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Georgia Republican,
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3TATE IVTEIJUGENCER.
~J?r LTON~and MORSE.
SAVAN %AH, August 16, 1803.
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Extraft of a letter from a, gentleman
in Cretnsboroughi to the Editor
of this paper.
“ P* S. Fron the best infor
mation I have received from
those that reside in the Creek Na
tion ,the Indians appear to be per*
fe£tly fatisfied, to give up the lands’
to the Oakmulgee.”
(Public Advcrtifer.)
THE cession of Louisiana has disap
pointed the sanguinary hopes and wilhes of
The federal party and funk into contempt
their boldest conclusions and prcpheci .%
Mad with rage that thfc republican adminis
tration lhould not only have maintained the
aground on which they Hood as the dose of
the latl session ox Congress, but should
have acquired the vail accession of claims to 1
public confidence which is afforded in obtain
ing this extensive country ; evety means in
their power is exerted to destroy the effe£t
which this particular measure is calculated
to produce—nay, to caff odium on a trans
action which contributes more to the glory
and fafety of our nation than, any other
which has occurred in the hiflory of our
nation, since our revolution.
When the purchase was firft contempla
ted, we saw them endeavouring to enhance
the price by avowing the alue of the coun
try and its natural advantages to, be so great,
that forty millions would be a trifling consi
deration for it. It is probable that the
French government possessed better infor
mation on the fubjeCt of that country than
the wonder wife editors of tory prints ; but
such allegations were calculated to have an
evil effect, since, judging of the public !
fentintent by the public prints, it would !
naturally be thought that we were inclined
to go the full extent named, in the pur
ehafe.
Since the object has been accomplished
for about one third of the fura they would
have been willing to give y and even consider
ed a trifle ; they are pra<ffiling every artifice
to prove in the face of their own declarati
ons, that we have given too much.
Mr. Livingston in his memorial, remarks
On the inexperience of the citizens of France
m cultivating new lands, the impolibilitv of
extended cultivation without llaves ; the
facility with which these can fubiiff in a
warm climate in cate of deferring their plan
tations ; the danger and fatal consequence
of an infurreCtion to an infant settlement at
a diilance from the source of protection ;
the coniiderable capital necessary to be laid
Out in their purchase with a diffant profpedt
of return, which would not only take from
the capital of the natign, but if vetted in
colonial property, would be productive of
equal avantage and greater fecurty in the
already cultivated illands. He then alks
“ who (of French citizens) will cultivate
Louisiana with flares V* Coleman will
have it that either Mr. Livingston has
“ consented to turn the dignified character
of American minilter at Paris into that of
a petty chapman, and taking advantage of
the ignorance of the firft consul and of all
his court, has attempted to beat him down
in his price or “he is yet to learn how
it becomes such an immense acquisition, as,
that, fifteen millions of dollars should be
deemed a cheap purchase.”
Intending a further notice of Mr. Cole
man's illiberal remarks under this head, it
may fuffice for the present to fay, that \that
may be trueai reipeds the circuir.itances
in which Trance is placed, will not hold as
it reipeds America j and that its relative
iltuatiou is no finall part of its value.
Another mode of lessening the weight cf
this ceflion, is by milrepreienting its extent,
thus preparing the public mind for a dif
appointinent of which advantage will be
taken. Our fellow-citizens ought, there
fore, to be on their guard against flatements
on this fubjed originating with the opposi
tion, whole j malevolence incites them to
adopt any means to accomplish their pnr-‘
pofos. This disposition probably gave rife
to the following, winch firft appeared in
the NcwA ork Gazette ;
“ IMPORTANT. —The following let
from an officer ot the government, was
vefterday received by a gentleman of this
city, dated.
IVc. [king! on, fuly 15, ISo 3.
