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ndilitional naval force is \ reputing
“ n 3 I'adtT all these circumstan
r*° r - S tth similar feelings .ami views
a'fi „ „ ar t of the two nations, an al
j e
L'nited States is not an improbable
event-
Tt u said that two decrees have been
i „nn bv order ot the king ot
S, .evoking the celebrated Port
M ' arv Decree, declaring his mten-
L Ml lit a general amnesty, with
*,(ill to glam. <* J , |
. .in exceptions, and acknowledge
a> ‘ t| ie whole of the debt contracted
ip Bto 8 to the period of the departure of
“tie Foreign ministers troui Madrid.
-she following account which is gi
ven as authentic, is calculated to .
(ite the most serious reflections ot hor
-1 It is stated in accounts Irom
lluadalaxana, that a colonel of the
corps of the Kmancipado, having been
broUtin a prisoner, it was with diffi
cult v he reached the prison ; the peo
[e w ith loud cries, demanded that
heGovernor should deliver him up to
iheir vengeance, if he would not sac
r;(ice himself. He had the cruel
weakness to have the gates ot the pri
son opened : the people seized the
Colonel, dragged him through the
gt reets with a rope about his neck ;
led him out of the city, put out his
eves, cut off his nose and ears, and
hist of all his head.
Sir It. Wilson ami Gen. Lallemand
have proceeded to England.
FitOM HAVANA.
A French frigate arrived ofFthe port
on the 9th Dec. with instructions for
re-establishing the Royal Government.
On the 10th she entered, firing a sa
lute, which was answered by the ship
ping and forts. On the same day the
K/inir was proclaimed in the Cathe
dral, in the presence of the Governor
and all the principal officers of Hava
na, who were escorted by a part of the
Catalonia, Taragona, and Malaga re
giments of foot. Salutes were repeat
ed from all the forts, the town illumi
nated, &c. The old regulations went
into immediate operation. No smiles
were seen from the friends ot the Con
stitution. A double guard was placed
in the city, and all the taverns and
coffee-houses were ordered to be clos
ed at five o’clock.
Ratting —We are told that Dom
itian used to amuse himself by killing
fleas with a bodkin, and one of the
Bourbon family passed his idle
hours in shooting passengers in the
street from the top of his palace.
Very innocent past-time truly, and
roval sport compared to a disgust
ing species of amusement, which is
dailv gaining ground in the sporting
circles of England. We observe i t
stated in a Liverpool paper that a
young gentleman named Wedgsbu
ry under twelve years of age, son
to the notorious clog fancier “ Old
Sum Wedgsbury” has undertaken
to kill thirty rats with his teeth in
eight minutes, and his papa and
friends are ready to back this child
of promise against any 241 b. dog in
the kingdom—an interesting, re
fined and national exhibition.
More Piracy. —The schr. Betsy,
Dennis, arrived at Georgetown, South
Carolina, on the 6th inst. from St.
Thomas ami Turks Island. The edi
tors of the Winvaw Intelligencer have
furnished us the following extract
from her logbook:—“ The lTth Nov.
two hours out from St. Thomas, the
Betsy was attacked by a small boat
manned with six negroes and a mul
latto. When within pistol shot, seve- #
ral muskets were discharged at us,and
kept up briskly for an hour. We were
before the wind ; bnt by their rowing
>nd sailing they kept even pace,pour
ing their balls into the cabin windows
and rigging, demanding our surrender,
threatening at the same time tc kill
every soul on board. We received
ten ball# in the main sail, and several
in the foresail. The first shot came
through the cabin window, passed be
tween the captain’s legs, and lodged in
the bulk head. The crew managed to
barricade the helmsman to ward off
the bullets, then turned their attention
G getting out ballast stones, in order
to sink the boat should they gain the
V’ssel, as there was not ugun on bo ird.
ortunately the wind sprung up at
Jnght, and we lost sight of her.”
New York, Dec. 15.
