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' Lank ol Augusta,
■»* 3id Mpjtsvr. - 1
AT agpucral nvetrng of trfeSio li
beller*, ou. Saturday the 34»tli
Jure, 1817, fti pursuance of pirblio
notice, ir was resolved, that the capi
tal stock should ho increased; and
thch&oardof Directors was authori
«ed accordingly to carry the said re-’
Aotytion into effect.
k&Notiee is therefore hereby given,
that on Saturday the firstof Novem
ber oe»t.at to o’cloi k A. m. at the
Bahk, will be put up for public! sale,
to the 1 highest bidders, 2500 Shares
of New Stock, of *OO Dollars each,
In portions not exceeding ten shaies.
'fhe increase, whatever it may he, ,
pyer |OO dollars per share, to be
, paijldown at the lime of sale, tins re-,
tnaining f€o dollars on the 32d No
Tcmhfcr next, which, being so paid,
Vdl entitle the proprietors of New
“ Stock to full dividends of profits to
he made by the Hank, from and im
mediately after the next dividend,
ich will be on (lie 17 th November,
18 17 r,
' Jsi}U of any of the Chartered Bank’s
ill Georgia and South Carolina will be
.taken inpayment.
* Hv oi’dcr
AUGUSTUS MOORE, Cabinet.
(E/’riic PriiUcis of the several Ni wspapeis
of tiiis S a e, are requested to inseit the a’oove
once a ihontlrto the Ist November.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The subscriber takes the liberty of
observing to his friends and the cii
zens of Richmond county, that some
malicious and evil disposed persons
bare thought proper to Mate Hiat Mr.
wait to act as my depu
ty and jailor in *ease I'succeeded to j
theliffieo of .sheriff at the ensuing 1
election.. -1
Knowing that Mr. Coombs has en- ;
emies that ate my intimate friends,
this representation has been made no
doubt with the. Ip<ehiion to injure my
election. 1 wili| further state to such
persons ag feel interested in this ar
rangement, (hat it was never conic in- !
'plated' by either of us. Jt has also
been rumoured about, that 1 did not
want tl.eiiftr o for myself, fin ease 1
should be He ted 1 cuK ulate on en
jfyitKgHJiv emoluments if the office.
If there shhnld be any; and trust (he
citizeoaof Richmond county will al
low me tlflS'SHme privilege that others
Imve enjoyed, of attaching to the of
fice a deputy, and jailor if there should
be any business to do. ]do not w ish
tlic ♦ ffjee upon any rtther terms than
«uch as m(j fair and honourable. The
repum to which I have alluded, ori
gink>cd withefeetioneeringcharaelcrs
ai d are as false as they arc base.
ANSELM BLGG.
July 26.
"WILL HE Sul D on the first Tuesday
in \4vgust nc3h, at ;he court heme in
Burke county, within
the muel sole hours '
200 AC 111 .b of land in Burke
CCuiUy, on Bu k head ert.k, acjoinng
' lands < f Mathew pain and L-.sUt’s I>-n<
on as the property of Petr 1..
G< u'<!ing, tu satisfy sundry executions in
fv rof George P yihttss and others,
against said Gi aiding. |
ALSO, • '
One b'ack hope, levied on as the
proftr y f RubtrW to satisfy uit
cx« cation in f« vrr of William Atta-
W y. against T+iQm .sSorbbee and Robert
1. ncs-*pr> perty jcinUtl put by the de
*air ; Aiso." !
Orfe moiety of one eleventh part
ttf a cf ijmu v containing 225 acits, f
a j tniug bods 1 1 David Robinson end
crocks— kVit d on as. the propt r y of Eli.
Z heth R»well, to »f ty*‘y an-xi cut ion in
■favor cf Clr-tn Rt harts against E Iz-bcth
R. well and Jac c Tipton— Levied on and
returned tome by aconitine.
ALSO.
20 Acres of kind, npore or less,
laviiid'op’as propniy fJhn A. Uo.
4) satisfy on tx< utb* Mi favor cl
Scnwtfcl A N t L# vs. John A. Ho
b ns,'the said land a j >iqing jam's cf
James PoUhill and Anms. Wiggins— ,
ptnpcrty pointed «ut y tht df hndant.
John Bell/ s b.c.
July 5• tds
. i * ‘f-
Marshal’s Sales.
