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HANCOCK MEETING Sparta. (Geo.) 201 A August, 180 T. Toward Tslfaih, Esq. S, K _\Ve nivc the pleasure to acknowledge tlie receipt of \our lavor, as chairman of the prmianent committee, enclosing the icsolu tmis and proceedings of our tcllow-cilizens ol Savannah, by which out co-operation is reques ts. iifopposi ion to the late outiage commit ted on our national rights l>y a British ship of v ar, the Leopard. So far as our personal in fl ictice will exiChcl. o: our exettions will have effect, they shall he used to piomote the get.c rai welfare, and to rouse in out fellow-citizens a just indignation of the proceedings ol the ca binet of St. James. Aid we beg through you, to assure our biethren ol Savannah, that we are tinned with them in heart and sentiments ; and th t you will lay before die n the proceedings Os the citizens of this county, w hich you have in ihe paper lieiewilli enclosed, as a specimen of that unanimity so mu< h to he desired, and *b necessary ii all great national concerns, and of iheir determination 10 sacrifice their lives an I fortunes, sonnet than their liberty sbali he profiled by the unhallowed hand of lawless power. We, in the name of our countrymen, request anv communication which may he deemed ne cessary. A cept, sir, the tender of our highest es teem, Richard A. Blount, John Chowder, Rolling Wall, for themselves, and William Rabun, Stephen Evans, M ho are absent. Sparta. August 15. At a numerous meeting ol the citizens of < II nicock county, in die town o ‘-purta, on | T hursday, the 6;li of August, 1807. gener.l j 1). B Mitchell, at the request of the chaiiman, * read to the meeting the pioclanialion ol the ! Rresident of tiic United States, alter which, the • resolutions and address to be forwarded by the j chairman to the President of the Uni ed States, • •Which were prepared by the commit'ee ap-j pointed for that purpose ; the resolutions and I address were almost tin itiimotisly adopted.! Dming the whole transaction, that excmpLi y j o, dei was preserved, which could exist alone In a deep sense of the importance of the oe ta: toil. ‘I he itizens of Hancock County, Georgia, Convened for die purpose ol taking into consi <li a i. n tile late impel u.iplcd and civ ai <!ly a’- tat kon the lii he Chesapeake by die Hi iii-.li slop of war the Leopard cannot forbear to cx piess men cot dial approbation of tliat system cf policy which has been pursued by the g<>- m iinnein. of the United St \tes, and whi h has hitherto secure cl lo her ci.izcns the incs'.i.n. • In ;>tessin K s ol peace, and they with equal sin. Cerity lament that this disposition in our go. \criniient, has not induced reciprocal acts of jus. tue and gomt-will from the government of 1 11 cal-biitain ; hut, on the contrary, the uni loiin ton met of die Biitish cabinet has bet rav ed such marked contempt for the lights of the United States, as an independent nation, that a ]< tiger forbearance would betray a want of en trgy, and a dereliction of our national dignity end character : The tfjre Krs/ved, That we sincerely sym pathize with the millions of America, in the loss of those brave tars, who were wantonly and Ctut lly murdered on hoard the Chesapeake by the impious h ind of British insolence. Kihjlv </, 1 hat we offet our thanks to the citizens of Norfolk and Hampton, for their pa triotic and vigorous preparations to defend our violated tights. Kraalve</ % That we heartily concur in the spi rited resolutions of the several committees that : have met in diiVerent parts of the union on this t ini|K)rtaiU occasion. j Krsolved, I'hat vve have the utmost confi- 1 dence in the wisdom, integrity and patriodsm f die chief magistrate of our nation ; and that avc tire ready to sacrifice our property ami our lives in the execution ol wh never measures m iv lif udop ed. “ to provide for the common defence, promote the genet al welfare, and sc one the blessings of liberty to ou. selves and to our postciity.” • ing he requested to transmit to the President of the United States, and the governor of this s’ ite, a copy of these proceed! v sand that they l). published in the Farmer’s G izctte. Kraotvcd, I'liat the citizens return i heir thanks j to the committee for the patrotic discharge of j the dines assigned them. j AV.v i/vrJ. ‘l'liat the thanks of this meeting be voted to the chan man for his patriotic discharge of the duties of die chair ANDRE