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Grand Lodge. Notice is hereby given, /$ *k ‘ 4 *Lit rite Grand Anru vor- J ' tS ‘ y sary and Genera! Ccm *N’ ‘talT immicatioii of the mo-*’ ‘.-*N ancient and honorable *B\ cietv of Fite and A ‘Cept —‘"'v ° ed Masons, in Georgia, -.-*>.. will he holA-ii m the Grand Ledge Rtwtn, in the Tila** 1 ' 0 ’ on MON DAV, the 28th itv t. where th- Members of the Grand Lodge, and the ‘ ,tv L,X, S C< ” are notified to attend at ‘ oc ‘'* ,! ‘ m the morn ing, precisely, in orde'; t 0 I' 1- '* <1 ' (l ,( > , cll '-i” |>< vdic-rc a sermon, si-table to l.u* occasion, v, ill hr r reached by t'-c rev. brother ( loud. All transient brethren, wishing to celebrate the day, are requested to join some of the lodges in live C'*/ 1 TICKETS tr.av be had of brothers T. Stew art and Y. Penny. By order of the Grand Lodge, D. 1). Williams, December 22—143 Grand Scc’ry. Knox K Pope, HAVE NOW LANDED, AND ILF SALE, f,5 bblj. and halt bbis. Philadelphia Flour 20 de. Philadelphia Beer (Haines) 30 hhds. old Jamaica hum bo do. N, F.. and VV. I.ditto 10 pipes Holland and Country Gin 10 dr. real Cogniac Brandy 0 qr. chests It \ son and Young Hyson Tea JO bbis. and 2 Idols. Loaf Sugar Coffee and Sugar in bbls. and hhds. l’epper, Spices and Ginger, in bags 20 dozen w ire and hair Seivc-i JOO piece:, be *. Cotton Bagging 203 do. do. Twine fur ditto ALSO IN STORE, 9 Hogsheads TOBACCO. December 10—138 Sugars. Fifty-two hogshen s SUGARS, of superior oualitv, 'received by schooner Independent, from Marigalantc, for sale by S. &. C. Howard. December 15—r. —Uo r rhe Cargo Os the sch. Samuel Ik Jane, from Guadaloupp, CONSISTING OF Ji hogsheads? , IRIME SUGARS, and 32 barrels S A quantity of COFFEE • Is offered for sale by S. lit C. Howard. December 12—138—l Ladies Mantles, &e. A superb assortment of Ladies Fawn-C.olored MANTLES Ladies Satin and Silk PELICES and SPEN CERS Ditto superfine Cloth and Cassimcrc ditto Elegant embossed Velvet TRIMMINGS Are now opening on the* Hay, one door east ol M essrs. Do din sft Baulk, by >\ . J. Sc. A. Weyman. November 24—131 gT& f. penny; HAVE FOll SALE, A handsome and well selected assortment of Fancy an.l Win is r CHAIRS H i;r, Cant and Windsor bOFAS, Bcc. Just rove . ad by the ship Liverp ol Packet, captain Par .'ns, from New-York. AND, ON CONSIGNMENT, Twenty-one casks assorted NAILS. November 26 132 A Wet Nurse wanted; For whom liberal w ages and punctual pay ment, h) tin* week or month, may be expected. Apply to the printers. December I7_y—Ml TANKS Defaulters arc Notified, that the di gest for 1307 is placed in my office, where returns will be received until the 15th day of Januarv next. JOB T. BOLLF.S, Clerk. Chatham county, Dec. 5, 1807—136 REMOVAL. THU Subfcriber* have removed to the large Hone bulHing, on Tavlor be Sca ►. b*ouou’ wharf; where ;hry are njw receiving a principal part ol their Fall Supply of Goods, 3v the Ammuca, captain Nichols,anJ the* At iian tu Hamilton,captain CALLAU.\N,from Liverpool, and for laic by James Dickson Sc Cos. September £6. m 106 Thomas Storr, H \VING taken part of the ttorcs occupied by J*Mi Johnston jun. esq. beg* leave to tender his ctrvicc* to bU friend, and the public, a* a f actor & Commission Merchant. Should he be , ntrullcd with the disposal of any pact o their Crops, he* fla-ters himfclf by his alhdnity and unf remitted attention to their mteretls, to merit a continu otion of their favors. October 1—1(W Commission N Factorage BUSINESS. TV!I fubferibrr having largo and convenient Stores*, on tl'.c wharf adjoining James Wallace, efq offers his Cervices to hi> friends and the public, as a COMMIS SION MERCHANT and FACTOR. Thomas Lawrence. o;tJbcrß...ill FROM THE AURORA. LETTER THE FOURTH. TO JOHN MARSHALL, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES. Sir— You appear to have premeditatedly formed a determination in the case of Burr’s conspiracy, which all the ingenuity of your fa culties, and all the experience of your life, in le gal and legislative proceedings, were necessary to sustain to favor him in any plausible or prac ticable shape. But the difficulties in which you involved yourself in the support of your re solution, drove you into a series of peiplcxities, from which you have not been able to extricate yourself. Like systematic liars, who progress from the commission of one dishonest imposi tion, to the invention of a thousand, lo give the original support ; from a momentary success, become professional deceivers. Discerning men see in the magnitude the volume, the extravagant length of the opinions you have given in Burr’s case, only a stratagem to defeat that general spirit of investigation, which brings public men, their actions, and opi hioxh, before the eye of ttie people, lly their magnitude, you are supposed to have calculat ed to exceed the bounds of ordinary patience, nr tbe powers of discrimination in the great bo dy of the nation. And by the same means, you saw that the multitude of opinions, howe ver nincli at variance with each other, and wah justice, would still affoid the partisans of Burr •nd your friends, who are now considered