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iifi i ■■ i. -■■■■■mi % g 1 BECKS on Nc\v*York, for sale by V> * THOMAS GARDNER. *, August 16. » . \ Bills on New \ ork AT SHORT SIGHT, fair Sale by A Slaughter & 0. Labuzan* August 16. . ts Bills on New-York For sale by McKenzie, Beiraoch &'Co * August SO. n Bills on New-York For Sale by Benjamin Picqaet. August 23. ts —: —fottiaee; TWO LIKELY YOUNG FEL LOWS—excellent Bricklayers.— Enquire at this office. • Augu4tt3. For Sale or to Rent. A BOUSE and LOT at the upper end of Broadest, as good a stand for buying produce as any in the city—For particulars inqure of T. PYE. August 27. ew STOPPED FLOM a Negro Fellow, a Post Note for a considerable amount, which the owner can have by giving a satisfac tory description of it. Enquire at this office. August 27. BOARD AKD ( 'Entertainment , EOU civil persons either stationary or travelling, at Elbertun. on that well wn lot formerly occupied by Captain Wni. Patterson. People from the low country are invited to visit this scat of health.—A Mineral Spring is convenient to it. The subscriber promises to fur nish supplies for agreeable accommoda tion, to commence on the first of Octo ber next. Thomas Oliver. August 87- c Guardian’s Sale. JN pursuance of an order obtained from the Honorable the Court of Ordinary Columbia Countv—Will bo sold to the highest bidder, on the Ist Tuesday in Oc tober next, at Columbia Court-House, all the lands belonging to the estate of J oseph Ray, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs | of Mid estate; consisting of about 1200 acres, and including a valuable sett of Merchant Mills on Little River. Brick Distillery, Brick Dwelling lion Ac, a Two Story Store House, a large Granary, and a.nurober of other Out Buildings, too te dious to enumerate. The Land general ly 1$ of good quality, and will be surveyed and sold in lots of about 200 or 250 acres &. ina lot. One lot will include the Mills Houses, bic. v The Establishment at Raysrille (td*a man of enterprise) would be an elligible one,for it is believed tohe the most advan tageous situation for Mills and a Store of any in the up country. A farther descrip tion of the |property is deemed unnecessa ry, as it is presumed that persons unac quainted with the situation, and who would have any idea of purchasing, w ill viewr it for themselves previous to the sale. - • Tne Terms*(in part) will be one third, in hand, and the balance in equal instal ments at one and two years, with appro ved personal security, and a mortgage on the property—The ’terms will farther be made known on the day of sale. WILLIAM BARNETT, Guardian \ for the, Minors of Jos. Ray , dec. July 18 lawtds __ In the Court of Ordinary , July Teim, 1817. WJIKUEAS llyrd Murun, la e of the coun *y of Richmond, tiecease.i, in his ‘if, tin,--, ami in the lite lime of John M K late of the same coutry, now also decease, en’ered into an affrei-nient under his hand amt seal, dated the 8 ;st October, 1812, to convey to the said Jilin MKllliu’ a certain tract of land lying in Abbevilie district, adjoining Ben jamin Chiles* land, die wid«.w Mi chel’s lam , William Lipscomb’s (decease.l) land and lands which the said NrKcllar pirchaaed ofDivid ", Thomas and others, cental ing two lumdred and fifty .icres, more or .es*.— md where is the •aid Byrd Mar in and J ,hn M’Kellarhath bolli departed this life intestate without titles hav in'- b ep made pursuant to the said agreement —This ’s therefore to give notice, that appli- C-n ion irwid. by tke heira of the aid I J hn M K> 11 T o 'he honourable the Justices, of t"e inferior court of said county, while ait tinjf for ordinary purposes, and as a court ol ordinary, praying that the administratrix of the %aid Bvtd Martin be ordered to make titles for the said irac or iahd to the heirs of the sai '• John M‘Kellar,Bi have filed with the clerk of .he said cour. of ordinary, a copy of the said agree ment, pud thereupon it is ordered by the said court, tha* notice of the said application bf given in one of the public G uetts of said coun ty, *nce a month stir three months, and that at the court of ordinary next to be held in aipd t for Mild county, after U»e expiration of said’ t brer months, all persons interested be &. appear then and there to shew cause, if 'any they have or can, why such order should not he granted. Taken /ran the Minutes. Isaac Herbert, Clerk. _ 3 £3* WE are authorised to an nounce GER ARD MORRIS, a candidate for J'islice of toe Inferior Court of Co lumbia county/. August 27. .. * ' * \-i !S|£ • sri>U4TmXaf EXGLiurU. •mmm ' Communicated for the Boston Patriot. There are some persons among us, who from a variety of causes, seem incapable of conviction, and either have not under standing sufficient to perceive what is tight, or honesty enough to acknowledge it. Whether those who pow applaud the conduct of the British government to wards their oppressed people, and their defenders, be of this class, each reader is left to determine. It will be impossible for us Americans to be indifferent spectators of what is go ing forward in Old England between the people and their government. It may be •aid that we have no business to concern ourselves with