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#ie boufe ofcapt. Andrew Baiofey & patst«g I
said Barney, Sc then puffing on down the river
•—and in (bins foort time alter heard that the
aforefaid party was attacked by a party of the
britifh k that col. Jones was wounded, capt.
Gjldwirc killed tc J. Hatcher wounded,
by means ofUhich wound he (the latter)
loft his leg—and this deponent also declares
that the alurcfaid 'Jeremiah Hatcher never
was fit.it in capt. Burney's horfe-pen.*
GEORGE fI&NDERi
Sworn to before me this 1
1 6ih /iugtjl j 805. j
VT AI.TER TaTLOK, J. P. L. S.
btatc of South Carolina, \
Barnwell OifriA, J
Appeared bdbrtfjme Walter Taylor, who
being sworn, faycth, that he recollects du.
ring the Revolutionary War of this country
to have seen a party of British Troops thtrt
Rationed in Augusta, under the command
(I Col. ftrow'n, come to Silver Bluff lath
one cvemrig, And remain there until after
(upper, When they (uddtnly went off and
in a fhoit time I heard guns fire, as I *fup
pnfed to be by them ; which excited a good
deal of alarm on the plantation and excited
a confidcrahlft desire in the inhabitants of the
place to know the caurfc of tiv, firing, the
gtnr. which we heard arid filppofcd to be fired
by the party of Tioopj just mentioned J
1 feme time before day feme of the party
retort.'d to Silver. Bluff and gave information
rs ottvking a patty of Americans, who
v.'cie fecivfec! at a plantation of Col. Hen
ry Jones, to the lower end of Beac h-Hand,
known by the mrfle of the Poke-patch, and ‘
that they had Ihot (omc of them. 7he .next
morning wc heard that the parry of Ameri
cans alluded to, w;:s commanded by Col.
John Jonas, and that he was wounded,
James Goldwirc one of the party, killed,
and Jet eta ah Haieher another of flic parry
foot, l>y wtveh foot we. afterwards uoder.
stood he 101 l his leg —and further this depo
nent faith nor.
WALTER TAYLOR.
Sworn to lefbie me this 26th \
day of Auguf, 1806. J
Thomas Newman, j. p.
“ Eads ate ftubbotn things” and not tot
be foaken or evaded by party malice or the
ccnnihg of unprincipled defamers J and did
1 not foppofe that the deleft able calumny
attempted to be propagated against rry
chamber, was abundantly deleted and
refuted by this time, other affidavits of men
equally could be given 'to the
public, I foall carefully preserve the origin,
sis of ihe foregoing affidavits at Edgefield
Court-Hcwfe, where I pledge inyfclf to the
public, they may be fprn at any time and by
any pcifon who rnuy wifo to peruse thcm.+
It is now intended by a fourt statement
to account to the public why a man of Col.
Martin's (landing in a religious, civil and
military point of view, Chou id so abufc
himfdf, as to tolerate a hateful, and I hope
1 may fay, an ungrateful (lander against me.
It has already been hinted tbrtt the Col. and
rnyfeif have never (at any rate fora long
time) been in unison either as to political
principles, political Men, or political me a -
J'stres. It is confidently believed that our
difference commenced at or about the time
the celebrated Robert Good lew Harp ft be
gun his political career, by being defied
a member to congress from the clef lion dis.
trifl, which at that time included Edgficld ,
County. Harper's condufl is now too well
known to need many animadversions, fuf
fice it to f.ty tint, altho’ he set out with
the condo (I of a raving democrat, and as
the peculiar friend, cf the people, yeti be.
lieved him, in a Rvwr time, to be too proud
and ambitious at heart to be sincere in his
profeffions. Did net his very outfec in Con.
goTs prove the truth of my suspicions f
Bid he not aiijciaie himfdf imd afl, in
every important political measure with tbc
men who were then eodeavcOring to beat
down the fair f»jn»c cf otir liberties, and
whom eleven twelfths of ihe American uco.
pic, have finer spurned ft cm their pseftnee ?
To palliate his ruonftrous couduO, and ac
count for its glaring inconfiftcncy with his
firft profeflions, he vrrote pamphlets, long
letters, and mad*; fpeechrs, which he con.
tinually poured in upon his cenftituents to
sustain his bloated popularity, Nothing
was read in opposition to him, at that time,
w hereas yea could fend on the foeif or in the
book case of every man, who had any prc.
