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j tltiUiocswpyj £tiibUxi\xy> .11111*0 or.jTt.yy and despotic power, they sure!;/ who revile ihc former, must either hold the tenets of soxie or other of the latter ; or, as is not unlikely, be ‘unknown to themselves, railing at their own creed. Ignorance has adopted, and ilia folly of custom has kept up, perversions ol a lean ing to a variety of words ; of which, I suspect, this same democracy is one. To do the Edi tor of the United States’ Gazette the justice to suppose that he is no aristocrat, or a favorer of any other system of government than that of his own country, I am driven to the diltmma of concluding, that he has fallen into tj)e sad delusion of not knowing the principles!which he is bound to maintain. But when lam so, this does not strike the reader with greater wench r than to observe, that while he .depre cates his cotemporary, and what he callj> demo cratic, writets, for their “ drnunciatiommgainst colonel Burr,” he himself denounces him, and calls him “ a disorganising democrat.” The ■verv crime for which he presently stands ac cused. How democrats should denounce democrats, or how a man, while he condemns an offence, should be guilty of it, must be all left for him who states so, to explain. Our courts, however, (1 believe 1 am correct to say) cannot lav that heavy hand which he wishes upon, this growing licentiousness. No autho rity inferior to that of the legislature can re medy the evil ; and when that remedy comes, let no man say, “ I’m spotless.” This much for the Gazette ; as to the Port Foiio writer, I should have left him in peace, to puff and cry up the wonderfully immacu late coiiduct, rectitude, and forbearance of his federal friends ; and, but for one thing, have only said, that 1 sincerely wish that he himself had, in fthese qualities, shone equal to what he has represented them. When a man talks of himself, or vainly boasts of his acquaintance, it onlv shows his own littleness, and gives is occasion for an ejaculation of pity, or a smile <ff contempt ; but when he raises himself n the expence of others, and bedaubs and vilifies his neighbour’s character, in order that the ore he has set up and assumed for himself may look the better on a comparison, it excites h one’s mind a feeling of quite a different nature. Let any dispassionate man read the romantic rant against democracy, contained in the pro duction in question, where he will find “ tor rents roar,” people “ reckless of desolation,” “ jacobinic cannibals,” “ democratic blood hounds,” “ scullion crews,” and “ dtemoniac rabbles,” in the utmost profusion, and he will feel something even beyond disgust. The i principal point, however, to which I mean to • direct my attention, is, to a refutation of his tloody doctrine of retaliation for personal af fronts. Were this doctrine to gain ground in the minds of the people, and be held up to them as “ consistent with he strictest legal principles to what a pass must society, in a hort time, be reduced ! Almost every body possessed cf the least degree of humanity dc-* precates the barbarous practice of duelling ; but this custom is nothing, compared to that which is here advocated. When a man, from the violence of passion, either on account of an injury done to himself, or to those whom he conceives himself, from the tics of nature, bound to protect, should feci so irritated as to be induced, either with his fist or his cane, to give the instrument or perpetrator of this inju ry a blow, which is beyond the circuit of earth ly chances to do him any material injury ; can it be contended, with the least degree of com mon humanity or justice, that that person is entitled to draw coolly from his pocket a pistol, and butcher him on the spot ? Do the laws of the country sanction it; or do the general sen-j titnents of the people countenance it ? Were eiU- „r the case, this certainly would be a land which would be avoided and fled, as containing institutions and customs worse than the terri tories of the crudest despot, or that of the most savage Indian tribe. The servant whej might conceive a hatred to his master, or one man who might bear an ill-will to his neigh bour, and wished to deprive him of his hie, would have