as J the same pat ty, a sufficient quantity of points j of argument to oppose to others, which might * be adduced from the same opinions, to counte nance every species of public crime. My obji ct was not at once to go into an ana lysis of your opinions in detail. There is in every human countenance, sonic feature which strikes the vision at the first sight—aid your opinions are of that ciiatactei. I have seiz ed upon a few prominent features only ; and I consider the task, which I had voluntarily un dertaken. already finised It will not be sup posed that I have stopped at this preliminary of proceeding because I have reached the last point of your partiality and guilt, but be cause they need no further proof. They do not give you credit, for that constancy of attach ment which you have manifested, who sup pose that you would desert your protege before he hud experienced the ne plus ultra ol ysur possible assistance. To comment upon every evidence of partiali ty and illegal bias which your conduct has af forded would render necessary the introduction of every opinion, and almost every obilum Mc tum which you have pronounced from the com mencement ol the examination to the time ol Burr’s recognizance to uppi ar in Ol io. The footsteps of your fidelity, may be traced from the commencement iu the termination of that gloomy path which treason has trodden through the. da. k forest of iuw precedents , and t H’ windings o! the barren desert of judicial learning. But it is not necessary for my pur pose. i bat you should be followed through the frightful wilderness or the fruitless plain. To men of liberal and unbiassed minds, no thing mote than die statement of a few facts was necessary, to support the charges which 1 have alledged against you. They would listen .villi impa'hnce to a larger enumeration of! shameful partialities, criminal abuses of discre tion, and disgt .icefi'l prostrations of judicial dig nity. With them, the detail of many facts, proving the same thing, would he as supeiflu ous as the introduction ot an nundred witnesses to swear n court to the existence of a fact al ready established by the oaths of twenty men of unquestionable veracity. * But “ there is a party” in this country who will adhere to you, in spi c of the clearest de monstration of the pernicious tendency of your principles, and whose attachment will be cn crcuscd by every deviation which you make from the “ path of judicial duty.” All attempts by the force of arguments or facts to detach them from you will be vain. Should I even follow you through the labyrinth of perversion and patriality, the postal only of which I have entered, thev would still declare that you had been guided through ‘us mazes by the unerring line of right and truth, and not by the silken cord of sophistry and guilt. With this party, a dereliction of the guiltv docs not follow a conviction of their guilt. The certainty of your sins therefore only serves to strengthen their attachment. The circumstances of your dining with a man, the probability of w hose guilt you had pronounced—your patient attention to indeco rous slander, and scurrilous abuse of the execu tive branch ol the federal government—your soul-discovering lapsus tingute, about the wishes of the government to convict Burr—your in sulting the counsel of the United States, by in cluding them in a general remark, occasioned not by the ** unprincipled and unfounded” as sertions off.uthei Martin, who was constantly excited by habitual intoxication to the language of Billingsgate, and whom you ought to have sent to the stocks—but the expression of Mr. M'Rac’s honest indignation. Your perfect disregard to the dignity of the court, in ne peering to censure Martin indivi dually for his blackguard effusions of spleen and brandy, and yet insulting the gentlemen of coun sel on both sides by a general observation—all these things, besides superior services in opini ons and explanations of opinions, serve only to endear you to your party, the worst enemies of the United States. * for these reasons I shall not comment on them—l do not wish to prolong their feast, by 1 a father analysis of your conduct, so grateful tothem, or to disgust the Forest, by adding more instances in evidence ot your guilt, and the degraded dignity of the station you now cc cupy. Could I however he instrumental in remov ing you Irom the elevation which you have dis honored by the reflection of your crimes, I would still trace you through the intricate windings of a trial rendered most remarkable for screening a criminal and degrading a judge. But, sir, 1 have very little tuiih in the effica cy of impeachment, and do not wish to see you merely Chased —l wish to see the evil you have done noticed as it should be by the constituted authorities, and proper guards setup. You cannot, however, explain away these charges, as you have done to defend the coun try against the outrages of traitors and treache rous magistrates—the meaning of a decision of the supreme court of ilie United Sta-es, (until now thought binding on the district couttsof the United States) on a late occasion, to