Motion* to influence, Harper's letters, fpee.
chesand phamphkts. The natural
Cjaor.ce was that he enchained and Emitted
feversl charaflers,-firft to himfelf, and then
to lus principles. Among ethers, with
fobmiflion, 1 mention Col. Martin, and
force of h;s intimate friends, two or three
of whom have bun named. They fuppor
trd Harper to the last. The delusion bow.
r. - A.
*Mr. George Render at that time lived
with capt. Burney, in whiff horfe-pett I
was repnfcKtcd by my calumniators to have
le-n Jhot,
f As to Cel. Martin's ajfertion at the
Meeting.houft Hut 1 myfelf had told him
that 1 was /hot in the ad of ft ling Bur.
try's horses, it is really too absurd, incon.
ffient and ridiculous to merit ary other no.
lice than this, that I believe the Col. made
it, and came prepared to make it for two
reasons; the f rf, to cover the more artfully
any unfounded calumnies againfi me, which
to fay the leaf! of it, had"been before that
time Jan&loned by him, end which he feared
would recoil upon himfelf St bis own intenf
in the election as font as detefied; and the
second was U Jave himfelf from or to avoid
an aQ ion at law fer the f under, in which
he ntuft have apprehended beany damages,
the public will draw its own inference,
eves fooh began t» wdai away, and the
motions of this political demagogue were
properly appreciated, by the bulk of the
people. Willi what little influence I had
I opposed him, and my oopofition increased
at every eledioo, in proportion as his gigan
tic and ambitious strides after power were
displayed to the view of the world.—That
Col. Martin was hla undeviating friend
and fupporttr I have already said, and I
have not wanted proofs to convince me that
he has ever since been Harper's friend , and
the J fund of hit principles. The col. has
since been a candidate for the Gate legisla
ture at almost every elcdicn. I have, to
gether with a large portion of the citizens
of this diftrid with.whom I have had the
honor to ad (and whom I am proud to fay
at this day form a majority of the diftricV)
as uniformly opposed Martin's eledion.;—
Thavc done so from principle. He is well
known to be ambitious of political prefer
ment, artd to have gone great lengths to
infurc it. In the fu.amer us 1804, he made
ati open prolcllion of religion, and joined
one of the Baptiil Churches. In the fall of
the fame year he was elected as one of three
members to the house of rcphcfcntativcs of
the Gate iegifiature, by a majority of seven
votes over the fourth candidate. * It would
be too tedious ro notice the circumftauces
Attending the election, although they would
the more dearly uhravil this nun's charac
ter, for the public Will fee that lam at
tempting to Grow a difpofiiion in him to
wards me, which will account for his Hin
der, 1 will merely mention (which 1 am
ready to prove) that he attacked me in a
very abrupt, unprovoked and infolfent man
ner, at the election held at his own mutter
gtound in 1804. At the ftffion of the
legislature fuccccding, he obtained the elec
tion (I do not mean by hit a<ivn inf Hence)
of his favorite candidate for the Sheriffship
ol this djftrid, in oppofuio'n to the voices
of ail the members of the fame diftrid, which
so rejoiced him, and which he thought
would so mortify thole who had always op
posed him, from principle, that he addrefled
trie from Columbia a letter, of which this is
art exad copy.
December Sth, 1564.
SIR,
I have the pleasure ol congratulating you
oh Mr. John Allfcn's cledion as Sheriff of
Edgefield Dill rid--1 begin to think the
chain is broken tho’ liuk’t as strong as you
thought, 1
i havdmorcat prefenfbut remain yours &c.
BARKLEY MARTIN.
This letter I confefs furpized me, on ac
count dl bisfelcdingincisrhcpcrfont-o whom
he fhotild dired his killing finite and fwoln
burlesque, whcti there were many, very ma
ny others who equally opposed the preten
tions and views, ol himfclf and his minions
The little pedantic tribe of emissaries, w ho
had sprung from the alhes of the renowned &
puissant Harper 1 I fed the warmefl emotions
of zeal and felf approbation beating in my
bosom, wheh I tell my Icllow citizens that
1 have opposed and still will oppose the po.
