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NEW-YORK, June 6.
Captain Waterman, of the (lift, Fortitude, who arrived
o;i f uDrday i.i 37 days from Lisbon, informs, that
£ pack: t arrived there the day he failed, which left
.London the 25th of April; the pafftngers in her report
that affairs then wore a more pacific aspect. Our fir
mer accounts from London are to the 24th April. The
markets at Liibon arc over (locked with Hour, and
American produce was very low, except corn, flour
had fold as low 33 7 dollars per barrel. Bnfinefs was at
am the merchants dubioin in making purchases
** r 1-les, in consequence of the unsettled Hate of Europe.
Our correfpondcnt at Gibrnlter, under the date of
4 l h May, writes us a; follows:— 1 Anew proclamation
has been ifiued by th : governor, putting the inhabit ints
under war regulations and rJlriclions. The new gov
ernor, General Trigge is arrived ; but whether he will
take the command or not, is uncertain ; fome fay the
l)ukc or Kent will remain, and Gen. Tri;go to
Malta. If this (hould be the Case, no doubt remains
that the d’lke will fend off by the soldiery per for e.
His di;. i.dme is severe, and he is a friend to the inhab
itants ; these alone, would be fu die lent motives for ren
dering any governor odious in the eyes of the military.
A day or two ago there was a hot press in our bay for
seamen, from all the Englifti merchantmen, by the f<-
gitc Amazon, which is waiting to take the Duke of
Kent to England. He will Hop at Liibon, to visit his
brother.
“ The Englifli and Spaniffi merchants redding in
Spain are alarmed at the profpecl ‘f a fptedy war. The
Spanish comt here taken off the quarantine imposed noon
American vessels, provided a Spamth consular certificate
be attached to their bills of health.
“ On the* 29th ult arrived (hip Tyrent, from Baltimore. j
No paper has been ifined from the printing office here ;
for 5 works. Our letters just received by this day’s mail,!
contain the opimon of the merchants in the different ports ‘
of France Spam, Italy, and Portugal ; they are uniformly ‘
in one lentimmt—“ that war is inevitable.”
CHARLESTON, June 21.
The (hip John and Frances, ca.pt. Baas, arrived this!
morning from Bordeaux, left that ciiy on the sth, and
the CJrdovun on the Stir of May. We have received I
by this arrival, our regular (lies of the arcus, an En-J
gjiffi newspaper printed in Paris to the if! of May; from j
■which we have Elected the moll prominent articles on i
the important subject which now agitates the public j
mind.. ..Tlicle certainly have a pacific afped; but the]
following extract of a letter ‘from a merchant of j
rcfpectubil ty in Bordeaux, to his correfpondcnt in this
city, Lavs us nothing to expect but a speedy recom
mencement of hollilities.
Bordeaux, sth May, 5 o’clock, p. m.
This day three couriers difp itched from Paris, to com
mercial houfs in this city, hare arrived with the news
that the British ambassador had left Paris, on the 3d inff.
Jans prendre conge, and that war was certain between the
two nations. In consequence, large purchases of both fa
gar and coffee have been made; yet ‘as no exprels has been
received by the different public officers, and we know j
that Mods- t e Brtin, fun to the third consul, was dif
patchcd 24 hours after tne departure of Monsieur
Laurillon,-bearer of the French ■ultimatum, with new pro
positions to the Britifti cabinet, there remains fome |
glimmering hopes of peace. It is alio mentioned, that!
the ambassador at London has received positive orders J
cot to quit until the Britifti order him to leave the coun- j
try.
‘ll o’clock at night.
Nothing more intereffing known as yet....exprefles
are expelled from Paris, with the news that hollilities
kavejjcommenced.
Pcjiscript of a letter from Bordeaux , dated ijl May.
“Since writing the above, intelligence has been J
received in town, Hating that the negociations of Mr.
Munro go in on fine train. It is now certain that France
cedes 1 ouifiana to the United States, on condition that
(he fettle the claims of her Citizens again ft. this Country,
and pay in addition three Millions of Dollars to this Go
vernment. The channel through which I had this infor
mation can be depended on; and I believe it is not gene
rally known.”