serve a particular purpose, depending, no doubt, on the weight of your judicial character, for the accpjiescence of the puisne judges of the su preme court, in your subsequent explanation. There is, sir, a wide discrimination between the perception ol a plain tiuth, and the easy de tection and exposure of a sophistical argument; or of a false but specious construction of tech nical phrases and legal language. And there is still a wider difference between the power of performing the tricks of legal legerdemain, and a mere capacity to discover tneir decep tions. Although long continued practice may have given you uncommon felicity in perform ing all the juggie of a judicial farce , and your countrymen have not acquired the practical power of performance , yet nature has kindly giicn them the “ common sense” to perceive the dextrous deceptions of even a chief jug gter. You cannot deprive them of “ common sense” or “ save” vourseif from its “ deduc tions.” There is a striking similarity in the situation of the man you screened and your own——mo rally guilty, it; common sense guilty, but not guilty within the pretended limits of the con stitution—essentially. but not formally guilty ; traitors in heart and in fact, but not in punisha ble appearance—remarkable for the possession of great talents, and the perpetration of great political crimes—for the actual enjoyment of more liberty than the citizens of any other country, and for unwearied attempts to destroy it. Both attempting to subvert a government, almost the highest offices of which they enjoy ed—both delected and neither punished 1 ! Such a criminal and such a judge few coun tries have ever produced. They seem destined to answer the purposes of each other. How different are these remarks, from those which both yourself and Aaron Burr might have merited, and which would certainly have been made, on different courses of conduct, and dissimilar applications of talents ! ! But you are forever doomed to blot the fair page of A merican history ; to be held up, as examples of infamy and disgrace, of perverted talents and unpunished criminality, of foes to liberty and traitors to your country. A conviction that these remarks are true, must be painful to every “ American, in heart and in sentiment,” and to none can be more so, than to him, who, by exposing their truth, lias only done his duly, unless it be those, on whose bosoms detection or conscience may have in flicted a deeper w ound. I now, sir, take my leave of you, I hope, for ever. In doing this, I will not suppress the wish of inv heart—that you may soon cease to occupy a station, the duties of which, I consci entiously believe, you have not discharged “ to the best of your knowledge and ability,” but have used as engines to your country— and that you may, in the tranquil shade of retire ment, (if it can toe tranquil to the guilty) dis charge the duties of a man, more honestly than you have done those of a citizen, and in such a manner as to justify a belief, that “ the most reprobate will repent, the most guilty reform, and the most haidened sinner be forgiven.” LUCIUS. HISTORY AND the fine arts. Yesterday were presented to George Cly mer, esquire*, and Dr. Benjamin Rush, as the only surviving representatives for Pennsylvania in the congress that declared the independence oi the United States, fine impressions of the medal, lately struck in Philadelphia, in com memoration of that splendid event. Obverse, a head of Benjamin Franklin, taken from Hcu don’s Bust—inscription, lightning averted ; ty ranny repcU'd. Reverse, the American Beav er, nibbling at the overshadowing Oak of Bri tish power, on the Western Continent. Date, 1776.—1'H1L. TAP. PRINTERS* TOASTS. Delivered at the meeting of the Philadelphia Typographical Society. The United States—A beautiful form of 18’s, imposed with such art as to fold without cutting— May the constitutional quoins with which it is locked up, remain firm for ages. Ilail Columbia. Admiral Berkley and captain Humphreys— A ga/lovs for their suspension, and old pelts for their night-cc/;? Pogue’s March. The rival workmen in the political printing office of Europe—Bonaparte has worked it so as to get all the sorts, Roman and Italic , Ger man, Greek and Hebrew ; and if the English don’t keep a sharp look out, they will have to set up their last half-sheet in black. The fair daughters of Columbia—Lovely, loving and beloved—May they be committed to the care of none but regular workmen, im posed in good furniture, and worked so as to [ bring off good impressions, Tenth Centre 3s of the United States. house of representatives. fl .dnetday, December 2. Mr. Daw sen made the folio wing report:— The committee to whom was ieferred, that part cf the president’s message which relates to cur military and naval estabUrlniients, ,\<*. beg leave to make the following report, in part: 1. Resolved, That it is expedient to increase the military establishment of tbe United Matt b\ raising regiments of infantry , to consist at ruen each ; regiments of artille rists ot men each ; regiments of rifle men of men each, and— regiments of cavalry