“ The J vOuifiaaa treaty arrived last night- j
The price is ffteen millions , three hundred
thousand dollars , payable, ten millions, and
a quarter in negocieWe paper of the United
States, redeemable in fifteen years, which
sum is to go to the French government ; the
balance ;s to cover demands of ou r citizens
for French fpoiliations, payable at the
pleasure of the government. The cession is
absolutely to the South sea and the line of
Mexico ; it conve s a territory of one thou- ,
J nd miles :n length by four hundred in breadth ,
and actually includes nL Wejl blondes, and
is ;n all *refped without condition or stipu
lation of any kind in favor of France or any
other nation.”
The treaty is officially stated to ce V the
whole territory and junldidion of Louiliana,’
as Spam pofrjea, and of course, as Spain
ceaed the fame. Ihe memorial ot ivlr.
Livingston does not juilify a belief that this
includes Weft Florida, nor do we at present
believe it, though the “ -officer of govern -
ment ” who would deceive in this manner,
would be unpardonable ; and the man who
would roirge such a letter, would be a viiliaft.
If this country is ours by the treaty with
France, we fliall rejoice that it has exceeded
our expectations ; if it is not, we ihall soon
expedt the intelligence of a treaty with Spain
ceding both that and Fall Florida.
But the paragraph which exhibits the
moil nefarious deligus lomewhere, is the
following.
“ Dispatches from London arrived in
Washington lait Monday or Tuesday. They
were immediately forwarded b, express
to the Prelident, now at Monticello. It is
rumoured in the city, that they bring offi
citl notice from the British government,
that they intended to take poffellion of New-
Orleans and Louiliana, and warning our
government against paying the fifteen mil
lions, purchale moae.. It is wafting time
to make comments on a report so vague and
uncertain as the above, altho’ it appears to
have gained coniiderable credit. Should it
be true, our government will be involve j in
much perplexity.”
*Wcfhingteti Federalif, July 29.
If this pretended rumour is well founded,
it is truly alarming, as such a proceeding
would undoubtedly give rife to measures be
tween Great-Bmain and America, very far
fiom j acific. It would exhibit that coun
try fin-palling in infamy all its past tranf
acrions. If unfounded, the the man who
originated such a report, mull have a heart
slacker than sublimated malice. But let us
examine its probabilities.
Gieat-Biitam is supported at present by
her manufactures, for the consumption of
which, no other na.ion in the universe con
tributes an equal portion, wifti the United
States. For the support of these manufac
tures, she receives from the United States*
Upwards ot thirty millions of pounds of the
important raw material, cotton. Is it likely
she would embroil herfelf with a nation, so
important to her commerce and manufac-
Ctnies ; is it pothole she would facrifice their J
support, lubjeCl herfelf to their eternal ha
tted by opening a refh wounds scarcely
healed ; throw them into the arms of her
already too powerful rival ; and force them
to tui n their own manufacturers ? No ; it is
impoflible that such ma ffiefs can have feizetl
I hei mmiftry ; it is impoflible that she would
j facrifice all the advantages Ihe derives from
our friendfiiip for the bare gain of prevent
ing the payment to I ranee of eleven millions
ot flock. Nay, unfavorable as we think
of the righteousness of her government, we
do not believe it would presume. Xo fan Bi on
luch a measure. Therens, beiides, another
weighty circuinftance. It will be leniem
bered that the firft notice of this cession
bearing the marks of authenticity, which
we obtained here, was a debate in the Bri
lilh Parliament The minitlry undoubted
ly knew that the confederations were pecu
niary, yet we here find it noticed as an
important and beneficial occurrence. We,
therefore do not hefrtate to express our
opinion that this pretended rumour origi
nated 111 the unfeeling and abominable design
of awakening public anxiety j in nefarious
purposes of ipeculation ; or a vvifh to em
broil the two countries who now mutually
profit by their relative lituations, and whole
pacific difpolitions toward each other it is
the filtered, of both to perpetuate.
For the Georgia Republican.
