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From the Charleften Courier.
IF accusation were a proof of guilt, no
nation in the world would have such
caule to complain of misfortune in the
fele&ion of Judges as America. The
views of a faction hostile to the constitu
tion being impeded by the strong ram
parts o t the laws, it seeks to raite itfelf
above them upon the ruins of the Judges,
and to obtain that which the deep printed
letter of the law and the stubborn persons
who firmly and honeftiy adhere to it deny,
from the accomodating kindly temper of
some more plaltic expounders. A Bri
tiffi tar being once brought to give evi
dence againll a (muggier did every thing
he could to fhift and evade the truth.
44 Hah?-my friend, (said the barrister who
was examining him) Do you mean to
break your oath r”—“ No, d—n my eyes
if I do (replied the pious Jack) but I’d
fain give it the go-by if 1 could ; hut blast
your precious eyes, every time I put up
the helm, you run athwart my haufe, and
be d—d to you.” Like that Britiffi iaitor,
the faction finding they cannot deft.oy
the laws, endeavour to give them the go-by.
To this end, the cruiiy old Dons of Judg
es, who yet retain those rugged princi
ples of virtue and integrity which recom
mended them to office, are to be whifiied
off, and for this purpose are affvlled, as
many virtuous charaAers, private as well
as public have been for some years pad,
with all that the virulence and malignant
venom of party rancour—with all that
lhamelels vice and clumsy cunning could
generate in corrupt hearts, to call a foul
(hade over virtue, and to immolate, at the
shrine of slanderous fafthood, men whom
law, jufiice, and honour ought to protest
—men who on examination have proved
highly entitled to confidence.
Were things now as they have been—
were the po(hire of the public mind so
fitted as it was lately to repel falfe accu
sations, the accused Judges would have
nothing Jo apprehend.—But now when
the people seem generally to have been
cajoled and tricked out of that caution
and jealouly which it was once their dis
position and their boast to observe to
wards their rulers, a blow aimed by the
hand of power at the greatelt integrity
and worth, may be considered as death,
and an impeachment the fame as a death
warrant to a man in office—and a foul
blot upon his reputation. Candour and
impartiality we more than fear will not
be heard amiJft the clamours of Hate de
tractors, so long as the hydrophobia—
the phrenzy of political fanaticifm, which
prevails at the present moment, shill pros
trate or rather proftitu'e the people in de
votion before the Molock of unmixed
democracy—before the faction which
now lords it over America. Little chance
has the accused to tfcape from prede
termined tribunals, who are at once (as
partisans) acculers and judges. Our rea
ders will remember the case of Judge
Addison, who was condemned without
being permitted to give the principal evi
dence he had to offer in his defence. Let
them to the knowledge which they alrea
dy have of that affair, add the following
letter from the illustrious Washington to
that gentleman. Let them lay it to their
hearts, and then let them bid mercy and
charity to (Hence their fugyeftions if they
ffiould To far forget their office as to plead
in defence of such guilty ffiamelefs per
verfi -n of the cheated confidence of the
country to the ruin of its laws and u>n
ftitution, and to the overthrow of its bed
friends.
Mount Vernon, March 4, 1799.
SIR,
Your favor of the 31st [anuarv, en
closing your Charge to the Grand Jury of
the county court of the fifth circuit of the
state of Pennlyivania, at the last Decem
ber sessions, has been duly received, and
for the enclosure I thank } - u.
I wifli, sincerely, that your good exam
ple in endeavouring to bring the people
of these United States more acquainted
with the laws and principles of their gov
ernment, was followed. They only re
quire a proper underfianding of these to
judge rightly on all great national ques
tions—but unfortunately , infinitely more pains
is taken to blind them, by one descrip
tion of men, than there is to open their eyes
by the other, which. in my opinion , is the
SOURCE OF MOST OF THE EVILS WE
LABOUR UNDER.
With very great esteem,
I am fir, your most ob’t ferv’t,
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Alexander Addison, Esq.
WASHINGTON, February 13.