either. But we must change our natures,alter our our inquisit ive habits, and divest ourselves of omJbe nevuieut disposition-*, before we can re main indifferent auditors and spectators of the tragedy now opening in Britain. Our boxes, pit and galleries will applaud and hiss the actors, whether princes, dukes, great lords, generals or common people, just as they appear to deserve praise, censure or ridicule. This being the case, it is Os importance to obtain correct information of the actual state of things in Old England* and this cannot be acquired from the London newspapers during the present reign of terrour. Mobs are terrible tilings and ought to be discouraged every where; but they are not so dreadful and dangerous to the peo ple as Secret Committees, established by a parliament, whoso reformation has been ■ loudly called for. Secret committees of inquest, and the deprivation of the pri j vilege of the Habeas Corpus or personal safety act, constitute the most alarming species of despotism, for it implies a pre vious state of freedom. As descendants of Englishmen we lament that the forms of parliament are tnade use of to destroy the substance of liberty. The reports of the parliament’s secret committee would of themselves be en ough to induce an American to thank Heaven that he is no longer a British sub ject. Extreme alarm appears on the face of them, while they betray, taken collec tively, the most outrageous exaggeration. They say that “the revolution which the people meditated was, if possible, more sweeping anti immediate in its elfects than the French revolution.” Indeed! what evidence could they possibly have had for this sweeping assertion?—The re poiters do not say what atrocious deeds the people havp done, besides hissing,, hooting and pelting the prince regent with mud ami potatoes, but they pretend to tell what they “meant to do.” They meant, says the seport, “to begin by de priving evey man of lands and funded property—to declare all the land in com mon, and to extinguish thefumls.” They next utter the old and dreadful cry that the Church is in danger, and gravely as sert that “they meant to recite profane parodies of the liturgy, or songs blasphe ming the holy scriptures;” and they add they meant to kill the bishops. fMeu of coolness and discernment saw in all this a vile trick, designed to alarm the land holder, the monied-man, and the priest hood, and to rouse the vengeance of all three. But these were not sufficient for their purpose. The soldiery must be o perated on. Accordingly, the strange report goes on to say—“To the soldiers they had, by a second determination, re solved to adopt means of seduction; but the first plan and impulse was the mur der ol the soldiars at midnight. The de sign was, by a sudden rising in the dead of the night, to surprize and overpower them in their different barracks, which were to be set on lire.” All this is grave ly told by the secret commi' tee of par liament, and serihusly believed by think ■ ing John Bull!! Let us hear no more of the credulity of Papists, nor the imposi tions of the priesthood in any country however barbarous. This far exceeds their own gun powder treason, which we used to celebrate so heartily every sth of . of November, and which is now” known to have been at .bottom an imposition on John Bull and his descendants! This midnight murder of, the soldiers was inserted, no doubt, with a view of whetting up the rage of military against the citizens; and was probably done to produce a declaration of war against them. If so, is not this like pampering “the dogs of war” for the chase? The report of the secret committee furthermore adds, “that the prisons were to be drained, and the murderer, the felon, and criminals of every description, were to be, let loose upon the metropolis, with arms, and that pike heads, ana a large quantity of other. arms, were procured.” The fact is, this committee saw a little, imagined a great deal, and presuraptu-. ousl y jumped to a terrible conclusion. At this distance, we can see through all this improbable story; but “thinking” John Bull, will, for a time, believe it all, and will join most cordially in making halters, and forging fetters, and prepar ing dungeons for his own flesh and blood.- The horrid scenes of Ireland will be act ed over again in England: the government will require additional strength; and ter rour will prop up imposture a little while longer. We pity the distressed people of Eng land, especially the women and children - We hope the men will remember how they cryed out foe war against America. It may be that “the.just avenger” is now visiting withchastisementthosc very men V •. y . A; , v V, • # % % ■ who not long since, lifted up their hands and voices against us; and were impati ent at the too tardy foot of victory. We do not wish to see the capital of Britain like Washington city in flames, their suns and daughters slaughtered and abused; but hope to see the people of England driven to due reflection on their unfeel ing conduct towards us. To the question—Why concern our selves with the affairs and conduct of the English? We answer, because there are too many amongst us predisposed to fol low her track. They admire the theory of the English government, but are not apprised of her practice. Our trials are to come; Providence, before it conducts a nation to greatness, leads it through great difficulties and embarrassments.