W BAX TER. Chairman. “Samuel Butts, Secretary. TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES. Slit— I’he citizens ol Hancock county,Geor- 1 gia. convened for the purpose of expressing , their indignation and resentment, at the late , unprovoked and lawless attack on the American , frigate Chesapeake, by a British man of war the Leopard, and believing as they do. that this attack was not the unauthorised act of an indi vidual. but the offspring of orders actually re- j ocivtd trom the British government, anti be* I lining further, that this forms but one link in i that organized ch in of depredations, which the j insolent minions of that abuidoned government i isve been in the constant habit of coamuiung, i •4ret since tlie atebievement of our indepen dence by the glorious struggles of the revolu tion ; and believing,as they have teasontodo, that there does not exist with the Biitish go vernment any principle or inclination, bv w hich reparation is to be made for the past, or future encroachments averted ; but that, rejiosing on the confidence ol hy naval superiority, she is determined to pursue measures ol ho-nitty, to the utter annihilation of our neutrality; and that tier violation of our neutrality is not alone, but connected with the basest encroachments on our liberty, in the impressment of our sea men ; collating this with the just, mild and pacific conduct, unilornily manifested by the government ol the United States towards that of Greut-Briiaiti; feel it their duty to express their entire confidence, that the chief magis trate of the union, wid. with promptitude, take such measures as will ensure an.pie reputation for the injuiies we have sustained, by peacea ble negotiation, it that be practicable, consist ent with the dignified station which we justly occupy with the nations ot the earth. But, let it never be forgotten- that, tho* peace is the just interest, as well as tlie foremost wish of Americans, yet.il they cannot have for its oasis the reciprocal tights, and liie reciprocal iricitd sliip ol nations, tney disclaim the lettered boon, anti relying on the justice ol their claim, make a solemn appeal to ...ture wild to liatu.e’s God for the redress of their gnevaiices. They therefore tender you, sir, tlie solemn assurance, that should the executive find it necessary to call lorth the energies of tlx; nation, they aie ready to rally around the of their liberty, and to sac, iiice their lives and their pro perty at its alt r before its porals shall be pro faned by the unhallowed hands ol any power upon the cm tin BRITISH VOLUNTEERS. A distinction, without a difference, is made by the British papers here as to Americans compelled to sei ve, anci those who volunteer. ! In this paper a publication lately appealed to j prove that in the vi uy nature ot things, it was i highly improbable mat there was any such 1 chaiuctet in the whole llrinsn navy as a vo j lunieer Anerican-noin seaman. Since that f ai tide was published, a respectable Captain in | the inti chain’s set vice com. -imicmed to me j liie iiMim i i.i which \mericttn seamen are [ untile a.tunteei s in the navy of England. So soon as all American is impressed, the 1 impressing officer tears nis protection. He is men brought before the captain, who haughtily demands •• wlial leiloiv is this “ He is u de serter, please your honor ?” “ No, sir, 1 am an American citizen.” “ You are, are you ? Bray then sir, where l- your protection f” It was taken from me by the officer of tlie party that pressed me.” “/Ah, that’s the old story well ail you ruvi-tiways Is there any one on board lliul has any knowledge of this fellow ?” file business being perfectly understood, ami r'gu'arly si at, mutiz and, a British sailor steps for ward, makes bis bow. and says, “ Yes. please your honor, 1 know him very well; he was in the sane mes k with me lor 18 months, on board his majesty’s slip the . I'he re’s lorn, standing iheic, knows him as well as 1 do.” I’om immediately lakes the hint, steps up and confirms the stov ol nis messmate with a due seasoning ofoa hs. The American, thunder st uck a> such baseness, vainly endeavors to be heard He wid not he permitted to speak. He is commanded, and c impelled to oc silent, and this scene ot twiqui y is concluded by his being ordered below for nu her examination He is not brought up again tor several days, if he is tefractory ; and in the mean lime he is treated with the mo,’ lgomus scve'iiv. the bitterest tanntings and the most ruei threatenings. In this manner, surrounded bv enemies, and with out a friend his spirits sink, and he enters, with a fixed determination to embrace tbe first occu -1 sion to escape fom his bondage. \VTiI any I mat presume to s tv, that men thus impressed , into the seivice are volunteers, or will he pre j tend that such a contract is. or ought to be, bind iag ? j I'he captain who communicated the above facts, concluded the statement something in ‘ tins w.iy : “ Vniericat’ seamen, volunteers in the British navy, are such voluiveers as I once : saw in Dublin. 