On the first J uesduy in August next at the
Cuuit House in lih-ri court y t
ALLthehoustlioldand Kitchen
fiimtmre i.f Wiilj . m iVurvnAj v i c( i
on t« Sufi fjj an txt&utUm issued from
the ->i»th Circuh Cnflt %ot t ht United
io n f ’ vor ' 1 fJ > denhg, v
William Patu rson. cJfsh.
1 hoaias T., Triplett, i
SiA * Marshal. J
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W" v ¥ V, ■• " 7>SWri»t ’ .*
it 'rom OX Dhb in y Cbrmicle retteived
*. V at the (olumiytn ftffice
co wsi'LigiirnrLLifs \ -
•And the Quarterly Review.
■«HoV then, who are you—a man or
no body?—Certainly of the' lowest or
der of men; for slaves even are not
without a name., Vet these would be
accounted king’s men iu dcg» ee above
their fellows.”— Milton.
To the Editor f 'he Qiunter/y Rivieia,
SIR—An absence from Oub iu oh
professional business prevented my
seeing, until very lately, the Review
in which you have honoured with
such particular attention. This cir
cumstance alone has occasioned my
silence, because, though your criti
cism is beneath (he notice of either
a scholar or a gentleman, still, I
would not avoid a controversy with
one who is the best patronised, because
the worst principled among the re
tainers of corruption. It is by the
tolerated instrumentality of such mis
creants, that individual reputation is
sure to be harnessed to the hearse of
c.aiioual liberty. Your attack upon
me commences as Usual with a sar
casm upon my country-, in the Ithora)
distribution of which your Vinlttrhicn
cd cunteUei acy isuoW completely prac
tised. Ido not complain of the as
sociation—to have been b ;,rn in a
country so barbarously oppressed
may he a mlsfuHunt* to he identified
with her under every disadvantage,
shall he my pride, 'The degradation
of Irehu d is disgraceful only to those
w ho have occasioned it, and the name
of an Irishman, but dishonourable to
the wi’elch who could stoop to enn. h
himself on the ruin of his country
Plundered of every thing except ; ihat
genius wlt ich nature seems to ha m
, given as some compensation for her
| pol (i. ul injuries I endeavoured to hold
the most honeutable of its oppressors
up to public imitation in a pucin com
posed while 1 Was at live Temple. If
a production has not merits of its own,
it can find but a precarious refuge in
the partiality of its nuihot*. The Km
a aid hie , impel feet as il is, has,
however, gone through four editions,
during as many years, in England,
and a re print of it has been extensive
ly circulated iu America. I place
this fact against your solitary and
most impotent depreciation, Agairsl
the charge of the dedication (1 admit
it is a charge.) my defence is as Unan
swerable. It was inscribed to the
regent—not of 1817. but of 18 A—the
restricted regent—as I then inoughtr
the pupil of Box, the patron of Moore,
the triend of Sheridan—he had pro
mised mm h and owed much to Ire
land. My dedication was the result
rather of my country’s habitual af
fection towards him,po aftboiiam most
ardent and most practical when he
most wanted it, than of any personal
expectation to myself. I never was
such a tool us to indulgeiu any such
expectation and hope. 1 shall never
he such a slave as to acton it. 11,
indeed, I had the combined servility
and stupidity of my accuser, 1 might
perhaps have done so; but aa it was
i had no idea ofcreuiingan anomaly
at court, or of erecting myself into a
solitary instance of bis rojal high
ness’ literary innniJhence. Letters
having been denominated a Republic,
perhaps, in the instance of my Catho
lic countrymen, some scruple of con
science may have arrayed the coro
nation oath against their preferment,*
Equally untrue is ji that 1 recanted
at Liverpool vvhal 1 had recommended
in Dublin, or deserted the cause of
my country’s emancipation, because
I advised her to petition no more to a
parliament so constituted as the pre
sent, Sixteen years of petition had
only produced sixteen years of repulse,
and as every argument weakened,
every obstacle strengthened, until at
length we appeared as so many pride
less medicants, conning the humilia- |
tion of a predetermined refusal! t T n- 1
der these circumstances, with f)he i
most indent desire for the emancipa
tion of my countrymen, I did and do
advise a cessation from petitions un
til the parliament of England shall
be what the constitution of England
intended it should. Is it fit for any
thing but stocks and stones to petition
the representatives of “ Old Sarnm!”
