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jUGU S T A: (Georgia) Printed by D. DRISCOL* near the market, SATURDAY, July sB, 1807. [3 Dolls.per Ann
(By Authority.)
AN ACT
Making p'ro’vljtons for the disposal of the pub
lie lands, fstuated bitvoeen the U. States
military trail and the Conrtefiicut refer ve t
and for other purpfeSt
STv it enact eddy the senate and Ihttfe of
Representatives of the United States
of America , in, Congress affembled> That
thr thedifpofd of the lands ot the U. States,
fitiiaiei between the United States military
tratt and the Connefttcat rfferve, a land of
fice (ball beeftablifucd, which (hall be kept
n£ such place' as the-President of the United
St i es may direfl ; and that for the disposal
oft he lands of the United States, lying on
tlic Ohio liver, between the Cincinnati and
Vincennes diftrUlc, a land office (hall be ef
tabiifhcd at Jeffcrfbnviile : and for each of
tite said offices a register and receiver of pub.
lie m mics thall be appointed, who (hall give
fecarlty in the fame manner, in the fainc
funis, and whose co npenfutioa, emoluments,
duties and authority, (hall, in every refpeft,
be the fame, in relation to the lands which
(hall bedifpofed of at their offices as arc or
maybe provided bylaw, in relation to the
icgiirers and receivers of public monies in the
several offices eftahlifhed for the disposal of
the lands of the United States, north of the
river Ohio, and above the mouth of Ken
tucky river.
Sec. 2, And be it further enatledy That
all the lands of the Untied Stares, in the said
didricis, (hdl, with the exception of the
feftbn number fixtech, and with thecxcep,
tion aifo of thirteen fedtions, including the
lower town of Delaware tribe of Indians,
and their improvements, which f.id thirteen
fedions (hall be drfignated hy the ftcreraiy
of the Treasury, and (hall He refer ved for
the use ot the said tribe at d their defendants
so long as they continue to refidc thereon,
and cultivate the fame, be offered torfale to
the highett bidder, under the direftion o(
the register of the land office, and of the re
ceiver of public monies, at the places, re
fpcftively, where the land offices are kept,
and on such day or days as (hall, by proc
lamation the United States,
beaefignated for that purpofc : be Tales (hall
remain open at each place for fix weeks, and
no longer; the lands (hall not be fold for
Jess than two dollars per acre, and (hall in
every other refpeft, be fold in trafls of the
fame size, and on the fame terras and con
dition#, as have been, or may be by law
provided for lands fold north of the river O
hi ), and above the mouth of the Kentucky
river. AH the lands cf the United States,
in the said diftrifts, with the exceptions a
bovementioned, remaining unfold at the
dose of the public sales, may be diprfed of
at private fair, by the register of the refpec
tivc land cffi.es, in the farhe manner, under
the fame regulations, for the farce price, and
on the fame terms and condhions, as a eor
may be provided, by law, for the sale of the
lands of the United States north of the ii.
ver Ohio, and above the mouth of the Ken
tucky river. And patents fhnl be obtained
for all lands fold in said districts, in the fame
manner and on the fame terms as are provi.
ded by law, for other public lands fold in
the (late of Ohio and the Indiana territory..
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
the several fupeiiritendants of public sales,
directed by this aft, (hall receive fix dollars
a day, foa each day's attendance 0:1 the said
(ales.
Sec. 4. ittd be it further enafled t That
the President of the United S'ares, in the.re
cefi of Congress, (hall have full power to ap
point and commiflfon Hie registers and receiv
ers of public monies of (he land offices fftab-,
liffied by this a£i, and their corcroiffions (hall
continue In force until the end of the ftffion
of Congress next ensuing such appointments.
Sec. 3. And be it further enafledt That
the several lead mines in the Indiana terriio
ry, together with as many fctTions contigu
ous to each aa Ihall be deemed necessary by
the President of the I nited States, (hall be
reserved for the future disposal of the United
States ; and any which (hall hereafter
be made for a trait of land containing a lead
mine, which had been difeovered previous
to the porchafc of such traft from the United
States, (hall be considered fraudulent and
null: And the President of the United States
(hall be and hereby is authorifed to leale a
ny lead mine, W’hich has been or may here
after be difeovered in the Indiana territory,
Or for a term not exceeding five years.
Sec. 6 And be it further enaStdy That
George A(b (hall have the right and pre
emption to fix hundred and forty acres of
land including bis improvement on the river
Ohio, below the former Indian boundary
line, the boundaries of the trail (hall be de
i figoated by the register of the land office, and
l the said land (hall be granted to him at the
I fame manner as for other public land at pri
lyate sale, the rcfpe&ive inftalmcnts of the
Iparchafc money (hall become due at the fame
■time with the payments of the fiift public
Bands fold in that diftrift.