OF WAR—AGAIN.
Captain Brown, who arrived at Salem, on the ytli
inff. from Hamburgh, spoke on the 16th May, the
brig Nancy, capt. Ward of Bolton, who left Liverpool
the Bth of May. Capt. W. informed capt. B.
that the day he left Liverpool it was briskly reported
that England had a&ualiy declared war again & France.
~\\v report this news as we received it, and leave our rea
ders to put their own conftrjetioa upon it.
The brig Mary, captain Moulton, arrived at New-
York, on the 7th inff. from Havre-de-Grace, (he left
there on the 28th of April at which time preparations far
war were carrying on in France, with much activity.
Orders had been received at Havre on the 26th to have
•the forts and batteries put into the boil (late of defence, j
and for that purpose all the (hip carpenters and caulkers J
in the city were held in requiiition by the government.
A heavy impress of seamen had taken place, and the
fleet was said to be nearly manned. About 20 gun-boats,
which left Havre for Dunkirk a few days before capt.
M. faded, and put back on account of adverse winds:
others were equipping with all possible expedition capt.
Moulton is the bearer of dispatches for our government
from Mr. Munro.
Hard wit ke ioth May, ISO3.
THE fubferihers, that they may have it in their
■power more < tfeclivdy to attend Chronic and Surgical
•Cafe*, have provided fome room adjoining their (hep
.at Hardwlcke, where nine or ten patients may be
accommodated at a time. I his effab'.ifhrmnt whi
piove advantageous to the owners of Negroes as well
the patier.’.s; as better attention evil he given ?nff
u dollar a mile per visit fayed, and double at night.
Charges comrorn-urate with trouble anti expense onl}
intended to be m^de.
M. Burke
64 j ohn f. Jenkins.
Take Notice,
THAT after the expiration of nine months from
this date application will be made to the honorable
Inferior Court cl Bulloch County for leave to fell two
hundred acres ot land in laid County ou Nevels’ ertek
a ‘.joining lands of ’"David Williams and Jeremiah
JVlalpafs, being a part of the real effate ot James \\ est,
deccaied, for the Benetic of the heirs and creditors.
‘James Cafusel/, Adniinijlraiir.
June 9th ISo S. p3t 71
D OCU M N T S
ACCOMPANY TSC THE
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS ,
o N THE
GEORGIA MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY,
Ceded to the United States.
( Continued. J
DAVID GLF.V, (worn, faith, that be wen”
tiown to Augusta during the lad fefilon o r
the legiflatU! ‘, whilfi: the r& for the file of
wdtern binds was under the del beration of
the aflcrnYly, rbtt !e pur up with
rr. Wilkin! >n and :nr. Sh operd, two me n
!v*rs of the gen ral afcmhlv, ac rrr. ?vl‘Tver’s
in Augulb : tha: i.e frequrnrlv talked with
vr. \Y.;inGw on that L.ojehl, and advi c i
him not. to agree to icil it, for ir wrtiM burr
hiS popui strict ; trial rhe tud VVtlk’mfon id !
ic w th i not, tor rfur h* Thought it was h-ffb. i
That after the tiq-onciu found ifir i -.no would j
be ‘old, he was ffefirons m yer part tjF i*, tnd !
-judied to it r. Cox, one of the rruficts in one j
* 0 r.pany, to know if he eon and get ; that j
or. lux t dd the deponent he could not. fori
that all the Ha ares wrre taken >u> • t'vo'he’
then applied to the \ i;d Rennen W GiUon to!
know if he could per him r. pur, v/?to fijd he j
would and ci ! ’e r the c he- onert fvve a(n ut*,
vhkh was in the runic of the f.roi R iuen
VV dk: n ion, anlv- as ft >r a!>ou r twe*u y- Av• * n
thouland y.cT s or tritve.;oonr, raop- ff to a de- I
-uction 1 ticaad fu r rher Jait.h. that!