A number of Citizens wishing to
manifest their sympathy and respect
<>i the Deputies of the late Spanish
“ites, who have reached this city, in
miated to them a desire that they
••ould accept ot a public dinner; u
to, npliinei,t which,under existing ctr
®Umstances, they felt compelled to
> u ine—-not, however without nc
n<n\ I edging their deep sense of the
“°! ‘'‘tended them, and the feelings
‘ vl “ch had prompted it.
sot A
W EDiVKSDAY, JAN. 14.
Wr learn says the New-York Mercantile,
Advertiser thnt British Oovernment has
actually made a formal tender of her services,
and solemnly pledged all the aid in her power
to such measures as our liovernment mav adopt
in resistance to the Allied Powers of the Con
tinent of Europe against the rightsoftke South
\inerican States.
OHIO.—The Legislature of this State is now
in session. It is a mntter of astonishment, that
the State containing 600,000 freemen, should
only have one Native in its Legislature. The
following summary is made from a list of the
members of that body, w ith the places of birth
attached :
In Pennsylvania 27, Virginia 16,
New Jersey 14, Connecticut 10,
New-York 6, Maryland 6, Massa
chusetts 5, Rhode-Island 2, Ver
mont 2, SouthrCarolina 2, New-
Hampshire 2, North-C.arolina 1,
Kentucky 1, Ireland 5, and Ohio 1,
Proposals have been issued by Messrs. Flea
snnts k Butler, for anew paper, to be publish
ed at Richmond, Va. under ihe name of, “ The
Constitutional Whig.” It proposes to support
the p-etensions of Mr. Adams to the Presidency
of the United States.
A Curiosity !—The following is the
direction of a letter lately left in a
neighbouring Post Office.
To William Wall Living in Tatling County
Near the Dead River Meeting House in
Georgia State These jgf
To Forward the Same to the Hand ofa Woman
Who was Once Calle • Clary Foy A Daughter
of Bathsheba Jones Midwife.
The Greeks. —The methodist and
other Religious denominations in New
York announce, that collections will
be taken up in their respective church
es, for the benefit of the heroic but op
pressed Greeks.
We perceive, by certain proceed
ings published in the newspapers, that
“a national Convention of the Manu
facturers of the United States/’ is to
be held at the City of New-York, on
Wednesday, the 14th day of January
next. The object is “to devise means
for the relief of the manufacturing in
terest of the Ui.ited States from its
present depression.”— Nat. Int.
AN ACT.
To establish an Office for recording
Births of the citizens of this State
in each County of the said State.
Whereas, much inconeenience
has been experienced in this state
from the difficulty of obtaining tes
timony of the ages of persons inte
rested in questions of rights before
our courts: And whereas, embar
rassing difficulties frequently im
pede the correct administration of
justice on this subject; For remedy
whereof,
Be it enacted &Y. That from and
immediately after the passage of
this act, it shall be made the duty
of the clerks of the Courts of Or
dinary in each county respectively,
to enter and register in a book to be
kept for that purpose, the names of
all persons who may report them
selves to him, or who may be re
ported by their parents or guardi
ans, as well as all those who may
be hereafter born within the sarid
county, and who may be reported
as aforesaid, upon due proof being
made by affidavit or oath to the said
clerk of said birth , and that the
said clerk shall be entitled to take
and receive for each registry which
he shall be called on to make, the
sum of twenty-five cents.
Sec. 2. That the parents or guar
dians of children now in life, or
who may be hereafter born, may
upon application to the clerk of the
Court ol ordinary aforesaid, and
upon payment of the aforesaid sum
to the said clerk, require him to
enter the name of the said child,
with the time and place ot his or
her birth.
Sec. 3. That the said clerk shall
forfeit and pay the sum ot five dol
lars for each and every refusal to
enter the said births as aforesaid
upon such application as aforesaid
being made.
Sec. 4. That the said entry so as
aforesaid made shall be received
and held as evidence of the birth
and age of such persons as its pur
ports to represent in any court ol
law or equity in this state, by the
production either of the original
hook of entry or ol the certificate
of the same under the hand and seal
of the said clerk ; and for which
certificate the said clerk shall re
ceive twenty-five cents.
Approved Dec. 19, 18:23.
G. M. TROUP, Governor,
MR JEFFERSON TO MR. ADAMS.