We are correftly informed, that in the
beginning of November last the Supreme
Council of Health at Madrid determined
not to prevent the free pratic of vessels
from other ports of (he United States than
New-York, which ffiould bring cltan
bills of health, and which ffiould have
had no comrnunic.vion with those of that
port ; and that vessels from the port of
New-York, carrying certificates from the
Spanllh consul of it; health, and that the
epidemic has ceased, (hall also be admit
ted ; provided that no lufpicious circum
stance refpe&ing the health of the crew
(hall have taken place.
CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY.
This colletft ion already emoraces near
fifteen hundred volumes of the most rare
and valuable works in different languages.
We observe with pleasure that authors
and editors of books, maps and charts,
begin to find that, by placing a copv of
their works on the (helves of this iuftitu
tion, they do more to diffufe a knowledge
of them than is generally accompliftied
by catalogues and advertisements.
CHARLESTON, February 23.
By the brig Neptune, Capt. Youkg,
from Jamaica, we are informed of the
death of Judge Holland, of the Vice-
Adm’ralty Court of thatlfland; and of
the appointment of Judge Hincliffe,
to fill the vacancy occationed by the death
of the former. .
A Proclamation of Dessalines, the
Brigand Commander of St. Domingo,
issued about the fi.ft of January, had been
received at Kingston — in which he has
declared that Island Independent, under
the aboriginal name of D'liayte.
HER A L i).
A U G U S I A,
WEDNESDAY, March 7, 1804.
On Thursday last the Annual Races
commenced at this place. The firft day’s
purse, three mile heats, was won by Mr.
Bynum’s Dungannon ; the second day’s,
two mile heats, by Mr. Bynum’s Roe
buck; and the third day’s, one mile heat,
by Mr. Hunter’s Harbinger.
Geo. Adv.
THE amicable adjustment of the com
mercial affair in negotiation between
England and this country, will give plea
lure to every one but those whose hatred
to the former is greater than their love to
the latter : of which it is probable there is
a considerable number in the United
States. Those consist of four detcriptions
of persons, whose feelings are founded on
four different motives. First, those in
whose bosoms there remain unextinguiffi
ed the animofiries of the revolutionary
war ; whose resentments are natural
enough, if not carried beyond the bounds
of chriftian morality : Secondly, ffiofe
who in the revolutionary war were warm
partisans of Great Britain, and who, being
apostates endeavour to atone to themselves
for the trifling mistake they made in not
taking the fucceLfyl fide, by a good round
tquivalent of abhorrence to the former
objed of their regards. Os this deferip
tion are multitudes, including some of the
state legislators. We hope for their own
honour, and the advantage of the country,
that they will know better which fide to take
in the IcgilLture than they did in the re
volution. If they do not, they will be in
the predicament of Sir Francis Wrong
head, in the play, who, coming from the
House of Commons, fays to Manly,
“ Troth cousin, I fear I said aye when I
ffiould have said no” : The third deferip
tion, like the firft, may be considered as in
some fort blameless, considering their pro
vocation ; we mean the unhappy Irifli
who have been driven by persecution from
their native land ; and who attribute to
England the oppressions and abominations
committed by their own aristocracy— aye,
accursed: And the fourth consists of the
whole body of fleflied Jacobins , who,
without having any attachment to Ameri
ca, or France, or any country, but as they
may be made instrumental to Jacobinifm,
hate England for (landing in the breach
made by Jacobinifm in the civilized world,
and (topping its progress And chief
among that band, and word bv far, are
those unworthy wretches who (trove to
biow up the flamepf civil combustion in
England, and to incite the people of that
country to rebellion and inffirre&ion—the
lads who added to the jacobin mobs at
Chalk Farm,andelfewhere. As an Eugiiffi
Jacobin is by far the most unnatural crea
ture, so is he in proportion by much the
mod deteftabie and malignant of all Jaco
bins. The disturbers of the tranquillity
of Great-Britain wanted the motives to
palliate their guilt which the Irifli Infur
gents, or even the French, had to juftify
their efforts. It is a fa£, that when, in
the year ninety-five or ninety-fix, the Irifli
Catholic Deputation arrived in London to
present to the Kin* a petition from that
body for relief, the Democratic, or rather
J.icobin Societies, sent them addreffi s, in
viting them to take a (hare in their delibe
rations. To which they returned.for an
swer, that they would not mix their cause,
which was a just one, with one which
they did not understand; that for their
parts, they couid difeern no grounds for
difeontent in England ; and should confider
themfclves and their countrymen as highly
blameable if they complained with as little
cause for complaint as the people of Eng
land had. England, they remarked, was
in a state of flourifliing prosperity, opu
lence, and freedom—lreland, groaning
under the feverert oppression with which
the iron hand of power, under the direc
tion of injustice, could afllilt and crush an
injured nation. .