It heal advances 0/Col. Martin, and thole
whofc icntiments are congenial with his,
until I witness in them, a thorough and ra
dical change of principle, and cOndcd. I
(hall fed jollified to my country, that I have ’
opposed him and will still oppose him, not
1 only bccaufe I think his political principles,
are rotten , but liccanfe he has taken by the
hand, as his moll intimate friends and com
panions, and has fandioned the condad of
a let of men, who have no fettled principles
of adion; who are veered about as the winds
ftf intertft, may carry them, who have
by the molt black and unfounded lies and
Handers attempted to taint and destroy the
• characters oi tlie most refpcdablc personages
in our diftrid ; men who have been high in J
its confidence ever since the revolution and v
whole characters even the breath of (lander
and malice, dared never to alTail until this
fix arm was unhivtd ! I am bold to fay that
the confidential friends of CoL Martin have
thus attempted ft blacken and beat down
those men high in the confidence of their fel
low citizci.s, to make way fur their own pro
motion to find places of honor And profit for
this hungry swarm of busy infeds J
k rom the whole of the foregoing statement,
I trull the public will be able to fee most clear
ly ho* high the political pulse of Col. Mar
till has beat towards me, and when it is fur
ther dated, that he was a candidate for the
leg.ftatureac the time of the propagation of
the flnndcr agamft me, and apprehending all
opposition I would have given him (which 1
pledge myfclfili.it be fbould have had, had
it not been for his hidden declinfion of being
»candidate, shortly after the rencounter at
the Meeting.houfie,) I asn sure my fellow
citizens will not be so much aftor.Sfhed at
his condud towards rfic, and will be ena
bled to judge how far be has aded the part
of a good thriftsait, an honest politician, yr
upright private citizen . Into their
hands 1 commir him,
JEREMIAH HATCHER.
Edgefield, S. Carolina, Sept , 2 1, 1 806.
I
StERL.caEEK 20th Sept. iBel.
E)ear Sir,
1 received a letter from Mr. Taylor some.
rime finer, informing that yoti request me to
fend you a certificate of the unfortunate cir
cumflance that occaficned {he loss of your
leg, 1 wi(b it was in ray power to mention
every minutirs tefpeding it, but the length
of time that has since clapfed, and never ex
pedingto be called pn to teftify what I knew
of it, has fullered ft, in a great mealarc, to
escape ray recolledion—however; this much
I perfedly recoiled, that you were in com
pany with men of charader and refprfhtbUi
-1
ty, Who had ftcpf forward it the caifieft pe
riod, of our revolution to lend iheir aid in
eftablHhing our free, happy and independent
government —I remember that the Skirrniih
in which you loft your leg, happened at a
place in Beach. Hand, called the Poak-patch,
about three mile* from Silver-Bluff. I be
lieve the guns were diftmllly heard from that
place, in the (kirmilh Mr. James Gold wyre,
a very and refpeitable citizen of
Georgia, was killed- —Col. John Jones, a
manofthefirft refpeflability, also of Geor
gia, was (hot through the arm, and made
a prisoner with yourfelf. The name of the
British officer that commanded the party you
engaged wit))* I do not at pfefent recoiled ;
-fori never had -any acquaintance with Brown's
effiects j but I know that thty were a party
detached from the army that was in Garrifun
in Augusta, under the command of Colonel
Brown—l have known you and many of
yotir family for more than twenty years 5
you were all {launch Whigs in the time of
our revolutionary war; Four of your rela
tives were Dragoons in Major Car’s inde
pendent Tioop, in which I served the last
two years of the war, as a Volunteer; and
it is well known the fcrviccs they performed*
—“Mr. Taylor mentioned to me the circum
fiance that induces you to request certificates
of this kind-—lt is very much to bfe lamen.
red, that irftcad cf afperflng the character of
each other, we cannot be more unanimous
in our femimenis in politics* and use our
joint exertions in fnpporting the liappieftgo.
vernraent cn earth—The government poin
ted out to us by Heaven, when Hie placed,
by her influence, that virtuous & sage repub
lican Jtfferfm (the firft of mankind) in the
presidential chair, to adminiftcr if. If this
Tetter anfwcrs the object for which you re
quest it, you have jt with the utmost good
: will, and if ncceflary I will be qualified to
the fads stated-
I am Dear Sir your obed’t servant.