We are proud of being able to present to our
readers the following copy ofa letter from Mr.
Jefferson to Mr. Adams, so truly characteris
tic ot that venerable patriot and philanthropist.
It is copied from the Boston Patriot.
Nat. Intel.
Monticello, Oct. 12,1823.
Dear Sir : I do not write with
the ease which your letter of Sept.
18, supposes. Crippled wrists and
fingers make writing slow and labo
rious ; but, while writing to you, I
lose the sense of these things, in the
recollection of ancient times, when
youth and health made happiness
out of every thing. 1 forgot for a
while the hoary winter of age,
when we can think of nothing but
how to keep ourselves warm, and
how to get rid of our heavy hours
until the friendly hand of death
shall rid us of all at once. Against
this tedium vitae, however, I am
fortunately mounted on a hobby,
which indeed I should have better
managed some 30 or 40 years ago,
but whose easy saddle is still suffi
cient to give exercise and amuse
ment to an Octogenerv rider. This
is the establishment of an Univer
sity, on a scale more comprehen
sive, and in a country more heal
thy and central, than our old Will
iam and Mary, which these obsta
cles have long kept in a state of
langor and inefficiency. But the
tardiness with which such works
proceed, mav render it doubtful,
whether I shall live to see it go into
action.
Putting aside these things, how
ever, for the present, I write this
letter, as due to a friendship, coe
val with our government, and now
attempted to be poisoned, when too
late in life to be replaced by new
affections. I had for some time
observed, in the public papers,
dark hints and mysterious inuendos
of a correspondence f yours with
a friend ; to whom you had opened
your bosom without reserve, and
which was to be made public by
that friend or his representative ;
and now it is said to be actually
published. It has not yet reached
us, but extracts have been given,
and such as seemed most likely to
draw a curtain of seperation be
tween you and mvself. Were there
no other motive than that of in
dignation against the author of this
outrage on private confidence;
whose shaft seems to have been
aimed at yourself, more particular
ly ; this would make it the duty
of every honorable mind to disap
point that aim, by opposing to its
impression a seven-fold shield of
apathy and insensibility. With me,
however, no such armor is needed.
The circumstances of the times, in
which we have happened to live,
and the partiality of our friends at
a particular period, placed us in a
state of apparent opposition, which
some might suppose to be personal
also: and there might not be wan
ting those who wished to make it
so, by filling our ears with malig
nant falshoods ; by dressing up hi
deous phantoms of their own cre
ation, presenting them to you under
my name, to me under your’s, and
endeavoring to instil into our minds,
things concerning each other, the
most destitute of truth. And, if
there had been at any time a mo
ment when we were off our guard,
and in a temper to let the whispers
of these people make us forget what
we had know nos each other lor so
many years —and years of much
t r ial—yet all men who have atten
ded to the workings of this human
mind, who have seen the false co
lors under which passion sometimes
dresses the actions and motives of
others, have seen also these pas
sions subsiding with time and re
flection, dissipating like mists be
fore the rising sun, and restoring
to us the sight of all things in their
true shape and colors. It would be
strange, indeed, if, at our years, we
were to go an age back, to hunt up
imaginary or forgotten facts, to dis
turb the repose of affections, so
sweetning to the evening of our
lives.
Be assured, my dear sir, that I
am incapable of receiving the slight
est impression, from the effort now
made to plant thorns on the pil
low of age, worth, and wisdom,
and to sow tares between ftiends
who have been such for near half
a century. Beseeching you then
not to suffer your mind to be disqui
eted by this wicked attempt to pois
on its peace, and praying you to
throw it by among the things which
have never happened, I add sin
cere assurances of my unabated and
constant attachment friendship, and
respect. Th. Jefferson.
John Jhlams, Former President )
oftha United States. $
Tbe following observations are Elicited
from the United States Gazette, by the recent
intelligence from Spain:
“Riego has been murdered—it
matters not in point of fact, wheth
er the crime was committed upon
lim with poison or with hemp, in
prison or in a public square. He
was murdered—neither law nor
cquitv could sanction the condem
nation of a man for treason against
a sovereign, whose commission he
bore, and whose orders he execu
ted. The King ever acknowledged
the Constitution and swore to obey
it—yet is Riego publicly executed
as a traitor for attempting to defend
it.”