Equally untrue is it that 1 ever libell
ed the objects of my previous pane
gyric; with all the diffidence which
became youtb, perhaps also with
much of its presumption, I ventured
on a particular point, to dissent from
Mr. Grattan; my dissent was most re
spectfully expressed, and it was echoed
by the almost unanimous vioce of the
IcEb people. Admiriag, as all must,
the ctiinmandit'g eloquence and splen
did services of bat great man, 1 still
ofiast be excused front advocating I
‘ * ( J,
those errors to wlbiohJK this ’condi
tion as Veil
us the humblest 4re sub
ject, AmicUs Plato, amicus Socrates#
=>ed maj'iii arnica veritas. political
consistency consists not, in
in a personal partisanship, but
support of a principle; in an adherence
to measures, not servility to men
—in the steady 'muintainance of those
truths which the heart and the judg
ment co-operate in approving. It is a
nice distinction* however in these
times—one not likely to be compre
hended by a slave or adopted by a sy
cophant. Rjit what, either of veraci
fy or principle, can he expected from
a writer who ha* had the hardihood
to assert, that those speeches whose
celebrity has so excited his venom,
wevc “never even heard of in the j>We
of their nativity Ml” A falsehood to
which he must have known in his
hcait, there was not a single edu< a
ted person arrived at the age of ma
turity in Ireland, who could not have
afforded a refutation. The fact is,
they had a circulation here quite un
precedented, and weer dispersed far
and wh'e in England withr ut the most
remote at operation on nit/ putt. Os
the four different gentlemen who *ev
erally published them in Loudon* I
app al to any one whether he made
any previous communication to me
upon ti»e subject, or whether I ever j
added note, comment or correction*.'
The faet is. so annoyed was I at the '
continual inislaiemenis to which sudi
a statement'subjected me, that I was
compelled to publish them in an au
(henlieafed form at (he press of Mr. !
Longman which'volume, announced
as it was, you declined waiting for,
but with the most malignant inten
lid.i chose to select for your slander
the unauthorised editions. Mow, sir,
1 I ask you in the face of the public up
on whom you sought to impose, was
this fair play? 1 ask you was there a
syllable tot truth in suggesting that 1
edited those speeches? Ia k you how
you dare, under the mask of litera
ture, to blend the professional libel
with the political falsehood? The
influence Os habit is a very inadmissi
ble apol )gy* Indeed it is scarcely
lair liir any rational man, (how niu' h
less fair for such a man as you!) to
exercise a final judgment upon any
advocate from the perusal of even an
apihenlicated report of a professional
e.lfort. It is quite impossib e that such
a report can convey to the mind of the
trader, (he thousand local and tem
porary circumstances, without a con
sideration of which he never can be
duly appreciated. The facts of these
oases, however, to which you have
adverted, are now notorious, and I can
have no objection to abide by (he de
termination of the public as to the
comparilive talent with which they
may have been developed. Be assur
ed, sir, it matters very little to me of
what “breed,” as you elegantly ex
press it, yopr advocates in England
arc—l have neither leisure nor skdl
to ascertain their and
should be very far from estimating,
by any such criterion, such men as an
Erskine, a Bonnily, or a Brougham.
As to the Irish bar, however, 1 shall
take (he liberty of saying, that it ri
ses quite as high above my praise as
your depreciation; and believe me, it
is estimating it most unfairly, if you
have judged it by any itinerant adven
turer in your service, whose avarice
may have prompted him to the expo
sure of his incapacity. The profes
sional part ot the quest ion I now leave,
and iollow you to (hat political en
quiry to which f am indebted for the
distinction of your enmity. It seems
lam ‘•inconsistent.” The charge
comes well from the coadjutor of
Mr. Southy and the protege of Mr.
Canning! My consistency was not
indeed learned at the same school,
nor dp 1 ask its panegyric from the
pen of tV at Tyler, nor will I solicit its
j purchase money from the paymasterof
jot Lisbon. In the same manner you
have accused me of impudence, be
cause 1 did not imbibe my modesty
from Mr. Secretary Crocker!!