he Irccuundv ; e.rd Keub-n \V 1 ’kin!bn (ay,;
•Peer the leciijuu r rob', *h \t h fi ; o\!d -r sk*- j
a great deal of rnonev by that rvaf.ire ; r!u r i
during the liLirng of tne re-iifLi ua tir. L ukt. i
tirect h cquendy urged thn deponent to try to j
prevail on nr. another me oher, to |
go home —the deponent: i hd he coni 1 not in- 1
iluence rnr. Nhe;)per't • th* depomnit under-’
itooj and believed that the laid L,angfifec?!
w illed c> get mr, Sheppcrd to £0 ho ne, to I
prevent him vodng againil the ihie of the!
la.ids ; that he like wife had a con verb* cbm j
with mr. W ik’ don, who also asked the dr-!
ponent if Fdvroperd would not go home. The I
deponent anfwcrcd he did not know When !■
Wilkmion replied, by God, I wish Ire woold j
i ire deponent further faith, that before the |
iliembly role, and before the governor Bpried ‘
the bril, he the laid Wilkii.fon ihowed° dm I
deponent two written certificates., far four I
iiiares each, or for a certain number o‘ sees,
the deponent does not prec.fely recollecl, l
which Bid certificates did not mend n that!
any lu.ll was to be paid for them, dh. y w>t • |
ligned by Nathaniel Pendleton, chetirmao :
rie believes, that afterwards the Did Waikin j
lon snowed the •deponent two printed cert fi j
cai.es from the l ennedee company, one from ‘
tlie Georgia company, for fifty-fix rhouianc
acirts, iigiied by jii.es Gunn, Matthew.
lVlnAlinter, and George Walker, he believes,
and two printed certificates from tV Georgia j
MiiTiflipi-d company ; that-the IkLl W •ik ; nfbc t
informed the deponent the fiifi two written !
certificates had oten rfiven no, and that hr!
nad received tue lau two printed ones in tieu I
thereof. (Signed)
DAVID GLEN.
S.rorn to, as afore said.
Robert Flournoy, efq. bemg an d sworn,
faiili, th..: M -tut i;-ft icilion of the iggiila ikc
bnoro the !?Jt, he’ made - ..n acquaintance with
judge Fendbeon .5 that the said judoe Feud!e
ton contemplated and made propofols \o the
legislature to pure hall- a part of the vacant
territory ; that he then offered the deponent a
iharc, provided the oufmefs faeces led—Fuu
not being the cab, the deponent attended at
the Inc letTion, when that lubiect came on rhe
carpet again, i hat then Wiliiaro Longstreet
called on tdeponent one morning, at his
lodgings* and informed him that he, the de
ponent, was let down for a Hi are of 75,000
acres, in the Georg a company } that the de
ponent was informed dnat he was set down by
the influence ot general Gunn : the deponent
further faith, that the meetings of the Georgia
Miflilsippi company were held ar. the depo
nent’s quarters ; that he was prelent at Fame
of their meetings, and during the paflage of
the act for the difpofd of the we hern lands,
he thinks genera; Gunn lent lor the deponent,
and ?fked him if he was intimate with Henry
Mitchell, e(quire, a lenator from the county
of Warren. The deponent aniftered he was.
Gen. Gunn then requeued the deponent to pc
.0 him the laid Mitchell, and propofb to him
o take a lh me of 75,000 ac;es ot the lands,
on the fan e terms of the other purchasers, and
at the lame time to urge him to vote for fcil
ing the land : the fa id Gunn mention and that
captain Raines had a lhare of 56,000 acres or
thereabouts, who was a brother-in-law to mr.