NATHi, MACON.
Speaker of the hottje of Reprefentatlves,
S. SMITH,
Prejident of the Senate fro tem.
Approved, Match 3, 1807.
TH; JEFFERSON.
GEORGE GUELPH!
During the life of his father, the prefcnt
king was placed under the care of Dr. Hater,
Bitbop of Norwich ; this gentleman pos
sessed an enlarged mind, was educated him
felf in the genuine principles of whigifm,
and had early led his pupil to the ftody of
the works of Algernon Sidney, Milton and
Locke—The boy himfelf was no way re
markable, except for oHftjnaCy, which was
always encouraged by his mother. On the
death of his father, he was taken from Dr,
Hater, and his mother at once a bigot and a
r- placed him under the care of her Pa.
ramoar, the celebrated Earl of Bute, Un
der his tuition he was inttrufted in the de
ferable doflrioes of fir Robert Filmer, and
taught to-admire the ccremonh's of Laud
and the politics of Sachemel—thus inftruc
red by a mailer of no mean grade in thefij
doftrines, which muftever be dear to kings.
George (prettily difolaycd qualifications
which gratified his mo her and ht,r Paramour.
Jn his youth, he exhibited the hypperify of
a Joseph outface, deceiving the vulgar hy
his bigot ted enthufiafrn and the fair
by promises never preformed, whilit he has
permitted her children by him, to seek their
bread where chance might throw them.
Early imprelfed with the belief that the
many were created fer the few, and th-.t
the king corn'd do no wrong, we mull-not
he furpriild, that as a fun he never paid a
cent of his Lthet’s debts, as a man fe has
deferred his own ch Id'en, expended every
year more than his income, and atfhtally ap
plied the dtatc of the Duchy of Cornwall
to his Own purposes during the minority of
his son, altlio’ legally it was that fun's pro
perty from the moment of his hir.h.
George afeended the throne of England at
the meridian of its fpkndor. The Elder
Pitt who is laid to have wielded the Demo
cracy of the country, was at once, haughty
and tyrannical, ardi nr, eloquent and big
wiih oligarchic prejudice ; lu ffn-vc perhaps
foccefsfully to render the Bnrifh equal to
Greek or Roman fame. He kited the ta
lents of the Empire, and fired with tnthufi.
afm her fubjedls in each hemifpherc ; it was
in consequence of his adminifttation that the
colors of Britain, aided by her faithful chil
dren on this fide the Atlantic, were feco
flying on the walls of Quebec, and over the
ramparts of the Moro Castle,
It required no inconftderable management
to dismiss so popular an adminiitiarion at
the commencement of a re’gn ; it washiw
ever efFefted, and the king married to a wo
man more remarkable for feififh avarice tbun
female virtue.
Lord Chatham taught the Democracy of
England to feel its weight. The nobility
divided into two parties, one of which fought
their interest by servile submission to the
crown, equally bending their own body
and that of rhe people to its win, the other
conceiving the tights of the H mie of Butnf
wick d- rtved from their forefather’s grant,
having fi,.ce its . cr ffion generally governed
the crown, expected ard demanded it? con.
tinned fuhmiflian —George, however, never
intended to be a k»rgb> halves—The Cler
gy were peculiarly under his influence, and
could create lotds fader than mufhroons can
fprotir; the oligarchical party was compell
ed to fuhmit, and even to court the demo
cracy, the king and his friends governed as
they pleased, and almost all who resided
funk under the malignity of their persecuti
on. While thus triumphant at home, lord
Araherfl: wrote to the minifler of the day
and stated the wealth of these colonies and
urged the propriety of taxing them* As
fill jefls were believed to be only created to
miniftcr to the desires of kings, rcfiftance
was never contemplated*—it was however
commenced and independence offered. The
refources of the nation,
and cvffy fmew was strained to inforcc our
submission. From situation as well as habit
he detefled the principles here advocated,
and long after the British nation felt itfelt
humbled and degraced, himfelf and ministers
direfted the ignominies war. When com
pelled tofolicit peace, he retained his enmity
to our nation and to our principles—Faith,
ful, however, to those in which he had been
educated, and fortified with ir.creafed power,
derived from the long exercise of regal in
fl ucnce, that of the whigs was Appended,
and a regular display of enmity to this
country and to liberty, exhibited. His
ministers, with forae short spasmodic cxcep.
tiors, were taken from those who either
themfclves supported, cr arc dtfeended from
those who did fapport with all their power,
the war against the United States. Even
before Britain joined the firft coalition, her
injustice to us was experienced ; a negoti
ator was sent to the court of St. James, who
forrendered at the feet qf the crown our dearth
s , ;C y; ,o
rights, but prevented not Britifo depreda
tions upon our commerce.