nothing more to do, then, by’ well timed insolence, betray him into such an inad vertency, and then plunge his dagger to his heart, not only with safety but applause. It is not to be said in answer to this, that there is a difference between a gentleman , and one who has not the good fortune to be of that sta tion ; or that some people’s persons and cha racters are dearer to them than that of others ; for just laws know of no distinction of persons. The poor, as well as the rich, come equally under their protection. The laws of Britain, winch, so far as not altered by the institutes of this country, arc, I believe, also here held to be binding, have for every offence provided a pu nishment ; and it is there a fundamental max im, that no man is entitled to punish his neigh bour at his own hand. If he receives an inju ry, let him apply to the law, and he will re ceive that redress which is adequate to it. The unfortunate young man who fell a sacri fice to tha f resentment which was harboured against his parent, no doubt committed a breach of the laws in making the attack he did, and was punishable lor it as for an assault and batte ry’ ; but the utmost extent of that punishment would have, been a fine, and perhaps imprison ment. Instead of that, however, he suffered the punishment of death. A man’s having committed a crime towards me, is no excuse for my committing a crime towards him ; for there is no such thing as compensation admit ted in breaches of the law. lam equally guil ty, in such a case, for what I do to him, as if he bad acted fairly towards me lor instance, should I break into my neighbors houst and £‘e .! his effects, would i* be an exculpation of my ftfiei't r, in the eye oflaw. to plead that he fc'*d jv ’ > ; T robbed 1 Ccnaiuiy no’. “VYc v/culd both have transgressed the Tims of ; our country, and would mutually suffer punish ment for our guilts. Should two men fall ip to a scuffle, and one of them, being worsted, seize upon a knife, or a hatchet, and butcher his opponent, uould he rot be equally guilty of murder as if no such scuffle had taken place, or lie had never been struck by his adversary ? Were it necessary, I could cite a whole cata logue of men, who, for such a death, by the laws of their country, have made their exit on a gibbet. There are, no doubt, however, some cases where a man is by law cxcuseable in putting his follow’ creature to death ; but it is only in such as where the culprit would inevi-* tably suffer that punishment, were he then to escape it—as in the case of a high way robbery, or in the case of self-defence, where one is certain oi death from his adversary, should he prevail; as being assailed by fire-arms, a sword, axe, or other such instrument of death—but never in the case ol a caning-mdtch can a man be justified for such a deed. ‘1 o observe how much the Port-Folio writer here labours to make the switch of Mr. Austin appear a formidable and death-doing instill ment, is not a little curious. To answer his purposes, he gives it a more fickle nature than that even aset ibed to Aaron’s rod, or the change able camclcon. At one time, it is a did— “ he was stimulated with brandy, and armed with a club.” Then, it is a bludgeci —“ he ran upon him with an uplifted bludgeon.” But, at last, it assumes its natural shape, andbecomcs a moderate cane, selected that morning for the ! purpose of chastising Mr. S. for posting his j aged father as a coward and a scoundrel. These misrepresentations mark but too strongly the spirit with which the piece is penned ; but much more so is this spirit evinced, in the cru el and unmanly attack made upon the feelings of a father, already too much tortured by the untimely death of his son ; for he is, in the end, roundly impeached w ith his murder, and declared to have his blood upon his head. I shall offer no farther observations at pre sent, Messrs. Editors, on this extraordinary production ; but, should you give this an ear ly place in your paper, you may, at another time, hear from, Your’s, A STRANGER. Savannah , May 30, 1807. TO FYRRHA. HORACE, BOOK r, ODE V,* IMITATED. “ QUIS MULTA GRACILIS.