Mitchell, but that mr. Mitchell (hould have a
Gaare exclusive of that. The deponent die
make such a proposal, which mr. Mitchell re
fufed. The deponent further faith that the faL
general Gunn requeited him at iome time du
ring that iefiaon, and before the b.ll for felling
tiie land was palled, to go to Roberts Thomas
a member or the feiute from Hancock county,
r . . 3
or but he was fearful lie did not intend to bt
uniform, for he vvjs afraid the fellow was
fiighier.ed, or words of that nature; that the
deponent did call on n r. Thomas for that
ourpoie, who told him t.hat he meant to be
unborn. The deponent, afier the rising o r
Me legislature, fnv the Did Thomas in tnt
tr- e sos Augusta, when the said Tiiomas
made this observation— ‘ c They blame me
for lpecuh-tion, now I v.fii fpcculate, FiO r
noy, you have been Ipecuht ng all vour 1 re
and 1 VY.II make more money ;n 1 years than
you have .m i<(e in vour w hv>e life.” The de
ponent replied, [ believe you have made aioie
•n two month's, or ads dme.
(S-gne i) R. Floitrmov.
S'.rcr.i to as aforefaid.
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XO .D .Y MOAVIVG, joKS-ai, ISor.
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’ e have oiten a,.e; C.il that die politics of the
jet rat party were not rcpnb.vart in v.vv sense of the
word as I’lidcrftocd in the L’nited States; that the
principles t.iey 1 ioported tended to moiinrekv, ariffo
erncy or a government containing all their effentir.lly
pcnne.ous part;. l licfc principles; when applied to their
party during the continuance of their power in the
general government, and at present in the few slate
gove'mmeats where they pn dominate, are precisely
‘thofe of cur revolutionary tories, except that they are
applied at home. Democracy in every shape has been
and is, ridiculed, although the .government of the Uni
ted States* cannot be other wife claHiffed. Some tell you
they mean Jnnpie democracies or the government imme
diately wielded by the nnfs cf people ; but why and earn
of ad ; pg which does not, cannot and never will exile;
wiiien no man in his fenics is fool enough to wifn for;
and which there is not the moll and, it ant probability will
ever be attempted in experiment. It is tlie present con
stitutions cf the general and Hate governments, which
are the objefis, and which are deemed tolerable onlv
from poTeifmg a portion of ariffocratic and monarchic
principles. Os late they find these are not fufficient.
We have heard numbers of individuals make these
declarations; but a more accurate, becaufc more exten
•five, enteric; a of judging may be found.
It will liar ly be ncceifary to fay, that rnen gene
rally app ove of the political principles of those they
support as public and of the newspapers
they patronize.
John Adams’ declaration that the Britiffi conffitu
tion was “ the mod (lupendous fabric of human wis
dom,” and his regret that the United States had not
“ rendered their system of balances cumDiete by crivinp*
to the president an absolute negative on both houses of
con rcis.” are known to every individual who has. feeu
jin booK. Yet Mr. Adams was actually elehlcd oreli
dent by the Ldcraliffs., with the knowledge of his ’po
litical principles.
Alexander Hamilton is well known to be monarch iff,
yet he is the head of the party.
Other im'lances might be cited but thoug’i the
number of those who, among the public ch ■ rafters of
the feds, advocate the fame principles is not fmail, few
so puolicly declare themselves. We (hall therefore onL
notice the judicial declaration of Chafe, that every coun
try where the petfo a an ! property was protected was
free let its form of government be what it would, and
that the best protectors or property were the rich or
holders of it.
Let us now proceed to the public papers, and fir it
tin CENTINEL, B'Jion.
Here we had a writer laying down what he calls
correct principles of government, and which he declares
to be tiiofe of Y/afhington and Adams, in the fe-ilowhnr
•> “it)
manner:
“ Mr. Russel-t—The maxims ard reflections of
eminent men, in the economy of life r.ud government, have
made deep inrp r eiEons on the mind of mankind, in all
ages and countries-. It is ln*d of La Rochafoucatilf,
who lived in the lixteenth century,that his maxims accus
tomed the French people to think, morally, and the poli
tical feSeXions ot many American fare:, are held in hi yh
veneration as rules of conduX in every country —except-
ing their own. T was infenhbly led into these reflexions,
on reading .in a hie of late French papers, forne of the
official documents they co tain, i have'underfcored fue’h
passages as in my opinion contained just maxims of mo
rality and government, and have transl Red them for the
Benefit of Inch ns have turned a deaf ear to them, when
they prefer, tecl thcmielven in H't’Jhrgton’s faresveli adJrefs,
and in the Defence of the American Confutations b Tr
Mr, Adams ; but who are in the habit of elteerrnng everv
thing great aud good which flows from the pen oi Buona
parte.