1 was walking on one of the quays, when’ 1 met a parcel of soldiers guard ing a number of men, who vve c hand-cuffed and walking m the censer I stepped up to one J ol the guard, and enquired who those men were tha 1 they wee thus conducting in hand cuffs. Indeed then, sir, said the soldier, with perfect gravity ot coimtenjpve. thev are volun tars going to serve bis majesty 11”——7Jctro crutic J’rcas. MILITARY WORK. ] A comp-ehensivc ‘Military Work, is about to appear at Philadelphia, in numbers, lo be ex tended to eight or ten numbers, with piates. It will comprehend tlie whole of the actual system of French discipline and tactics; the discipline of ritle corps and hussars; the disci pline of flying or horse artillery ; the principles of field defence ; the duties of every branch of the staff or eiut-m ljor ; and the duties of gene ‘ ral officers. ; Besides, an interesting historical review of j the Art of War, and of the various changes and luses of warlike weapons The work, when published, which will be in • a few weeks, will be for s de at S. Pleasant’s book : store, Richmond —Acgus In this city, (says an Albany paper of August j 18) within ten days past, probably one half the j inhabitants have experienced attacks of the In t fluenza, and in he country, in every direction, • it more or lets prevails. CONDITION or ENCLANB. FROM THE AURORA. Those ivho have kept our numbers of “ Po litics for Farmers and Mechanics,” would do well to preserve the following also—at. once as ati evidence of their correctness and an elucida tion of their statements. In so few words, ive have seldom seen so full and laithful an expo i sition of the ill fated condition of the people of : Britain, and of the true nature of the govern ment. Those who put confidence in the mi- I nistry of England, for a disavowal of the con ! duct of Beikley, should reflect upon the follow ing. from the pen of an honest peer of England, j elected to parliament from the first city in Bti j tain. Our Boston tory prints call this letter ja • cobinism, and wonder why such language was i suffered to go unpunished ; from whence vve I may learn what we should have to expect had j they the power to establish among us such a “ stupendous fabric of human invention.” TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. Gentlemen —Next to the consciousness of en deavoring sincerely to serve my country, Ho tting can be more pleasing to my mind, than the public approbation of my endeavours. Ac cept my greatful thanks. At the same time forgive me for feeling something like despair of any good to the coun try, whilst I see the regular expences of cot ruption, greatly exceed all the expences neces sary for any war, which we can be justified iti pursuing: whilst I see attempts to delude the public mind, by comparatively petty and in significant enquiries into what is termed pecu lation : whilst those inquirers themselves think it not dishonorable to seize greedily every op portunity of enriching themselves out ot ihe public spoil, by any other means, not termed by theui peculation. uch wretched notions of public honor and honesty, can afford no signal benefit to the pub lic, nor can give us any suitable redress. They appear to .. e to resemble the notion of chasti ■ ly eutei tained by the prostitute, who boldly chal lenged any to say, that she ever went out of the regiment. > ccording to them, all within the regiment, all within the red book, is honorab e and virtuous. And they insult us by declaring, they have as good a title by the red book, as any of the people can have to the fruits of their in- J duslry, or to the inhertitance of their ances tors ; from which industry, and from which inheritance, be it remembered, and from them aloe, the red book itself takes every thing it has to bestow. So that they pretend as good a right