The Editor adds, with much point, that the
world will not be astonished at any act of a
Sovereign, who can in the history of his reign,
point to two congratulations to foreigners for
a conquest ofhis native kingdom.
Washington, Dec. 19.
The Colombian Minister* have din
ed with the President. Their appear
ance presented, it is said, a striking
contrast to that of other Foreign Min
isters, who were, of course, invited at
the same time. The representatives
of the new republic, with their suite,
were all in plain suits of black, while
the others were in their state dress,
covered with the insignia of their re
spcctive orders of nobility. We un
derstand, that the impression made
was a favorable one.
Capt. Seilnllo. —We learn by a let
ter from an officer in the Colombian
Navy to his friend in this city, that
the Colombian government has given
orders to capture and send in the schr.
Bella Isabella, capt. Sedallo with her
officers and crew, whenever she could
be found. This vessel, it will be re
collected, was refitted in this port
within the year past, and sailed with
the declared intention of proceeding
to Mobile and from thence toMargari
ta. At Mobile, however, captain S.
procured some arms, &c. and cruised
ior some time on the Florida coast,
and after committing several acts ofa
piratical character, proceeded to the
YV est Indies, and at the last accounts,
was at or near St. Bartholomews, dis
posing of tne goods he took from the
schr. ./uttius, of Baltimore.
Savannah Repub.
m+wm
Millenium. — A fanatic preacher
in the State of New-York declares
the Millenium to be near at hand ,
that in seven years there will not
be a sinner upon earth; before
which time, however, two thirds of
the inhabitants of the earth will be
destroyed by famine,pestilence,and
wars.
Two notorious scolding women
had a set-to in England lately ,
force of lungs alone decided the
victory in favor of one of them.—
The defeated Xantippe, from great
prostration of strength, died the
next day.
■■■■
Customs in Egypt. —The Turks
allow that their Emperor may kill
every fourteen ofhis subjects with
impunity and without impeachment
of tvranny, because say they, he
does many things by divine im
pulse, the reason of which it is not
permitted to them to know. I have
been told that a pacha of three tails
is authorized to cut off five heads a
[ day, a pacha of two tails three, and
i a pacha of one tail one.
If a butcher sell bad meat, he is
nailed by the ear to his own door
post from sunrise to sunset: I re
member seeing a Greek butcher
nailed thus, and the fellow had the
impudence to say to me— ‘ You
see me tormented as our Saviour
was.’
The Turks lately punished a pi
rate by flaying him alive : they be
gan at the head and when they
came to the breast, the man died
with agony. Turner's Travels.
CAimOK.
f I IHE pnblic are hereby cautioned
l against trading for a Note giv
en by the subscriber to Stephen D.
Stricklin, for the sum of I4y dollars,
date not recollected, but betisved to
be in March 1822: the same having a
condition, that if titles ade by said
Stricklin to lot No. 40, 10th district
Monroe, should not be valid, the said
note should not be collectable. The
title having failed, the note will not be
paid. I would also caution the public
against trading with the above Strick
lin, as he has fully proved himself to
be a notorious swindler.
JEHU CAMPBELL.
Tuifss County, Jan. 14,1821 3w13
List of letters
Remaining in the post-office
at Macon, on the Ist January,
1824.
James W. Alston
Thogsas Boyce, Reuben Braswell
M. W. Crawford, Win. Cane
Dr. R. Durrett, Ichabod Davis,Geo-
Dane, John Douglass, Daulphin Davis
James S. Frierson
James Holt, sen. Enoch Hancock
Edmond Herron
William Johnson, Oliver Jeter,
Win. Jackson
Jacob Little
Robert McCombs Jas. B. Mulford
Dread7.il Pace Mrs. Mary Powell,
Win. Pickard, Mrs. Charity Philips
W m. Robinson
Wni. Sanders, Sheriff of Houston
county.
43] M. R. WALLIS, r. m.