of men each. 2. Resohed, That it is expedient to increase the marine corps, by raising additional number of men. 3. Resolved, That provision ought t,vbe made bv law, for the speedy equipment of all the frigates and other vessels cf war belonging to the U iff ted States. To render the establishment more effectual, that ships of guns c idi be built. This report was referred to a committee of the whole on Monday next. A bill was received from the senate, by Mr. Otis, their secretary, entitled “ A bill for the preservation of peace, and maintenance of the authority of the United States, in the pe ts, har bors and waters under their jurisdiction. On motion of Mr. Randolph, the order of the day on the report ct the committee appointed to prepare standing rules anel orders, was post poned, \Y hen the house went into a cot imittee of the whole on the resolutions offered by Nit*. Ran dolph yesterday ; and the first resolution bt og under consideration, was, on motion cf Mr.Quin cy, amended by striking cut the words, “ dis graceful to the,” and inserting “in a.” A con siderable debate took place ; in which Messrs. Randolph, Nelson, and Elliot supported, and Messrs. Eppes, Snfflie, and Holland opposed it in its present form. Mr. Eppes offered the following amendment in lieu of the resolution, which the chairman doclai cd to be a suosulutc, auu tuerciorc out of order: ‘‘ Fur the payment of all claims against tho United States for personal service, or for any matter or thing furnished during the revolu tionary war—and for placing on the pension list every officer or soldier who has been disa bled during the revolutionary war—whether such disability lias been incurred while in the ac tual line of his duty or not,” When, it being 4o’clock, the committee rotfc without taking a question on the resolution, and obtained leave to sit again, Thursday , December 3. After transacting considerable business of minor importance, The bill from the senate for the preservation of peace and maintenance of the authority of the United States, within out* ports and harbors was read twice and referred to a committee of the whole on Monday next, (a motion having been made by Mr. Bibb without effect, to refer it to a select committee.) Ayes 77. Mr. Randolph moved for the order of the day* on the unfinished business of yesterday, being the consideration of the resolutions submitted by him. Mr. M. Williams moved to discharge the committee of the whole from the f itrhev consi deration of these resolutions, on the ground of the subject being already in possession .*•: com mittees of the house ; the first being in his opinion in the hands of the committee on claims barred, ike. the second, cf the committee pointed to revise the militia laws, and the third, of the committee on that part of the president’s message relating to military and naval estab lishments. After some conversation on the subject, be tween Messrs. Williams, Eppes and Randolph, the question was taken separately on discharg ing the committee of the whole from further consideration of each resolution, and each ne gatived. On the first, at es 34 ; on the second, ayes 32; on the third, no div ision. Ihe house then went into committee of the whole, Mr. Basset in the chair, when file question was taken on the first resolu tion, without further discussion, and carried— Ayes 63—Navs 51. ‘I he second resolution being under conside ration, Mr. Eppes moved to strike out the words “ Btc whole body of,” so as to leave the resohi lution more general. Nlr. Chandler moved to amend it further, by adding at the end of the resolution the words “ when called into actual service.” The amendment offered bv Mr. was, after debate, negatived—Ayes 54, Nays 56. 1 hat offered by Mr. Chandler was then ne gatived—Ayes 43. Mr. Thomas moved to amend the resolution by inserting after the words “Resolved, the words “ the committee appointed to en quire whether any, and what, amendments ate necessary <o be made, in the militia laws, be instructed to enquire into the expediency of making.” This amendment was negatived—Ayes 34. On this second resolution and the various amendments offered, an interesting debate took place ; in which Messrs. Randolph, F.ppcs, Lloyd, Chandler, Nelson, Thomas, Smilie, Ma con, Newton, Alston, Rhea, (Ten.) Fisk, Love, Lyon, Cook, and Dawson took part. The second resolution (as originally offered) was then agreed to—Ayes 66. ‘I he third resolution was agreed to without a division, and without debate. I he committee rose and reported the res'v. lutions. The first was agreed to by the house without a division ; when the question being about to he taken on the second resolution, on motion ot Mi*. Randolph, was agreed to be taken by yeas and nays. Before the yeas and nays were taker., it be ing 4 o’clock, a motion was made to adjourn, and carried—Ayes 77. Tiffs day the bill making an appropria tion for the more effectual defence of the noils nd harbors of the United States, was passed in the senate of the United States, with but lit tie division This bill appropriates 852,500 dollars, for the erection of 188 additional gun boats.