or party of men to write for tn m; nor fir do I believe he ever acknowledged himfelf the author of anv writing to which his name did not appear, and therefore could neither be imployed or rewarded. If he has ever written, it has been the vo luntary result of his own rtflertons, ant. a conlcientious belief in the propriety ofjfiis remarks, the public will always make ufc'i ’ owncoojerturesas tothe authors of an .!v --mous publications, but without the authors confent, or improper coadurt in the printer, it will not be polfible to know certainly whether their conjertures be true or falfe. You tell 11s you know B. to be an inter ested writer, and you certainly do not know any such tning, you know nothing about him, nor will you probably ever know, till he clrnfes to inform you ; he never was in any way interefled in that dear de lightful foundation of your popularity the Yazoo. You fav too that B. has laboured to impress an opinion that Mr. Hobby “ while the iniquitous bill was before the hnufe, from a perftrt knowledge of the bribery and corruption that was flumefuJ ly prarticed to accomplifli the great ob jert, opposed it.” Now fir I never fakl any such thing, and are you not alhamwl to originate such bare faced falfities ? Mr. Hobby as before stated not being in Al - during the whole progress of the Wl you speak of could not poflibly know in y thing of measures taken to obtain it. You tell us you hear 4 ‘ much from him in favour of Regal government and m contempt of equal libarty,” he in all his life never wrote a word in favour of either Regal government, or fate des potism—He is an American born, and was always an American at heart —unalterably attached to the genuine principles of the American Revolution, he never in thought, word, or deed,departed from what he con ceived the true interests of his country, and the liberties of his fellow men. He never indeed difeovered those delightful charms in the French revolution, which had so facinating an influence over your mind as to bewilder your understanding He admired and approved that revolution in its commencement, and when celebra ting the anniverlarv of our glorious*lnde dence, he contributed his aid, to exhibit emblems of the French and American Union, and the flags of the two nations were difplaved together. Even fir if you recollert, the legislature of our state once turned out in a bodv, to celebrate French fuccetles—and dearly have we since pail for this kind of folly. The enthusiasm of the people being fufficiently heat-d an at* tempt was made, and here encouraged , to lubjert us to French dominion. Then the government of our country difeovered the dark designs of pretended friends, and opposed their villanous intrigues, and then Mr. Hobby discovered that his attachment to his own country and govtrnmenf, was superior to any nonsensical prepofidEon in favour of a foreign nation. When a French unacknowledged, unprincipled agent, was commillioning men in our country, and hurrying us into a destruc tive war against the will of our govern ment, he did not basely aflerr, that were a French army to land here, he would join them, (join them against the citizens of the U nited Stares,) do you know lir any one tnat made this declaration * Afii ypwr md ror, to furnifh you with You fay t*'p Delpo*ic Monarchy of France i - /erturned t)y the grand principle of the will of the people—hJs true, and without their will or conlent, a more despotic monarchy is about to be eftabliftied, but as we have no concern witii that govern ment, let them do as they please, I only mention this, becaule you have the folly to aftimilate that revolution, with the A merican. In replying to your address, I have ne ceflarily been lengthy becanfe I w lud to evince clearly to yourfelf that it ought no more to be believed, than your declaration in court, that you did not reside in Jt tfer ion county.* Your publication eviden ces your disposition to calumnia e, with out capacity to attach probability to your statement. Ten direct and pofibve un truths are contained in your address, which however they may impress us, as to your industry, afford no very favourable ■pinion of your morJ rectitude. You may indeed fay that ten fadhoodi in two columns of the Republican Trumpet, leave the fob Jrroport o : o 'mU', yr it is intended writings in that llanderous paper shall contain, and in tnis we {hall not differ in opinion. But fir do you sup pose this mod* of conducting a paper will afford you permanent gratification, do you imagin you will always have it in your power to resist the flings of a guiltv con icience, and that you will never be com pelled to take a review of thedifmal rnan lionsof acorrupted heart: Reftallured your endeavors to traduce individual reputa tions will be in vain, your labour will but expose your own depravity; and I fin cereiy hope that when the hours of serious reflection arrive, and arrive they certainly will, and when you are brooding over the ineffectual efforts of your malice, and when the turpitude of your conduCt is presented to your view in all its enormity, you may not be driven to the intoxicating draught, to lull the agony of disappoint ment, and lelfen the poignancy of your feelings by the deftruCtion of your real'on. B. * To explain this, be it remembered, that Tho mas Jones of M‘Bean, having a demand against Go vernor Jacklon of about £. 15, f'ued him theiefor in the Interior Court of J.riuiiicm county in Janu r> 1800.