It is not my fault, sir, that ever
since 1811, an illustrious personage
has been doomed to the infliction of
your newly coined encomium. It is
not my fault that we live in a “new
sera,” and that the principles, the
predilections, and the friendship of the
old shbuld vanish in a moment. Lit
tle did 1 imagine that my humble de
dication to that illustrious personage
would excite the consistent enmity of
The Quarterly Review! Forgive me
this once, and now kneeling upon the
grave of Fox, I solemnly promise ne
ver again similarly to offend.
But, sir, why should you accuse me
of tergiversation, because in common
with the entire British papulation I
was deceived by the promises of thfe
p ■■*• w
late ruinous and sangulharf eofftesf’ii
becausel was heat hen en&uglrto nut in. t
(rust in and foolishly imagi >
ed that the assertion of human free
dom & not the obtrusion of & family.up
on the peoplqwho had banished
was really their object! because k
could not believe (hat a mighty conti
nent had formedftuelf into an armed
catchpole association for the mere
capture of a single individual! because
I would not credit that, like (he ghost
of Banquo, (he grim and blbod-hes
mearejl spectre ot* legitimacy was to
rush into the festival of our triumph,
leading in kingly followers, &,
ing us from our stools,” You, sir,
no doubt, must be the most highly
graufted at the hearteheering cunsc.
queues of our achievement. It is indeed
quite exhilirating to see the king of
Naples at the chase, the king ofFranee
at confession, the king of Spain at bis
tambour frame, and the pope and the
Jesuits, and all the other worth)' legi
timates, basking beneath the torches
of the holy iuquision! The liberty of
Europe, io be sure, has perished;Lew
is will assure us she had 1 lie benefit of
clergy, and 1 hope some brother hero
lias preserved the blood of Ney, will,
which to inscribe “glory” Upon her
monument. I really, sir, must be ex
cused a participation io these philan
thropic extracts. I cannot see any
j Ihistg (o rejoice at in the result of 20
' years such calamity as the world ne
' ver witnessed—innumerable standing
armies—revived feudal insolence—
secret legal associations—heart em
biltciiog 'anniversaries, establish-
I meats ot the most Sanguinary and in
lunate character, holy offices and ho
ly alliances, ai d all (he putrid carcas
es of exploded oppression, dug up and
deified in their infection; these things
1 confess throw me into an alarm
frrtm which I am not at all relieved,
by beholding on (he shores of the con
tinent a IHclithl military monster,
after having gorged itself at the grave
of millions, measuring the distance of
(he ocean (hat divides us* Such is the
situation of affairs abroad. How are
they improved at home? Let your
country men answer that question
whenever their magistracy allow them
a license. n. -
I confess (here was a time when I )
did not think such things could be,
and I gave a loose to the joy so natu- 1
r a) to my credulity in proclamations
a?ul conventions—if I have been de
reived, surely not on me should the de- |
lioquency be visited. The charges you
have made as to the emperor of
France, are perfectly unfounded, I
always decried his principles, always
extolled his talents—to you, sir, who
admire the principles without the tal- j
cuts, I leave the panegvrie of any so- (
vereign you may select, I have now
gone as fully as my leisure will admit
into (be accusations which you have
made against me. You have had two
advantages—>ou are anonymous, and
your powers of defamation have been
perfected by liabit—in my defence, to |
those who know me, I refer wy cha- '
raetcr—to those who do not, I refer
to your*s» As to myself, I am per
fectly insensible to the calumnies of
either younemphvyers or yourself—if •,
1 was fool enough not to feel them ra
then as a pride than a reproach, cus
tom must long since have reconciled
me to their endurance—there is not
a rep ile of corruption by whom I
have not been assailed, from the worm
born but to De trampled upon, up to
the venemous associate that has coil
ed itself into a loathsome elevation
around the broken columns of a moul
dering constitution. To be so assail
ed is an happiness inferior only to the
consciousness of having deserved it. ,
Be assured, sir, the treasury itself
should not purchase that conscious
ness. U bile heaven spares me health,
1 am more indepe* dent than the plun
derer who pays you; and when it
takes it away, my memony shall be
such as to cause a blush but on the
cheek of my calumniators.
Chakles Phillips*
Dublin, May the l«f, 1817. v
c’ '
English School.