With refpelt to the matter in negocia
tion between this country and England,
its nature, or the terms of its ultimate ad
justment, we profefs ourselves to be whol
ly ignorant ; and can therefore offer no
opinion upon the conduit of either fide in
the tranfaflion. When it comes to the
public view, we fliall offer a few words
upon it, such as we shall think it deserves.
In the mean time, it costs us nothing to
believe that there has been on both sides
candour and liberality enough to do them
honour. [Charles. Cour.
From the Jamc.
NEVER, from the firft line of the hif
tory of the world to the last we have recei
ved from Europe, has there been perpe
trated a more flagitious deed of robbery
and exaltion than that of the enthroned
cartouche of France on the towns of
Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck. It is
an alt for which any criminal court in
Europe would adjudge the fenteme of
death to an individual for perpetrating
against another. The opprclfions, frauds,
and exallions of the infernal Cortez in
Mexico , or the more infernal Pi zarro in
Peru , were not an atom more atrocious.
While we regret the late of the unhappy
people whose local situation exposes them
to such dreadful ravages—Not all the ra
vages of Jenghis Khaun, that bloody
and barbarous conqueror ; nor all the ex
tortions and exaltions of Verres, ever
equalled the unprincipled tyranny of this
mufliroom monarch, iprung up all at once
from the fmoaking dunghill of democracy.
If his injaltice were exercised over hostile
nations, there would be some pretence to
give it colour. If it were exercised upon
the people of France, it would be no more
than they deserve, and though we mud
abhor the oppressor, we could not pity the
opprefled. But the towns of Hamburgh,
Bremen, and Lubeck, have not given the
sh idow of a pretext. They were perfelt
ly neutral; and he had no more right to
take their property from them, than to
exalt a forced loan from America. May
God in his mercy avert it—but it costs us
no violent effort of the imagination to fup
pefe that being yet attempted—to fee in
the protective view of the mind’s eye a
loan requerttd—then demanded—then en
forced wi'h the bayonet—from this coun
try. Fall England, and then the purse and
property of America will follow the cafli
of the Hamburghers into the plunder-cave
of the Captain Rinaldo Bonaparte, and
bis friend ambrose Lamela Talleyrand.
Methinks we hear some worthy ipirited
Americans fay, No ! we flatter ourselves
we should even in that case be able to hold
our purses too faft for Bonaparte’s gripe.
We answer them in the fenl'e of Old
Clytus, and nearly in his words, “in
deed you do flatter yourlelves” if you
think so.
In one refpelt however these exallions
afford symptoms of a confolitory kind to
the world—they denote the probability
that the treasury of Bon aparte’s ill-got
wealth is exhausted, and this presumption
is (Lengthened by some articles of Europe
an intelligence, which state falls pretty
demonstrative of the poor state of the
French finances.
House of Representatives,
Os the United States.
F'riday February so.
The House resumed the consideration
of the unfiniftied business of yesterday.
On the resolution (above dated) a long
and interesting debate ensued on the cir
cumstances attending the Yazoo specula
tion, and the confluences likely to ensue
from ihe entire difallowance or compro
mife-of the claims of individuals for com
pensation for lands purchased under the
several alls of Georgia, and ceded to the
United States; when about fix o’clock the
question was taken by yeas and nays on
the following resolution, and carried in
the affirmative—Yeas 62, Nays 56.