to all which they can contrive to take from us as vve have to the remainder—till they can take that too. Gentlemen, figure to yourselves a gang of robbers, combined to plunder the peaceable and industrious inhabitants of several parishes, and agreeing among themselves to share the booty in such different proportions as the leader of the gang shall appoint to each. From time to time it will happen, that some thief or other a m< tigst them will purloin a part of the booty, and clandestinely appropriate to himself more than his appointed share. The purloiner is tie detected ; and the gang with open mouths ex claim against the atrocity of cheating—there giment: the only crime of the kind which they acknowledge to be o. Would it not be ri diculous in these plundered parishes to take any part in such a dispute, and to divide thetn j series into strong pat ties for the accuser or the i accused? As long as the thieves in common | take all they can seize, what is it to the plun i dered people who shares the booty, how they share it, and in what proportion ? Ought , thev not rather to destroy the gang and abol- I isb the combination ? J Such is my conception of the different cor j rupt ministers we have seen, and their corrupt 1 adherents ; and unless the public, with an unit ■ ed voice, shall loudly pronounce the abolition of the whole of tlie present systems of corrup tion, I must still continue to despair of my country. You, gentlemen, by this unparalleled elec tion, have lately pronounced your sentiments, nv.v your voice be echoed through the land. In the mean time though an individual is al most a.-, n thing in the scale, I will carry with me your sentiments into the house of com mons. And I assure you, that no rational en : deavours of mine shall be omitted, to restore , to my countrymen the undisturbed enjoyment of the fair fruits of their industry : to tear out the accursed leaves of that scandalous red book, and to bring back men’s minds to the almost forgotten notions of the sacredness of private property, which ought no longer to be transfer red from the legitimate possessors, by the cor rupt votes of verxil anil mercenary combinations. I will continue, gentlemen, disinterestedly • faithful to the interests of my country, and en deavor to prove my self your zealous represen tative. Francis Burdett. Kosciusko lives in great privacy at Paris, and ; almost in a state of penury. No temptations ! can induce him to meddle in the concerns of his • unhappy country. The emperor Alexander h is offered him pecuniary relief to a considera ble amount, but he great fully waved the offer. Such is the character of a republican worthy of antiquity. IVit in humble life. —At a late contested elec tion at Southson, between Mr. B. E. and Mr. G. R. a waggoner belonging to the foimer, accost ed a servant of the latter, while ch iving an ox team into the town: “ Well. John. I dear za them oxen be to be roasted for your pe .rtv to-day, beam them ?” “ Oh. yes.” answered John, “and the waggon is a gwine to be stewed for yourne.” London paper. LIBF.RUM MAP.fi. FROM THE AURORA* Bell’s Weekly Messenger, of London, ccn tains the following publication, founded pi inri pally upon the out’ age committed by Whitby at New-York, which is at ot ce remarkable for its liberality and intelligence. The miserable emissaries of Britain, in this country, dare not avow sentiments so candid and correct as we thus find even in a London print; there is scarcely a principle laid down in this atticle that has not been disputed in this, our neutral and high'y interested country. The rights of trade are, in this article, well defined, and in such a way as this country oe s mauds. In one particular only, theie appears j an error or deficient) —mention is made of i main sea , in a loose sense, and leaves rocm to I conjecture, that the writer made an exception for the narrow seas, as St. George’s channel. It ought always - to be understood, that the claims of Great-Biitain on tins point, are not allowed—nations make no discrimination be tween the Atlantic and St. Gt-orge’s channel ; | they contend, what may be exercised on one, 1 may also be performed on the other, without i molestation. The question of jurisdiction over i such seas as the British term narrow, is settled jat least by general consent. Ihe Portuguese ; at one rime claimed exclusive jurisdioti. t rover i the Indian ocean ; and the navigation ol the : Baltic and