- When storms arise, and storms will come we hope we shall retain our two best an chors, a Free Press add the Habeas Cor pus Act; and not do like the parliament of England, cutaway both from their ship, while in a storm, at short allowance, and with a mutinous crew. Their bad man agement should be a warning to us. Besides, if the transatlantic politician has aflixed a mask on the face of truth, the American politician should take it off and shew her, as she really is, to her ad mirers. Our government has no secrets, no intrigues; neither is she under the -necessity of holding up to the people a picture of things different from the real ity. Few of us read the history of Eng land to the best advantage. We give here a very interesting portion of the history of the present times, drawn from sources in which we have entire confidence.— This account which follows does credit to a distinguished traveller who was in London last February. “Last week the prince regent gravely told both houses of parliament, that this nation “was blest with a system of laws and government wiich has been hitherto felt by ourselves, [meaning the British' people] as it is acknowledged by other nations, to be the most perfect that has ever fillen so the lot of any people.” In going to the house of lords to make that speech, the, prince jregent, the head of the most perfectly stem of law and gov ernment that has ever fallen to the lot of any people; was followed by the hisses and groans, and execrations of an innu merable multitude of this inost blessed and perfectly governed people. In re turning home from making that speech, in the midst of ail his royal magnificence, in his gilded, bullet proof coach, drawn by eight cream coloured horses, caparis oned with harnesses all glittering with gold, tricksied all over with blue satin ribbons, with grooms, and coachmen, and lootmen, and yeomen of the guard, be dizzenetf with gold lace from the crown of the hegd to the sole of the foot, and with a trpop of horse before, at the sides,, and behind the carriage, pressing the* throng back to a distance from it, and a commanding officer repeating incessantly the command “keep them backl—keep them back!”-—with atone as if a herd of tigers were breaking in upon a boarding school! With all this glory, and with all this defence, he passed through a con course of teas of thousands and hundred of thousands of his most happy people, “by his sceptre swayed,” whose mode of manifesting their felicity, was by hisses, groans, cries of—“throw mud at him!”— 7. “pull him out!”—and finally by showers ol etnnes and potatoes! “The master ofthe horse (a most noble duke) and a -lord if the bed-chamber, (son and son-in-law of two other dukes) who were with the prince in the carriage, have attested most solemnly before the house of commons, and before police ma ?;istrates, that in their consciences, and rom their souls, they believe that the window of the carriage was broken by two bullets, shot from a tree, although they heard no report, and .although other witnesses testify that the window was thus booken at a place where there was no tree. But that the glass was broken and pounded to powder by stones, there is no doubt. That potatoes were thrown is also established beyond controversy; and a worthy magistrate, on the examin ation of a man whom he threatened to commit for high treason, for having par ticipated in these demonstrations of joy, observed, th4t “the potatoes spoke for themselves,” and proved a premeditated design of high treason in the people. “No less remarkable is with all this hissing, dnd treasonable clamouring, and pelting, and (as far as courtly testi mony goes) shooting in broad day-light, at noon-day,"in the public highway, and in the presence of myriads of people, al though a reward of a thousand pounds sterling has been offered for the discove ry of any person concerned in the out rage, and pardon to any culprit who will turn king’s evidence against any other, only one man was taken up for’the out rage upon the.royai carriage. He was seized upon the spot by a military officer out of uniform; and three examinations before two magistrates,was,notwithstand ing the most earnest and loyal desire to commit him for high treason, at last re luctantly admitted by them to bail, upon a charge for a. simple misdemeanor, the magistrates bitterly bewailing that they could not get evidence against anybody. “Both houses of parliament, and the corporation of London, and the loyal liv ery of London, and counties and corpora tions, without number, have presented, and are presenting to his royal highness, loyal and dutiful addresses, assuring him their horror at the actrocious and trea sonable assault upon the bullet proof coach —congratulating him upou his providsa tlal escape from the%ullel3 and the stones and the. potatoes, that “spoke fwthem selves,” protesting of their affection, re spect and veneration for his person—and indeed throughout all the ranks