List of Letters
Remaining in die Post office,
, at Louisville, on the Ist January,
1824—and it not taken out before the
Ist April next, will be sent to the
General Post Office as dead letters.
Hugh Alexander, Alex. Atkison,
Charles W. Anderson, James Atwell
W m. Buzbay, Messrs Hugh Brown
& Cos. 2. Moses Bi inson sen. Capt.
John Boutin, Maj. Robert Bowling,
Win. Bower 2, Nehemiah Bunting,
James Baity, Joel Baldwin 2, Joseph
Brian
Col. John Cobb 2, Donaldson Coley
Thomas Connel, John Crooned
Rev. Tho. Darley, James Darley, B.
Daniell, Henry Dervey, John Donald
son, John Darsey, James J. Davis,
Jesse H. Davis, Andrew Dillon 2,
Peter P. Dubose, Henry Durden
Rev. .losiali Evans
John Fleming, Allen Fleming,
Baldwin Hooker, Robert Fountain,
Owen Fountain, Billy Flagg sen. Mrs.
Catherine Fitzgerald
Jesse I). Green, Richard Green Ro
bert Gobert, W illiain Gihnore, John
Glisson, Morris Graham
Simon Hutchins, Hardwick & New
ton, William Hannah, Sylvester
Hartshorn, Mrs Martha Henson
James Johns, Avan Jordan, Joseph
Jackson, Allen Jones, Simon Janes
Stephen Kelley
Aaron Lowe, esq. David Lanier,
John P. Lyons
Thomas Mountain 2, James Me
Conckey, Littleberry Mason, Tho's
Matthews 2, Josiah Moore, James
Martin John McGruder, Alexander
McDonald, John Mobley 2, Stephen
Murrey, Jordan S. S. Murray, Ster
ling Montcrief, Jehn McCorquodale
John Neal, John Neel, Ephraim
Knoles
S. Perry .Redden Pate. John Pierce
Richard Peal, Robert I. Patterson,
Win. Patterson, Mrs. Mary Patter
son 2
B. Raiford, Wilson Rix, Jonathan
Ross 3, Jonathan Roberson, Beuj. Ja
bez Ryan 2
Jesse Slatter esq. Joshua Shepard,
Benjamin Sherrod, James Stone 2 t
Abram Sauls, Col. Littleton Spivey,
Gardener Shepard, Jacob Sutton,
James Smith, James Spetigue, Wm.
Scarborough, Mrs Lany Span
Wm. I'oinlinson, Samuel B. Tarver
esq. R. Turner, Isaac Thomas, Ulys
ses Tarvin, Stephen Thomas, James
Trimble.
Elisha White, John Way, William
Walker, Hughy Wilkerson, Peleg
Williams 3, Jefferson B. Wells, Joseph
Willis, Matthew M. Woods, John
Woods.
43] John Bostwick, P. M.
List of Letters,
Remaining in the Post Office, Fort
Hawkins, Jan. 1, 1824.
William Brown, Henrv Bailey,
John Burnett, James Bryan, Dru
ry Bass, Rowell Bass
Robert L. Church 4, James
Curley, David Culbertson or Eli
jah Haralson, Elisha Colton.
Drswrv Duke, sen. J. W. L.
Daniel, Wm. Dunn, John Daniel.
Henry R. Foy
Samuel Cranberry.
Francis Hamil, James H. Har
daway, Col- Wade Hampton, Wil
liam H. Hughs 2, Jas. Herring,
James Holmes, Thomas Haws.
Lieut. JoelJ. Johnston, William
Jovce, John Jepson, Elijah Jones.
Allen Lawhorn, Esq.
Thomas King, Thomas Kent,
Daniel Kimberly.
Win. L. IMjißee2, John McMur
rin, Dr. Robert Mathews, John
Miller, Josiah Moody.
Harris Nicholson.
Mr. Posey, Robert Pearmou,
James Puckett, sen. esq.
John Rowe, Blake Robinson,
James Rowell.
Jeffery’ E. Thompson, John Ty
ler.
Capt. Perry Wimberlr, Thomas
Williams, T. W. Watley.
William Young.
Charles Bullock, p. m.
January 1, 1824, 42