T. GALPHIN.
Mr. Jeremiah Hatcher.
Edgtjitld D'tjlrtd.
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LATEST FROM ENGLAND:
By Jh':p Sally. Ann arrived at Bojiaiu
LONDON, JutYiii
The expedition about to proceed to the
Mediterranean, will consist of the corps
which we diredlly mentioned on Tuefday,
as being destined for that fervicc. The
whole force will amount to upwards of 12,-
o»o men. Two hundred atid fifty men be
longing t o the 2d battalion of the firft re.
giment of guards, have volunteered to join
the ill and 3 battalions of that corps, which
form a part of the expedition,—This brigade
will be tiiider the orders of general Wynyard.
The embarkation will commence about the
middle of next week. All this, , furcly,.
displays no pacific difpofttion on the part of
dur government.
July 19.
The removal of the crews of the Prussian
vcffels from on board their (hips to prison,
has been the forerunner, as it was natural to
cxpslf, of the departure of the Prussian am
bafTador Jacobi, who has received orders to
leave this country, and who is expelled to
set off about the end of next week*
July 22. V
The Constance frigate arrived at Ports.
mouth on Saturday ; spoke, dn the preceding
Thursday, an American schooner, the Hope,
P* Woodward, mailer—*ffie had' just came
out of Checbourgh. The maltcr of her de
clared, that he read in the Moniteur, that
a had been signed at Paris, between
the &55*fror and the Porte, by which the
former is permitted to march troops through
the Tutkith territory to Egypt.
T he reports of American mailers prove in
general, Hr erroneous, that we may fairly
question tlic accuracy of this intelligence*
A mail from Gottenhurgh arrived yester
day. The general opinion is, that a war
with Prussia is inevitable. The army in
Pomerania has taken a new and advanced
polition j considerable reinforcements were
also expelled at Straflund.
>ly 24.
Parliament was prorogued by
commission. This event was announced by
the followingaddrefs to both Houfea: ‘ ■
“ Lords and Gentlemen,
*• His Majcfty has commanded us to ac
quaint you, that the state if the public bu.
fmefs enables his Majesty toclofe this fefiion
cf Parliament. '
(( We are, at the fame time, direeled to
express to you the great fatisfaftion which
his Majcfty has derived from your unremit,
ting zeal and deligence, and from that at
tention to the most important interefh of his
empire, which has been so confpicucfly man.
ifefted in allVour proceedings. 7
■ “ The mcafares which have been adopted
for the permanent improvement of the vari
ous branches of Our military system, your ar
tendon to combine these arrangements with
the greatobjell of public economy, and the
regulations which you have eftabliflied for
the speedy and effcftnal audit of the public
accounts, call for his Majesty's particular
acknowledgements.
“ Gentlemen of the Heu/e cf Commons,
“ We have in cotiuoantl from his Majesty
to thenk you for the provision which you
have made for the various exigencies cf the
pubhc fervicc, particularly by railing, with.
IL ? V ? Y lar 2 e a Proportion of
the necessary fupphes, a meafurc in Itfclf high.
Ls !^! ag=ODS J f nd * hich must «eate,
both at home and abroad, themoft favorable
rmpreffion ofour national resources, &of the
fyitn which amnßtes the BrkiOt pdoplc
Vou may be affuted, that the utrcbtl attend
non (hall be paid tothefiugal adminiftratiwi
ot these fupplics which you have so Hbcully
granted.
“ His Majesty is particularly sensible of
the frelh proof he has received of your affec
tionate attachment to him, in the prov ifon
which you have made for enabling the youn
ger branches of his Royal Family to" meet
theneceffary cxpences of their fiaticn.
u My Lords and Centime?! ,
( “ Hts Msjtfty being always anxicos for
the reft'oratioh of peace cn just and hanorabis
terms, is engaged in difethfiens wish a view
to the acccmphihment of this mod defifabld
trd. Their success must depend cna corres
ponding difpofuion on the part of the enemy ;
and in every event, his Majesty leeks with
the ful!eft confidence to the continuance of
that union and public spirit among all ranks
i of his people, which can alene give energy
to War, or lecurity to Peace."