*’ What eflenc’d youth, on bed of blulhing roses, Diffoives away within thy snowy arms; Or with fnft languor on thy bread reposes, Deeply enamour’d of thy ’witching charms. For whom do now, with wantonness and care, Thy golden locks in graceful ringlets wave ? What swain now listens to thy vows of air? For whom doth now thy fragrant bofora heave ? Alas! how often (hall he curse the hour, Who, all-confiding in thy winning wiles, With sudden darkness finds the Heavens low’r, And feels too late the treach’ry of thy fmile3. Wretched are they, who, by thy beauty won, Believe thee not less amiable than kind. No more deluded, I thy charms disown, And give thy vows, indignant, to the wind. * “ Every word of this ode,” fays Scaliger, “ is nedlar.” THE COMET. Perhaps it was owing to the obfeui ity of the clcndy weather, that the path of the comet was iod lad week ; but in Delaware date on Friday lad, it. was did.nctly ’ difeerned without glasses, palling through the confteila tion Taurus; its neucltus displayed a yellowilh cover of the whole body, and a curvillenear obfufeation on the lower limb refembhng the written capital letter R ...its apparent direction was south, though several of the bed adronomers are of an opinion, that its tendency is towards the sea ; the difficulty attending the regular purluit of the track of this comet, is that itscourfeisnot like other comets,in the apparently right line, nor ever, in an elongated curve; but, contrary to all the laws of gravity, in a zig-zag course, progrelfing and retrograd ing in oblique lines, like the dream of the electric iluid.—Aurora, The quantity of Britiih goods imported in the Unit ed States for a few months pad exceeds all former ex ample. Various causes are aferibed for this occurrence ; hut there are two very obvious...that the decree of ; blockade in Europe has had its effects there, & render ed it necessary to find a market somewhere. Another ‘ cause is, that many people who pofl’efs liith sagacity as is attributed to rats, are quitting the ship before it finks.—lbid. On Friday evening lad, the plantations in the neigh- \ hourhood of this place, were considerably injured by a 1 hail dorm. Its ravages were chiefly confined to the waters of Crabtree...Some of the hail fiones next day : measured nine inches in circumference: It not only ; beat the growing corn into the ground, hut knock ed off molt of the fruit from the trees, and in fome places the ground is covered with the verdure of the pines and other growth, which it has left entirely naked...fhatter ed the glass windows of several houles...killed iambs, pigs, poultry and birds...crippled several grown cattle, and done conliderablc other damage. The next morn ing was remarkably warm, which is Angular immedi ately after a hail dorm Raleigh Minerva, May 21. “ Some difference lately occurred between a corps oi Irisii volunteers and their comman dant. The regiment was ordered to appear before the inspecting general, and the colonel, of course, gave the word of command, “at ten- ■ tion ! shoulder arms.” Not a muscle or a musket moved. The command was repeated in a louder voice—the corps was still motion le.s - The general much surprised, beckoned to a serjeant, and asked why the corps refus ed to act:—“An’ / daise your honour,” says Pat, making due obedience, it is bekays the colonel and regiment are not on spakirtg terras I' 1 1 Marxw ‘.arts-g-a--y <-*> .—. , „,, MI _ , Savannah, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1807. Aew-lork papers to the Itith of May, and Charleston papers of yesterday morning, have been received by the ship Louisiana, Peior, and sloops Republican, Brown, and Delight, Coop dr. Ihe ( harleston packets had but ten hours passage—Capt. l’elor had 16 days. Colonel burr’s trial. On tlic 22d inst. the federal Court for the i district of \ irginia was opened in Richmond, ■ for the trial of colonel Bi rr. Little else was : done than impannelling the grand jury, and ‘ hearing the objections of colonel Burr and his • counsel to the irregularity in summoning the J jury, and Ins reasons for challenging W. 11. j Giles and colonel Nicholas. (. hies justice, j Marshall presides. The following gentlemen were sworn on the ■ grand jury : John Randolph, foreman ; Jos. Eggleston, Littleton W. Tazewell, Robert Taylor, Wm.: Daniel, jr. John Mercer, Edward Pcgram, \ MUniford Beverly, John