“ In a date paper, entitled, £t A view of the ftaie of
the French Republic,’ 5 lent by Bonn-g ute to the Lcgi-
Ilativc Bodv, on the 22a February lad are the following
which I ca l
Maxims cf Government, and metai refections, ly Bvor.a
pnrt e.
“ Periodical returns of eltX.ons appear to the people
as fpectres of diicord. Patriotism has call for the coniul
ate for life being granted to the magiilrate. The grant
may be appreciated by its cfleX. As icon as the lirfl
magiilrate was declared for hie the Frem h people
began to confide in their deftinv—property began to re
lume its former value ; and {peculations ot distant view;
to be multiplied. Until then, every tiring seem to feat
in uncertainty. The present moment was cherished ; the
next was a fubjcX cf alarm, ar.dthe enemies of the country’
continued to cherifn hopes, bince that moment they’ art
reduced to impotence and to detestation.”
“ Principles mull sometimes bend to the imperious
necelTity of circumflances.”
“ i uxuit is the aliment of manufactures. The ebange
fulnefsof taste ; the mutability offaftiions, is their life.—
it is luxury which gives motion to an immenie popula
tion, which without that encouragement, mull loic itfd:
in corruption and misery.”
V hat principle of our government would net be
elections were fpectres of and fcord.” But it is *iAfi
rj’ to enlarge on the maxims herein contained *, c-
Jone of which is deadly enmity to repbiicanifm
The following queries lately appeared in tlu'l p
their objed mav he readily appreciated. /*.
2d. The New- * erk GAjETTrt.
1. What are the particular advantages of ehrrt’a *
chief magiilrate for a certain tern or years,aw cr ibA
havuig* one by hereditary fuccdfion ?
2. When the peoph of the United States q 1 ’Vrt 1
with thole of Grcat-ILituin, was it on uti.'ar;
ot a form of government ?
3. WhPc is the preedit i<lea which ought to be n A -'d
to a r-'pubbean tonn <u
4. \> liercin docs the benefit ot liavmy a written co
ibtntion couliff ?
Does 1 lift or y (how that republics arc less apt than m. v 4
archies to enter into a war ?
6. Are trequent tleclious <>i real ier*iCe to a nation J
7 Do popular cle£lions generally eniure the bed ru v ;
qu defied to manage tlie afibivs of flute i
8. h\ hicn is mo l dangerous in a government tin;
Branch immediately chosen by the people, or that removed
to fome dill race from their vo-ce ?
9. What is meaning affixed to the phrase “ Sovereign
1) . V ° °
i eople :
10 V- hether does democracy or limited monarchy 9
afford the moil (ecurity lor life, liberty and property ?
11. His not democracy aim oil invariably ended in
tyranny or despotism . ?
12. Have not the men who talked continually about
liberty and the rights of nun, always deilroyed these
whenever the opportunity was oft ere ! to them ?
13. V. hen a union o; church and date is mentioned#
what ivS to be underflood by it ?
14 Is it wife and Just to extend the right of inffrage
perions who have little or no r-ouertv and intcreil in,
. ±4
the community l
A QITERI3T.
3d. PORT-i Ot 10.
In the following paragraph, we not only find out?
government unequivocally characterized as a democracy#
but it is 1 cclared that it is on its trial here, and that
its i{i ue will be civil war, desolation and anarchy: and
in the pious hope that his prophecy will be real!foil, th©
writer goes on to call on “every brave man to draw”
hie (word againfl its force.” fT
“A Democracy is fcarccly tolerable at anr period oai
national hiflory. Its omens arc alwa s (inifler, and it
powers are unpropitious. With all the fights of ex
perience, blazing before om* eyes it is impofiible not to
tiifcern the futility of this form of government. It wai
weak and wicked in Athens. It was bad in Sparta, ami
worle in Rome. It has been tried in France, andL
terminated in despotism. It was tried in England, and
rejedled with the utmoff loathing and abhorrence. Itia
on its t; al here, and the iffne will be civil war, desola
tion and anarchy. NO wife man hut difeerns its im
perfections, no good man but (liudders at its miseries, no
honed man but proclaims its fraud, and no brave mail
but draws his (word again!! its force. The mflitution
of a scheme of policy, lo radically contemptible and vi
cious is a memorial example of what the villainy of fome
men can devise, the folly of others receive, and botli
eflabhfti, in despite of reaion, refletfiion and fe.nhtion.”