Then a commission for proroguing the
Parliament was reads After w fcich the Lord
Chancellor I'aid;
“ My Lords and Gentlimen t
i “By virtue of his Majefty ’ s Commifiicn
under the Great Seal* to us and other Lords
directed, and now read, we do* in his Ma.
jetty’s name, and in obedience to his con;*
manes, prorogue this Parliament to Thurs,
day, the 28th day of August next, to be
then here hcldtn : and this Parliament is at,
cordingly prorouged to Thuifday, the 28th
day oi August ucm/*
The French aie fending all their difoofa
ble force on the other ftde cf the Alps, so
the Neapolitan territory, or Dalmatia, evi
dently far the intended terqueft cf Sicily,
and to extend ihe/Ficnch power on the Ihoie
of the Adriatic.
A divider of French trobps has also £i#d
off towards Leghorn, and every fortrefs In
the States of the Church is occupied by them
—a prelude to the downfall ol both these so.
vercigns. Before the expiration of many
weeks wc (hall hear that the Pope and the
cf Etruria have been deprived of their
• refp&ive dignities, and condensed to pass
the rest of their days in obftjbmy, upon a
stinted and precarious bounty. The weak,
nefs of both will be alike urged for the future
residence of the Pope.;;
Four new loCefcighi ire talked of i«
Germany, namely, the Electors of Baden,
Hclfe, Hesse Darmftadt, and the Duke ot
Cleves {Prince Murat.)
A private letter from Hamburg furniflirs
us with the following important article, in
addition to this report of the American cap
tain :
“ The French ate preparing, it is said,
to fend an army cf 60,000 men, in threedi
vifions, through Aftatic Turkey, to attack
the British poffeflions in the Eaft-Indiss.
Can it be any pdft of the ebjeft of the ex*
peditibns now fitted out in our ports, to
counteratl these defignj ? k
The faft failing (hip Independence, caps.
Walker, arrived this morning in 40 days
from Greenock. C«pr. Walker has polite
ly favored us with Greenock papers to
the 4th of August.
London, July, 23.
Mr. Pinkney, the American agent, fpc.
cially commifliantd by the United Stares to
edjuft all differences with this country, has
not yet been enabled to have an interview
with Mr; Fox, in consequence of bis indif,
pofiticni and Mr. Pinkney bas been in Erg.
land three weeks.
July 27.
Yesterday a bag of letters was received at
the Poft.Office* from Holland, with accounts
to the 24th inst. One from Amsterdam of
that date, mentions that Louis Bonaparte
had, in a numerous company, dated, that
the negociations for peace now carrying on
between the courts of Paris and London,
included Holland, Spain and the Allies cf
France generally ; that thiy were proceed
ing with the most amicable disposition on
both (ides; and that he was assured, that
the French Emperor would pay the rood
friendly * eonfideration to ths interests of
Holland. It was believed at Amttcrdam,
that Preliminaries would be signed before
the clafc oftteprefent month.
July 28,
The messenger who arrived From Paris on
Friday, is undetftced to have brought a
copy of the Separate Treaty of Peace, con
cluded between Ruflia and France, which is
sud to have been signed yesterday fe’en
r.ight. The terms are reported to be, that
Russia (hall keep the Seven and that
Sicily (hall remain in the hands of his Sici
lian Majesty, Russia, of course, is to re
cognife the late changes on the continent.
July 29*
Mr. Fox, we are lorry 10 fay, is so very I
ill, that even the most (anguine of his friends fl
have ceafcd to hope so; Ids recovery. „ L I
would be abusing the public |o difgsifc the I
fears that arc entertained for this able ftaret* |
man.— Star, J
July jO. I
Both lord Lauderdale and lord H^H ara a
are making preparations to fee cut cn 3 f-’ r - I
tlgn million, It is not true, however, as ■
has been this morning reported, that eu-cc ■
of them has yet set off. Lord Holland, 3
is generally understood, is to proceed to ■
Madrid—Lord Lauderdale to Paris. m
Pariiamcnr, ivc underhand,- meet r '* ol ‘‘ M
the middle of Cfiober j but it is conn-k' I*' 1 *' ■
ly expetfted in the political circle, that > ■
dissolution will take place in the intervening ■
period.— Sun. I
J al y 3 1 * . I
A messenger arrived in town yeuc'y; ■
with difptchei from Par's, and 3 I