of loy alty, it ia universally agreed that the un popularity of his royal highness is utterly unaccountable; a mere wanton, unpro voked and corseless caprice of the peo ple! “There was a meeting of the common council in London, called to consider of an address to the prince, congratulating him on his providential escape from the atrocious assault of some rash and intem perate individuals, but the recorder told them that he and the common sergeant, and all the city officers, were of opinion, that if the common council agreed to that, address, the whole batch of them would be gu|lty of misprision of treason; for it was itself a high crime and misdemeanor’ to call high treason rash and intemper ate only. So they had another meeting at which the rash and intemperate indi viduals were left out,' and the atrocious turned into a traitorous assault. “This is not the only commentary upon the most perfect system of law and gov ernment, presented by the present session of parliament. About half a million of people have signed petitions for a reform in parliament, and universal suffrage.— The house received a very small part of these petitions, and ordered them to lie on the table. They rejected most of them fur containing expressions disrespectful to the house; or because the petition is on one piece of parchment, and the signa tures on another; and almost all the mem bers of all parties declare themselves de termined against the object of the peti tions. Numbers es people are literally starving, and a secret committee of both houses are brooding over a green bag of treasons and conspiracies against the mmstitution, which are to terminate in new laws of restriction anon the liberty of the people. Such is the condition of this most perfect system of law and gov ernment. in a time of profound peace, af ter the termination of what they called a glorious, successful and triumphal t war! Thus floats the fast-anchored isle.” This is the most correct and lucid ac count of the attack on his royal highness the prince regent, that has hitherto ap peared with its causes and consequences. It is from the pen of an American, dis tinguised for his talents and learning, and has been several years travelling in Europe, and was an eye witness of what e describes. The populace of London admire and scorn, applaud and reproach, court and persecute the same person, as their fancy is occasionally moved, or as fortune fa vours the person. But when pressed down with taxes, pinched for food, and shivering with cold, they become serious and terrible. Then their masters can no longer drive them, but they must deceive them and entrap them before they can hind them. The reports of both houses of parliament are of this sort. In ordi nary times the people of England are ge nerally zealous for their opinion in pro portion to its absurdity, and sometime the more ridiculous the more fierce the zeal of its votaries in its defence. The English are generally speaking, a wrong headed people, and uncharitable in proportion to their bigotry, #hi< h com monly operates against the welfare of all mankind beyond their own Island.— No people, Chinese or Japanese, have a more bigoted creed, religious, political &■ national, than these Islanders. Their church is the freest from corruption and nonsense of all others; their watriors are the most valiant and magnanimous and tender hearted of all mankind; and their judges are the wisest and most equitable and impartial of all judges! The truth is, that in no Country upon earth have the streams iff justice been more frequent ly and more foully polluted. In no coun try have the supreme courts of judicature been so generally and so uniformly sub servient to the executive authority. But their creed asserts their absolute and in violable purity, and whoever affirms to the contrary shall, beyond all doubt, per ish everlastingly. Let Englishmen no longer boast of their liberty, when truth is a libel jn England. The more truth with which a man can support his asser tion, the greater the libel! Such is John Bull’s logic, and John Bull’s law. It is a happy circumstance for the wel fare of the human race, that the Ameri can free press, the only free one now in the world, can diffuse those truths around the world, and transmit them to our p*s ty-ity as a warning agaiftst the miseries of a monarchial government. ®> London, June 29; An account of the number of persons now in confinement in Great Britain, by warrant of either of the secretaries of £tate or of six privy councillors, detained under the provisions of an act, passed in the present session of parliament, for en abling his majesty to secure and detain such persons as his majesty shall suspect are conspiring against his person and go vernment, with the places of their con finement:—Jail at Reading, 3; Tothill Fields, Bridewell, 3; Jail at Horsemon ger lane, for the county of Surrey, 4; Jail at Chelmsford, 4; Jail at Gloucester, 2; House of Correction for the county of Middlesex, IS; Jail at Exeter, for the county of Devon, 6. The great arsenal at Caraftca, near Ca diz has been consumed by fire. The fol lowing account is given in one of the Pa lis papers of Friday: “The burning of the .. - . .jfc immerse establishment at Can-' i I spread constcFnation 'throughout ~ .'I »•■ . •« «PP«to eg event is connected with n i r‘*l al enterprises, the object of v.hici f’l to prevent the equiping of ships „ destined to convey to South considerable force. The manrin M Caracca, notwithstanding the mistm tunS of Spam, contained still every thin* ■ cessary for the equipinga powerful CM Every thing has been destroyed: the walk was six hundred paces l on * ,' P J was considered equal to any thing whi ® England or France possesses of th?s kin® The .was so violent tl I the isle of Leon, which is separated fr.lll ** * basin was cover «d with! ' Th e expense of the fete given by thM • inarqris de Manalva, the Portuguese anul • , f lehna, on occasion 0 f (Kp! late marriage,is estimated there atamil II hqn of florins (83,0001.) The royal (vB nuly were served upon gold plate; the o-B ther guests,upon silver. Building wereß expressly for it, which are to remain, andß another fete is to be given them for theß benefit of the poor. g The earthquakes which were repeated B ly felt soipe time since in Sicily, had been! followed by an eruption of Mount vEtna I For seven days the volcano poured forth! its boiling lav?, through several openings | Large excavations have also been pro-| duebd in the earth, but no inhabitants! have been destroyed, and no lives lost. 11 It is mentioned in privated letters, that I the Confederates, upon the solicitation o) | England, have determined to deprive the! yrung Napoleon of his mothers princiß palitv in Lombardy, and to bestow it; at! the death of Maria Louisa, upon Spain. June 26—The die is cast—and we must learn, in future, to live upon the recolleo tion of what we have been and forgetting what we are Last night the suspension act passed the commons, & St. Stephens bell tolled for the death of departed Kn-1 glish liberty; but whether with the blest hope of a glorious resurrection in sight months or eight years, or seven, is rather s matter of uncertainty. Lord Castlereagh distinctly stated in the House of Commons, on Thursday night, that there will be no dissolution of parliament this year. It appears by the Dublin papers that in consequence of the riots in that city, arising the high price of provisions, the lord Mayor has issued a proclamation requiring the inhabitants to remain with in their respective habitations from nine o’clock each night till six in the morning, and directing all - public houses to be shut during those hours. A Russian fleetof eight sail of the line, one frigate, ard one brig, have anchored in Calais Roads, for the purpose of carry ing off the Russian troops, to the amount of ] 0,000, expected there in about 4 days to embark; " ' ' ■ From the National Intelligencer. EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE: “St. Mary’s, August S, 181 7. “General Sir Gregor M 4 Gregor still' remains on Amelia Island, having recei ved no material addition of force since you last beared from this place. For him to advance, therefore, to St. Augustine, with his present small undisciplined par ty which does not amount to two hundred men, would be the highest of rashness, when people of information in this quar ter, suppose that three thousand veterans would be incompetent to take St. Augus tine, with proper officers and a proper train of artillery. The present invasion of East Florida,, has never been popular in this vicinity,’ and it is daily losing the few supporters of respectability it at first possesed. It is viewed by people of feeling, if not an unwarrantable, and distur bance to the inhabitants of that province. The high-sounding and deluding epithets of Patriot Hero and Liberty , are lost in their commisseration for the deplorable situation of that country at present, foe the inhabitants of which, in this vicinity, we not only feel as fellowmen—we fee! for them as countrymen, (as they gener ally are,) and vye feel for tnem as friends and connections. Before the arrival of General M‘Grc(- gor, the province of East Florida was ini a state of quiet and peace, having learnt a useful lesson from the misfortunes of the former insurrection; feeling a grati tude to the government of Spain for the lenient manner they had been treated af ter it was subdued: and, being attached to the present governor of the province, whose very pride it has been to make the people contented and happy', by assimi lating the instructions of the country, as nearly as Spanish policy would permit, to the enviable regulations of the U- States—they therefore, w ished no change but that which they expected would lake place in the course of one or two years, by a regular cession of that province to the United States, when they should be again admitted into the bosom of this gov ernment, the happy institutions ol which, as well as the prejudices of nativity, cause them to admire it before all others. This is tne situation of the inhabitants of East Florida, when a stranger and a foreigner, unsolicited, unasked, and no., even wished for, arrives to revolutionize them. The small force he has brougn with him, does not enable him to do any thing of consequence. The Governor*' the province, to man the walls of St. A • »