However congenial the principles of To
ryifm may be with those of kings and their
Satellites, they are at variance with all the
honorable feelings of the homan heart, and
in confluence always refilled ; this refin
ance is by tyrants called rebellion and never
forgiven—hence as long as the present king
lives, England will be our enemy. On tdc
death of Fox a miniltry was formed upon
what was called a broad bottomed principle,
that is made up of all kinds of parties—ln
this adminiftraticn there were fomc men,
from whom America- thought (he might re
ceive justice; bur, (let us assent to their
own plea, which however it may make a
gair.tl their honor, does not injure our
claims) they were compelled to surrender
their opinions to the crown, and their pie
deccffors having forced more than 3000 ci
tizens of America to fight in Bmtlh (hips,
the (fiends of this nation, even the lafl min
istry, relufed to infer* in the treaty an arti
cle, which fliould protest American com
merce and American seamen from future in
sults. The Britiih government fay that
raeo under their dominion, can never expa*,
triate themfelyes, that many natives of Eng
land arc in the commercial employ ol the
U. S'ates, anj that therefore they have a
right to examine our vessels and seize their
own fubjefts--.fuch affections are scarce
worth anfwerjng, and even >f conceded
(which God forbid they ever (hould be)
would not juftify the seizure of native born
citizens of the U. States—But it is a com.
mon opinion that Great Britain dare not
carry her inj'ultice and hatred into a war
with the U. States, that a nonimportation
aft is what (he dreads, and the fear of it
will coerce her into justice. Those who
think so know noth’ng of the hardiness of
the governing partv in England..-what fig
n:fics to them the (offerings of their country,
they expeft (0 efcspe unfrgtchtd- Accor,
dingly we fi d ti)em perfitling in their hof
tiiities. Wi'hont (lopping to police the
profligacyt f 3 Lcye, it has btpn avowed by
the new ir.iniftry, that as Bonaparte's edifls
prevent Amei jean vtffels from touching at
England in to ports under his
controul, tbcrefiJTCTftdywtir prevent "Ame
rican vcflcls going straight from hence to
such ports—a roifchievous ihjufticc, this
nor no other independent nation can or
ought to submit to... Hence as well as from
feme knowledge of thecharafters of the new
EngHfh ministry, the Editor of the Expofi.
tor prognosticates a repetition of injury to
the U. States, that they will not be deter.
ret 1 by our nonimportitfon aft from eroding
h Ru!)ic6n, which if those afts are fully
a : isd np to, will plunge in equal distress the
Merchants, Mechanics, and labourers, of
Britain, In the mean time let the citizens
of- the U. States prepire for the word Bri
tain can do, and rest iffured that ultimately
(he must submit to our just demands,
LONDON) May 12.
Arrived at Plymouth, the Veronia of
Newcastle, Henry P> fe master, from Mem.
el, which place (he left the 28th March,
for this port with timber ; wlun the mas
ter left Metnel there were nearly 20,000
Pruflian troops at that place and its neigh
borhood, which were not jible to join the
army for want of arms, jvhich were anxious
ly expefted from this coditry : arms of every
defeription were demanded from individuals
for the temporary fuppljiof the army. Am.
muniton was so fcarcc,j that the Britifo
(hips of war in the Baldc were obliged to
part with a great part oftheir stock for the
ufc of the combined armijs.
May 1 1 .
As we last night predicted, the new mini,
fters arc resolved to »akqno concclfions to
America. The Evening, Trumpeter, not
of their fame, but of their disgrace, warns
us that the age of conation is past. Os
this we arc aware,—What then is left us ?
When fools are too to concede—
too dull to be convinced—(they must then
be conftraincd.*— Stat:/man\
May i 6. \
Orders have been difpaUied by govern,
ment to the commiinaners of Ihe customs, to
be forwarded to all the out jorts, for lay,
ing an embargo upon all foils and veflels
belonging to the grand feigfior j and also
from the admiralty, ro the ommandera of
king’s (hips and privateers, o detain and
bring in all veflels, property, Sec. belong,
jog to the fubjefts of the Ottctaan Porte.
RICHMOND, }uly| 1,
According to public notice, a numerous
meeting of the Citizens of Richmond,
Mancheftcr and of their Vi laities, and
of many other persons fromdftant places,
was held at the Capitol in this city on
Saturday Evening 4 o'clock, for thepur
pofe of taking under their onfideration
, the late outrage committed on the Frigate
• Chesapeake, bv a Britifo f uadron j— (
Not less than fix, or feren hundred persons
were prefent* A more able or a more
patriotic alterably was never convened in
this city.