Mr. & Mrs. Coulter,
RESPECTFUL! Y tender thtir ser
vices to the citiz.ns of Augusta.—
They propose teaching the Art of Read.
ingdWriting, Aiithmetic, English Gram
ma/ and Geography Lik wise all kinds
of Needle Work, at their dwelling house
on Ellis street, three doors below Walter ]
Leigh’s.—For terms enquire as above. (
June 25. 1 wtf '
OJ* We are authorised 10 announce
Jason Watkins, a candidate for Re
ceiver of Tax Retuftis foe Richmond <
county at the ensuing election, <
CHRONICLkJ
August^TTsrr^J
The objeet ofilife
he. FUrtdu ba, b t e B a
living much uncertainly an J W
lation; and for want of corre.-,
aiaiiou the public mind h a » oot .J
able properly to estimate th e
of the enterprise. With others' !
have looked upon the expedition I
Sir Gregor as inseparably?™"' M
with the revolutionary strand.. ■
Spanish America; and, under nJ
impression, our most ardent H :. J
for his success have followed his rvIJ
ry movement. But recent \m\\M
genre, from a source we cannot doubtl
has dispelled onr flattering cxpe v tal
tions, and suspended those
of interest which different view!
had foreibly excited A gentle!
man of close observation has jus|
returned from Fernandina— HeviJ
ited that place, w 6 understand, wi;H
the sole intention of learning the rial
ture and character of the expedition!
and from what he sate and heard |J
hesitates not to consider it. a Piraffl
cal Enterprise, entirely designed liJ
Jh ivate aggrandizement—ami comp!
sed of abandoned outcasts, who, dim
tiuite of fortune and reputation, afl
securely stake their lives upon (H
hazard of the die. ,, Amelia, froJ
its favorable situation to the Havana
the most active seat of commerce il
the Spanish West-Indies, is to be thl
r allying point of those Hurbavrossiun
banditti; the receptacle flfijr their de
predat ions ; and the mart of a« tile
gal and destructive traffic. Thre
prizes have already arrived at Pei
nandina; two of them were slav
ships iadetied with 600 souls, the un
fortunate victims of civilized inhu
inanity. Attempts will no doubt I)
made to smuggle them into our state
—=*Thc possession and command o
Amelia is said to be all that is desir
ed—an attack upon Bt. Augustine i
not Governor ha
thrown his defiance in the teeth o
Sir Gregor.
If this view of the expedition b<
) correctly founded, it behoves our go
vernment seriously to look to it. li
j such cases whatever has a tendeo.;
• to excite suspicion will justify emjui
ry. We cannot be too scrupulous it
the maintenance of our national eha
I racter— in the preservation of a dig
nified policy. Like the great Ro
man’s wife we shouldnot only bevir
tuous, but rigidly observe every ap
pearance of being s 6.
1 _ . ■
{ It is reported that an important ne
gociation is about to be underlakeubj
our government, and that the (tea
Csesar A Rodney, John Graham ant
Walter Jones, esqrs. have beennam
ed by the president for Its exei ulioa
j It is conjectured that their uiissim
will be to some, part of tbe Spanish a
lonies. This is given as the nuinoroi
thp day. —Washington City Gaxctk
Tbe paragraph we a few days ainte
i published from the Rh-bmorid Co#*
piler, stating the offer of redemption
by colonel Burr, of property held by
Mr, John J. Astor, and the con. sc
queot purchase of the same by the
latter for S IqO.OOO, has been contra
dicted in all its parts, by Mr Astor*
who mentions that “thereis nota word
of truth in the whole story* from be
ginning to end,”
INTERESTING.
General Meriwether, who was one
of the commissioners on the part of
the United States, observes in a letter
of (he 17 th instant, to the executive of
Georgia, that he has just relumed
from holding a treaty with the Cher
okee Indians at the agency on High
wassee, for the purpose of effecting at}
exchange of territory on the Arkansas
river, where a part of the nation aro
now settled, for an equal quantity of
the laud claimed by them oo theeast
of the Mississippi.
Th 6 Ist article of the treaty cedes
to the United States all the land
to the north and east of a line begin*
ning at the High Shoals of the App»*
lachee river (in this state) and run*
ning thence along the boundary
between the Creeks and Cherokee*
westwardly to the Chatabochic river
—thence up the said river to the
mouth of Tonquee creek— thence ecu*
tinning with the general course of the
until It reaches the Indian boun
dary line; but should it strike the
Terrurar river, .which empties ado
the Tugeloe, thence down the said ri
ver to its month.
, The 2d article cedes a small t
of country on the north of Tenues*#''
called Sea u achee v alley.