Vv 7 e might goon to cite several ollur indances#,
but it is unnecessary, Ihe bodility of the above pai*a
grapn cannot be exceeded, and this has been copied
into the “ True American” in Philadelphia, the Charles
ton Courier,” and several other paperes. The Charles
ton Courier is, indeed, little behind the Britiffi papers
in its principles, and no won ‘er, for it is said that iti
editor is a pensioner of the Britifti court, paid for the
express purpose of obtaining for them an influence iu
the southern dates.
We trud our fellow-citizens will not longer be de
ceived ; tlut they vvil reflect that the men who openly*
feoff at the right 9 of the people, cannot be their faftfl
guardians.
u
T> e feJi-ranjls have boa fled much upon what they pre
tend to File an increase of fedcralifn in Mafiathufctts, at.
their late election of state officers. Ha ikon himfelf it
is supposed was deceived by their empty boastings. For*
i > con ft mice of tliere having been a mighty change ia.
this date, from the present administration, to the advocates,
or the former, he Mowed His trump and rallied the whole
body of f-ileralifis in N. York, to forge the firft link of
a chain that was to encircle and bind down the citizens
ofthefe flutes. The re fait of his attempt to forge -
the firjl link, has however terminate J in want of frefli
hands at the billows.
To prove that the Republicans, instead of the federal-*
ids have gained an advantage in this state will be only ne
cessary to look to the men that have been eleXed of late*
For Governor and Lt. Governor, the republicans in fomc
parts of the state contested, in other parts of the state
there was scarcely any opposition to thc.fe that govimn
ed lad year; therefore vve are not to judge by tk votcn
that were given in for either of those officers. The Senate
and Houle of Reprefentaives, are what we are to budget
by ; and in both of those branches we {hall find that.,
there lias been a hand fume increase of republicanism lii
the fen ate, last j ear t-.e republicans had but 1® vote:**
this year 12 ; thus in the senate 2 members have bee’
added to tiie republican lift, and in the house of r;pr
sentatives it is acknowledged by’ almost every one that .j”
inreeafe of republican members has been about 25, a ,
feme of those ha%’e been elected in oppolition to so r
the moil active, and influential federal members O ‘F
hiil court. This statement is correct, and the pe 1
judge from faXs whether the republicans or federal T
have reason to rejoice at the issue of the late e’ -cFions *
. J ’ :s etteer
AMERICAN ANIVERS^
Those who wish to celebrate the , + l 1 c ▼
* 1 • *i * , • 1 4 th darof Jeri!f
next, being the twenty-eighth ‘tar * 1 i T
• r j - r , Hi/lLliCAi* Is
I'F.PEMDEVCE, are informed that Jid c. ‘_.•
left at the following places . r ~ ri
At the Coftee-Hcufe, at Mr . c* _ .
at job T. Bowles’s, at the 9 .'mZ ‘ £ , *>
and , . , • , r r -jmblicau puating-cffice,
and , at >" Columbian Mufeur , 6Sce . rjfe (c bq
at tne Exchange.
garden x saront.
,T!iU excUka: tra.'t of LAND contaliilnv |- CJ
U-’he luMcriber. dll
■ decl ... .I,t-afl, .}, *mbe an O HR to. nor
confers to to y grward. l>la Mn)ay hr Ln, anti
t.cu.srs ..nut’ i. oyspi.y,r.<T{,
GbNMHAMS Br k r.
Jane u\v s\v, ‘ “4.