Ambler, Thomas Harrison, Jos. C. Cabell, Jan.es Pleasants, jun. J. Brockcnbfough, Alexander Shepherd, James Barbour, James M. Garnett. I hc chief justice delivered a charge to the jury, in which he enumerated the several of -1 fences cognizable by them under the laws of ■ the U. S. and particularly defined the crime of ! treason. Our last Richmond papers were dated on Saturday. We learn verbally since, that the trial of colonel Burr was put off to the latter end ol the present week, owing to the absence of general Wilkinson, the most material wit ness. 11 gen. W. did not then appear, it was supposed the trial would be postponed until the j next term of the circuit court. —Petcrsburgh lilt. JMay 26. W e have it from good authority, that gen. M ilkinson was to leave New-Orleans on the 15th ult. to attend the trial of col. Burr.—Nor folk paper. NEW-YORK ELECTION. As we shall not, in all probability, be fur nished officially with the result of the late elec tion for governor until about the 4th or stli of June, we now publish, for the satisfaction of the readers, and the information of our distant friends, the following statement of majorities in the lespective counties. The returns of the counties marked thus * are official; those of the others are derived from sources which are believed to be correct. TOMTKINS. LEWIS. * Suffolk, ..... 132,5 * Queen’s, - - - 251 * King’s, ------ 52 * Richmond, ----- Ifi * New-York, ... - 134 Westchester, ... - 250 * Rockland, ----- 292 * Orange, ----- 223 Duchels. ----- 1050 * Columbia, ----- 206 * Ulftcr, 458 Delaware ----- 320 * Greene, ..... 31 fl * Albany, ..... 861 * Renfellaer, .... 41 Washington, .... 800 * Montgomery, ... 128 * Saratoga, - - - - 717 Clinton & Essex, ... 250 Schoharie, .... 104 * Otfego, .... 724 * Herkimer, .... 47s Oneida, .... 40 Jefferfon, Lewis and 7 St. Lawrence J Chenango, .... 650 Madison, .... 330 Onondaga, .... 300 Cayuga, .... 550 Seneca, .... ICX> Ontario & Genefsee - - 300 Steuben, - - - - - 100 Log a and Broome, - . 200 7908 3220 3226 Majority for Tompkins, 4082 It is believed that the official statement, when published, will not differ from the genc : ral result here given, two hundred votes either , way .—--American Citizen. His excellency governor Greenup of Ken tucky, has received instructions from the Pre sident of the United States to enrol as volun ; teers arty troops, company or individual who may feel disposed to tender their services, un der the act passed at the last session of Gon ; gress, empowering the President to engage any number of volunteers not exceeding thir ty thousand—to hold themselves in readiness to march when called upon. Wc understand this is simply a precautionary measure ; and in all probability, the volunteers will not be or dered out, unless the negociation with Spain should prove unsuccessful, in which event the services required, will lie ol the most active and honorable kind. —Nashville paper. A letter from Bilboa, dated March 24, says, j “our chief purpose is to inform you, that some time ago, in consequence ofan order, the quar j antine was reduced to a few days, but unfortu nately, soon after, an American vessel arrived at Alicant, from Barnstable, on board of which were found two sailors with the highest symp toms of the yellow fever. In consequence, a , severe order was issued from the king himself, j that all vessels coming from the U. States, should perform a strict quarantine of 40 days. At first it was reported and believed generally j that the cargoes could not b” landed, or the cep -1 Ups permitted to visitihel-axavctto ;.but, upon fcr.hcr informa ion, we w ere assured, that the (jegoes might be discharged, and the niastci9 Unprivileged as before. LITERARY NOTICE. (COMMUNICATED.) Mr. DAVID ALLINSON, of Ncw-Jerfoy, has lately pulillicd anew and very valuable Syltem of Gergraply,entitled, GEOGRAPHY AN AMUSE MENT. It is omprehended in a lettered case, of fevrnry right cads, each quarter of the world being primed in lettcrof a different colour. One of the cards U explai sory of a play, tokwhich they are adapted. Which nay rationally entertain companies of falhion and thefirll classes. Its ret ult is, improvement in the fcitnee. Th is Work will he of high import to fehools anti parent:, for