WE, the citizens now convened, have
read with horror and indignation the nar
rative of the attack made by the firitilh (hip
Leopard on the United States' frigate Chcf
epeake. The demand which preceded the
attack was lawless >n its nature and tUcft
insolent in its manner. The attack itfclf
was not only lawless and insolent, but base
and cowardly j because it was made by a
Ihip of fitty gum, prepared for aftion and
supported by a Britilh in a time
of profound peace, < n an unlofprfting and
therefore unpiepared friend, a fitiglc Ameri
can Frigate of fix rnd thirty guns ; such
arc the glorious triumphs of the Britilh na
vy { We (bferve that this attack 'flowed
from a deliberate order given by the firitilh
Admiral Bcikcly, at Halifax : We believe
that he would not have dared to compromit
his nation by so bold and flagrant a breach
ot national law without the previous sanc
tion and order of his government { We con
fider it therefore as an aft of the Britilh go
vernmtnt. We compare this monstrous out
rage (committed in the moment of treaty,)
with other afts of usurpation and aggreflion
praftited upon us by the fame ration—their
impreffments of our teamen folong continued#
and their gross and perpetual violations of
our commerce, which they have the effron
tery to advocate even from their tribunal#
of law : the review confirms us in the be
lief, that the attack cn the Chefapcalcc i*
not the aft either of Commodore Douglas or
Admiral any more than the aft o£
the oriental Have who licks the dull front
the foot of dclpotifm, is the <ft ol the (lave ,
and not of thedefpot : hut that this attack
is the aft of the Britilh government; and
Amply ano her tffufion of the fame spirit
w Inch produced their impreflments and com
mercial fpoliationst 1 his aft is of the fame
ft.imp and colour with the rest. We behold
n it alt, a confident pifture £ a nation info-'
tent in the confcimtfnefs of her ns*val Hrengdi
I—totally rcgardlels of the rights of other#
-—totally rcgardjtfa cf all reafon and
humanity—destitute of every motive, feel
ing and principle which binds civilized nav ’
fiom» together--and having no rule of aft ion
whatever, but fell-aggrandizement and the
gratification of her own caprices by brutal
force. We compare this bloody violence
with the cardies and attentions which they
are even now Ihcwing to our mtmffers at
tkeir feafts in London j and we behold a
nation, which, to the pifture of black and
savage piiacy, adds the features of smiling
treachery and mean hypocrisy I A nation
which by her aftions proclaims the opinion#
that we are not only so feeble as to be insul
ted and outraged with impunity, but so
weak and foolilh as to be amused forever
with the perfidious semblance of negotiation
for the red refs of our wrongs, while she
takes the (horter cut of blood and battle for
the attainment of her purpojes . With a na
tion of such prnciples and such p’aftices,
we wilh no friendlhip, no intercourse: to
such complicated and inctffant wrongs, con
tinually aggrevated in proportion to our
patience, we are disposed to submit no lon
ger. Wherefore {
i. Rtfol-vtd , That the thanks of lie citi
zens ot Richmond, he communicated to ouf
fellow.cit irens of Norfolk, fur the exem
plary pronuitude and energy which th«*y
have difplaycd cn this occasion j and that
they be iflbted that we unite with them,
heart and hand, in all their feelings awj
refactions.
%, R'/ol’ved, That while we deprecate
the horrors of war and approve all honorable
means of averting them, we peflefs the firm
hope that the government of the United
States will avenge this unpara Iclcd outrage
with the spirit which becomes the nation,
and which the nation feels—believeing as
we do, that, however unequal our naval
strength, our enemies have ncvenhelcfs,
vulnerable points within our reach, thro*
which we may be able to strike them vitally
3. Rejohed, That in the support of all
meafurcs direfted to that end, “ we pledge
our lives, oar fortunes and our Jacred hon»
off' hailing with firm and joyous hearts,
the auspicious omen connected with this well
remembered holy pledge : W4iat we did in
the wcaknefs of infancy, it will be strange
if we cannot repeat in the vigor of man
hood 1
4, Rr/olved, That a committee be ap
pointed to correspond with such other com
mittees as may be; appointed irt the fcveral
towns and counties in this common-wealth,
for the purpose of collecting the national
sentiment on this important occasion.
5-, Refolded, That the chairman vs thi#
committee be requefied to communicate 4
copy of these rcfolves to the President of the
United States, one to the Executive of each
date, one to the chairman of the committee
to Norfolk, and one, conncfted with a pritt
ted copy of the narrative of the outrage, to
every general officer and commandant of a
regiment in this date, to he communicated
by him in such manner as he may apgMTf p