Resolved , That the Secretary of State,
the Secretary of the Treasury, and the At
torney General far the time being, be au
tborifed to receive propositions of com
promise and settlement from the several
companies or persons claiming public
lands in the territory of the United States,
lying fouih of the state of Tennellee, and
weft of the state of Georgia : and finally
to adjust and fettle the fame, in such man
ner, as in their opinion will conduce to
the interests of the United States : Pro
vided, that in such lettlcment, the laid
commillioners thail not exceed the limits
preferibed by the convention with the
state of Georgia.
After motions to adjourn and postpone
the fubjeft were made and loft, and the
proposition of an amendment of Mr. J.
Randolph so to modify the resolution as
to inhibit all compensation for lands pur
chased under the a£l of Georgia of 1795
was declared not in order, the following
resolution was carried :
Resolved , That the time limited by law,
for filing claims in the office of the Secre
tary of State, ought to be extended to the
firft day of May next.
A motion was then made to refer the
two resolutions to a feleft committee to
bring in a bill, which was superseded
by an adjournment until Monday.
A London paper of November 29, fay*
—“ The commissioners appointed by aft
of parliament, under the convention of
the United States of America, have given
notice, that in eftimatirtg under the con
vention the loss sustained by claimants,
they will in no case allow compound in
terest, for the time subsequent to the pe
riod wherein lawful impediments had ex
isted; as it might reasonably be held that
such claimants would have recovered
their debts.”
Capt. Sharp, who arrived at this port
yesterday from Naples, informs us that
30,000 French troops were in the north
ern part of that kingdom at the time of
his departure ; and that the British man of
war Gibraltar was in readiness to carry
oft the English merchants and their pro
perty, in case this army should advance
further into the interior.
[ New- York paper."]
MARRIED, On Sunday Evening faft,
by George Watkins, Esquire, Mr. Mi
chael Harris of Spirit-Creek, to the
agreeable Miss Ann Maryann Tur
man, the only daughter of John Turman
of this City.
———, At St. Mary’s, on the 20th
ult. Mr. William Cook, Merchant, to
Miss Mary Johnson, both of that place.
fjfijT The Members of the Au
gusta AfTociation of Mechanic’s, are par
ticularly Requested to attend a Meeting
at the former Mechanic Hall, on Saturday
the 10th instant, at 6 o’clock in the
Evening, on business of importance.
By order of the Prejtdent.
CHAs. JOHNSON, Secretary.
& RICHMOND DRAGOONS;
ORDERED , ST hat all the Mem
bers who have signed the By Laws and re
gulations of the Company , appear in Uniform
at Mu/lernn the last Saturday in March next :
Those who do not comply with this order , will
no longer be considered as belonging to the
Company, and the fine agreed on to be im
posed on persons retiring from the Troop will
be rigorously exatled, unless a Jatisfaflory
excuse is offered. All persons wishing to join
the Troop, are requested to make known the
fame through some friend belonging to the
Troop. G. WALKER, Captain.
GEORGIA, Greene County.
WHEREAS Young Gresham, has ap
plied for letters of administration
on tfie estate and effefts of Mathew
Bilbo, deceased :—Thelf are therefore to
cite and admonish all and Angular the
kindred andcreditors of said deceased, to
be and appear at the next court of ordi
nary to be held in and for said county on
the last Friday in April next, to (hew cause
(if any they have) why said letters fliouhf
not be granted.
Given under my hand at office this Z()tk
of February 1804.
THOs. CARLETON, c. c. o.
GEORGIA, Greene County.
WHEREAS Clayborn Maddox and
Charlotte Walker, hath applied
for letters of difmiflory on the estate and
efftfts of David Walker, late of this
county deceased : These are therefore to
cite and admonish all and Angular the
kindred and creditors of laid deceased,
to be and appear at the next court of ordi
nary to be held in and for this county
on the last Friday in April next, to shew
cause (if any they have) why said letters
fliould not be granted.
Given under my hand at office this 29 th
of February 1804-
THOs CARLETON, c, c. o.