the rapid improvement of their off-, l'prtng, in a manner to engage their attention, anil will render the labor attached to the study from books light and entertaining to them, while it is it great accommodation to travellers The literati in i Philadelphia, New York and Princeton, 11. j have given it their warm recommendations, and Mr. Al linfon has already nearly disposed of an edition of five thousand sets. Having heard of his being in Chariefloo, for the purpose of introducing th s work we hope he may adopt feme means for the lovers of literature and polite arts in this place, with fome copies of his valuable production. Died, on the 2d instant, in this city, Mr, James Allison, a native of Scotland. PORT Ol’ SAVANNAH. AIIRIVED. Ship Louisiana, Peior, New-York, 16 days... Lord & Flail... Merchandize. Schooner Polly, Hays, N. Carolina...mailer...Corn ! and Staves. Schooner Columbia, Hawes,Darien...Lord & Ha 11... Ballad. Sloop Republican, Brown, Charlerton, 1 day...mas r ter. Sloop Delight, Cooper, Charleston, 1 day...mailer. CLEARED. Schooner Dolphin, Gale, New-Yorlc Sloop, Columbia, Beacher, Charleston Brig Lovely Lass. Wheeler; (loops Fame, Tabor; Polly & Betsey, Bowles; andiloop Eliza, Allen, from f Savannah, have arrived at New-York. Ship Mary & Eliza, Simmons, from Savannah, has arrived at Kingdom Schr. Mary & Francis, Drummond, has arrived at Kingston from Savannah. She was plundered on her passage by a French privateer. Charleston, June 3. Capt. Gunter failed in eompany with the Hoop Peg gy, I .indegreen, for this port; and lchooner Jefferfon, for Philadelphia. Left at Kingston, brig Eliza, Stubbs, of this port, to fail for Tabasco on the 2d May. On Friday lad, oft the Bahama bank, spoke the Frit ilh armed schooner Dart, captain Warren, hound to Bolton. Ship Eliza; Batch, detained off this port by the In dian Hoop of war, has arrived at Bermuda. The American brig William, from Bordeaux for New Orleans has been sent into port Royal. On the 29th ult in lat. 32,78, capt. Almy spoke fclir, Edward, Prebble, two days out fiom Savannah for Jamaica. Oil the 23d inff. ofr Cape Hatteras, capt. Scrrell spoke brig Molly, from Havanna for New. York. ( ri Friday lad, in hit. 3C, 14, long. 77, 30, spoke fchoom r Eliza, 36 hours from Georgia, for the City of Walli ington. Captain Booth, together with the crew of the hri, Littlejohn, of this port, have arrived at New-York) They were taken from the wreck of that vessel, on the 16th us March lad, on the Florida reef, by the brig Wlll. Gray, capt. Saunders, from Jamaica. About 90 barrels of flour were also saved. Off Cape Fear, on the 21st inst. capt. Chafe wav hoarded by a French privateer, (pilot boat schooner) who took from him a calk of hams and a barrel of flour, and gave him an order on a merchant in this city lor payment, A large French privateer ha* been lately raptured on the Coast of Africa by a Britiih Hoop ol war. NOT I C 1.. ON the second Thursday in this month, applica ion will be made to the honorable the Justices of tile Infe rior Court, to admit John Mead to the benefit of tin acts of the legillatute of this Hate,for the relief of in solvent debtors. June 4. ,57 PINE APPLES. 100 dozen excellent FINE APPLES, Just Received and For Sale, by C. 11. Fisher. June 4> 57 Sheriff's Sales. WILL he fold 011 Tuesday 7th of July next, at the Coirt-Houfc in Savannah, between the ufu.tl hours of la)*, all that plantation near Savannah, known as No 2, aid part ol No 1, in Fail lawn tradt t contain ing 136 acts, more or less, adjoining lands of tlir late general Jatkfon; foreclosed as tlie property of Janu K and I ranci D. I„. Homaca and others, to fatijfy a mortgage die Richard M. William*. \ Jiomus KoLcrlson, s. c. c. r ,i it CHARLESTON. 3T he faft failing .Sloop Wilma m Brown, mart cry will fail on sjnday next. For passage only, apply on board to the iptaia. r 1 June 4. PI AND IN) I) (IE. ‘ -pilLMer, of the GRAND LODGE of Omr -L g|. and the refpedhve Lodges by their proper reprtfukativts, are notified to attend at the Grand Lodg'loom in the Filature,the firft Saturday in Jure next, ■lO o’clack in the forenoon, being a grand quar terly C mmunication. By order of the Right Wnr ihipfii Irand Mailer, ). 0, \V Ilhams Pranc! Scffyir. Wl'fi ‘ * £ .,