—The Governor inifezd oi fairly meeting the demand of a citiz n, plead that he was not a refideni of Jefferlon county, altho’ he and his family had re tided there i or 3 yeais, and swore to the truth of his pie a. The julfices of ihe court could not dilbelieve the evidence oi their own senses, and their positive knowledge, and like upri.ht men overruled the plea and decided against his Exce lency : Ju:ge Mitchell granted a writ of certioraii, and brought the pmceedings up he.ore him last April term, reversed the judgment of the Infer or court and dil'miff-d the t'uit, (that h he decided the Governor did hot dive in jeffer-, Ion.) This is a proceeding of the friend of equal a 1 cuts —and the citizens of Jett' rlon and 01 the Hate, have here a Governois declaration, and a ju dicial decision comranidfing the plain evidence of their own lenses—let the Republican Trump- tors •vpublith this and tell us which we aie to believe. TO BE RENTED, FORONE YEAR TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, At the Market-Houjt in Augufia , on Saturday the 25 th in ft ant, at 8 o'clock in ihe forenoon ; THAT COMMODIOUS DWELLING-HOUSE, BagSaSaS With convenient out Houses and Lot, in Springfield, belonging to the estate of George Heneffey, deceased. Ptiffeflion will be given the firft of Novem ber next. —A L S O, — At fame time and place, the Store-House, Gin-House, Kitchen, Scales, Weights, Cs ’c. with the Lot next adjoining thereto, for one year.—Possession will be given the 27th inst. the Estate of Michael Fee, deceased. A L S O,— At the fame time wdl he fold for Qajh , Sundry Household Furniture, Belonging to fame Estate. GEORGE FEE, Ex'r. £3* Adm'r. Oftoher 22. {& Wanted at this Office, an Apprentice to the PRINTING BUSI NESS—An attive Lad, between 14 and 15 years of age. SALEM, September 29. A letter from an intelligent gentleman of this town, now in London, dated Au gust 9th, contains the following Para graph ; “This day an American gentle man arrived from Paris, and informed me that the negociation between our envoys and the French government had been bro- 1 Ken off : that captain M'Neil had left Pa- ' ris to prepare his (hip for their reception ; and that the firft confu!, finding the en voys so determined, by fame ce.-.ief u>ns, bad p.cv«.'kd on them to i&ezu the nrgoci 2- /ions, ami that the business a&ually recom menced.” By captain Edicott, who arrived yefter dav, in 34 days from Cadi?, we learn, that letters had hecn ;vceivcu from rans, which announced the failure of the Ame rican envoys in the obje<ft of their million ; that they were to take their departure u the Portsmouth, in about a fortnight, ac companied by a commilfioner from th9| French government: That in consequence of this event, the trills of the armed .cap tured American vessels were suspended, and it was onje&ored that they would not be tried until the result of the French commissioner’s embafly was known. The expedition against Ponugal was in great forwardness. A detachment confin ing of three regiments, marched from Ca diz, to join the invading army, a few days before captain Edicott failed. Cadiz is Severely afflifted with the yel low fever ; from 90 to too persons die dai ly ; more than a third cf the inhabitants have fled from the city. The fi knefs howevc ■ did not extend to the dicing in the ecu'.*'.- NEW-YORK, O&ober 6. Latest Foreign News. From Glasgow papers to the 30 th August , re ceived at the office of the Mercantile Adver tiser, by the brig Brandywine Miller , in 3 1 days from Greenock. LONDON, August 25- The court of Peterlburg, letters from Hamburg fay, is very much diffatisfied with the conduit of the French in the Dutchy of Wirtemburg, and attaches more importance to it than even to the possession of Malta :—while Pruftia is a larmed at the conquests of the French in Germany, and riilpleafed at their treat ment of the elector of Bavaria. There fore one or two things mult happen, either Buonaparte must make a moderate peace, or if his ambition induce him to contiua the war, it will be more dreadful than ever next spring. The French minister Bourgoning set out from Hamburg to Copenhagen on the 17th, in order to be present during lord Whitworth’s negociation. An article from Copenhagen, dated Au gust 12, fays, “ Lord Whitworth is arriv ed from Elfineur. “ Before his arrival our government Pent off dil'patches to Peterlburg by a courier, who proceeded in the greatest haste through Sweden, and duplicates of them were also sent off by a fwift-failing schoon er. “ Orders were given on the the gth, to get ready for sea the following fix {hips of the line : The Neptune, Waldermar, Odin, Ditmarfchen, Eyhuyen, and Looifa Augusta.” Count Bernftorff, the Danifli secretary of state, had a long conference with the Britilh and Ruffian charge d’affairs on the morning of the 9th, and immediately after a report prevailed, thatour agent, M. Mur ray, was about to return to Britain. Cer tain it is, that an order was issued to sus pend all intercourse with Great-Britain, and the feverai outward bound vessels were directed to wait farther inftru&ions. " The Portuguese, government have, we understand, imposed a duty on wines the produce of that kingdom, for the purpofc of payingtheintcreft of the paper currency of the state, and for gradually liquidating this debt, which at present greatly embar rafl’es the mercantile operations of the country. The amount of the duty is not mentioned. BERLIN, August 7. The report for some time part in circu lation, that Rulfia and Prulfia would have recourse to an armed mediation, for the purpose of re-eftablifliing tranquility is de stitute of foundation. Exertions are cer tainly made by our court in conjunction with that of Peterlburg, to induce the bil ligerent powers to conclude a peace that will restore, as far as polfibie, the balance of Europe; but those exertions do not ex ceed the medium of negociation. FRANKFORT, August 13. All the French troops that were here, both infantry and cavalry, marched out vefterday and proceeded to the Upper Mein. They were immediately replaced