Adriatic has given rise to repeated j wars : but there has been no assent to the t claim of any nation, to control a greater extent ; of sea from the coast, than could be passed by Ia cannon shot fired from sl.ote. The remarks in the seventh paragraph, it.deed, define the ju- I risdictioh. beyond which it is unlawful to exer cise hosttlicies ; but occasion ought always to be taken to deny the ch im ofiu beiiigeient to a • greater extent on i;s coasts. \\ c have heie English authority, too, for saying that the administration oi Pitt was dis tinguished by arbitrary and despotic measures towards neutrals—.be men now in power are the underlings of that minister, and pursue the . very same despotic system that he did. i We recommend this article to particular at . tention—justice could not have been expected, when W hitby had at his command the oaths of men, who put little value on them, and who were all indirectly implicated with ..im IF the testimony of our witnesses could have had effect, the commission of the outrage within our jurisdiction would have been established. 1 EXTRACT. The unfortunate afl'ait oi the death of Pierce, by a shot fired trom the Leander has excited I much attention, not only in America, but a* I mongst the neutral nations in Europe. We have some cause to believe, that it was not without some difficulty ai.d a great address , that a general remonstrance of all the neural powers has been prevented. It is with regret that, our sacred regard to truth and our national I honor , requires us to concur in this opinion. ! The whole question turns upon the single * point—whether it was done in the main sea, or in the waters of the United States ? By the principles of the law of nations, tha | main sea is consideted as common to all na j tions—that ail have tlie tight ol interrupting j transmit, and none any right of property or do ; minion. The liberum mare is a fundamental ; principle in the public law of Europe, i The sea is theteby considered as a wide t road, an extended path, and the freedom of S transit as a part, and a most essentLl part, of ; the general liberty of nations. | It has hence become a question, how far tho j right of search, with regard to neutral vessels, j is founded upon the strictness of this law. Let I us not be supposed as the willing advocates of J new opinions, if we asset t, that it can hove no j possible foundation —that it is, on the oth r j hand, a direct violation of neutral rights. Our j maritime superiority, however, gives it an erfcr% j ced introduction , and the nations cf Europe sub- I milled to what they could not preven : they | acknowledged it, (at least tacitly acknowledge ! ed) as a branch ot the general law, and gave us credit for the discovery. It was doubtless more consoling to their pride to obey a general and mutual law, than to submitto fotce. Hence the introduction of the right of search, th first infringement of the fundamental principles of commercial liberty—the liberum mare. But in what manner soever introduced, this right is now established, and as the practical public law is founded almost as much in usage as in neutral right, so has this original innova+ lion become now, in a degree , sanctioned into a legitimate law. It has become a law of com pact, if not ol right, and as such will ever be ac ted upon by any nation which shallfnd it to it advantage. \\ ith regard to us, it has been adopted as the basis of our neutral code , and is adhered to, and will continue to be adhered to, with scarcely less temerity than our navigation act. But, though the main seas, as we have said above, are considered as the common right of all, and the property or dominion of none, thi# liberty and commonage is confined to the main seas. In municipal regulations, with tegard to navigable rivers, the stream is public property i the water on the immedia e edge of the banks is ! the property, at least so far as it does not in | terfere with the public commouage, or right of I transit, of the proprietor of the bank; if a tree, ! a post, a fishery, exist within so many feet of I the bank, it belongs to him. The same limitation, with regard to the libe w f rum mare, exists among nations.’ The coasts ! and waters of he coasts are the peculiar waters —the property and dominion of the nation which owns the coasts. Thus Spain prohibits all ships from approaching within a certain distance of ) her bays, livers, and her coast on the Amcricag-