Mejfrs. Lyon Cs* Morse ,
In your late Gazette fome remarks on
the means of promoting the health and im
provement of Savannah, were laid before
you. Among the calamities incident to
mortality, the deprivation of health is
surely affli&ive } but mixed with the evils
exilting in every community, the contami
nation ot public morals is perhaps the great
eil misfortune that can happen to any and
particularly to a young nation. In a period
lhort of 200 hundred years since this vast
continent was firft trod bv those we are
taught to call civilized, it *has rapidly ad
vanced and continues with immense strides
advancing through all the fuceeffive grada
tions of labour, wealth, population, luxury
and vice. The confluences of a relaxed
Hate of morals are dreadful when we view
the rife and fall of ever)- other nation that
once had any claim to freedom. In all ‘
governments vice is essentially injurious, but
particularly fi> in one like ours purely repub
lican, where from the number of her fer
vantsit is absolutely necessary they should
all be virtuous. Corruption in private life
is odious but when it effea? -public bodies r
the gangrene tiiat enfuea* affiicls every
member of the commonwealth and its free
dom and happirels are destroyed.
1 lie utility of the frequency popular
eledliens is thus clearly demonilrated, by a
peaceable recurrence to this constitutional
weapon the corrupt member is cut off. and
the health of the remaining fvftem secured,
wmereas in governments whose chief majef
tracy is not elective, hereditary corruption
mult accumulate inherited vice acquired by
the contagion of example, nourished by the
connection of its permanency. The peo
ple groaning under the evds that infue,
have nO prospect cf redress but by popular
commotion and all its evils follow. State
trials, efial war,’ malTacre, hatred and con
fufion. 1 ,ie great jealous of his power,
tearful of his doom, employs all the ranco
rous measures cf executive vengeance
against his affixed and insulted people .
1 hey goaded by political torture, try to
ameliorate their fufferings* while-from the
wnetched system that enfkves them, they
only embitter and ftio.ten their career.
happy, indeed for America that her
conftitutioTi of'govcrnmerit secures her po
pular aud ntquent election, it ensu r es her
at least the remedy of easily removing r.
magi ft racy that the contagion of vicious ex
ample has induced to become corrupt.
I*or the Georgia Republican.
A few’ days past a great bustle was cVe
ated among the Pig-owners, but they may
now remain easy and fafe concerning their
Pigs, it was only intended to make known
that something like authority existed, when
difpefed to a*st, the like has been done
sundry times before, never n)iud, it will
only cost one pig every year, and that will
fail to the lot or only one among the nume
rous pig-owners ; from what w r e witueis
every day we may auger vast benefits to be
derived from the wisdom of our Police.
I his observation puts me in a humor to fay
a great deal, but recollecting that much has
been fa;d and nothing done, I refer mv ob
fervatiens to future hopeful rimes. What
a pity that the city of Savannah for which
nature las done so much, should be 11C
gle&ed by art ; yet it is said a number of
artful nen over-rule it.
It is the opinion of good judges that this
fame city will become the relidence of the
moll wealthy Carolina Planters independent
of ours; & ilrange as it may appear to pre
sent cilltom, many from various parts will
repair for health, during the Summer
season, to the healthy city of Savannah.
Query what encouragement exists at this
present monjent to lay such a foundation to
our future riches ; pray tell me, it will de
termine the future exiftenee of
’ f *
Tour fincerc friend*
HOPE.
ajEaia
The Editor of the National LEgis has un
fortunately become the vidtim of federal ap
plause. This gentleman taking a view of
the King of England’s manifefto, declares,
“on the the\ehote that he perceives much
irritation in the measures of the French
government.” We with to know whether
this editor has ever seen the declaration by
France, or whether as several federal edi
tors w r ould not publilh it, because itexpof
ed the fallacy of British reasoning and the
falfities of fome of their affertiona, so the
Editor of the may have gi veil it a per
ufal, but haflily made tap an opinion, for the
fake of learnedly displaying his knowledge
of the declarations of Merton. * The copy
from which we quote fays curing the impor
tant (we presume impotent is meant) ‘reign
of Henry 3d-, the Parliament of England
were required to change the law relative to
Bastardy, that one borne before marriage
might inherit, in like manner as he that is
born after matrimony, and that all the Earls
and Barons with one voice made the famous
declaration “ that they would not change
the laws of the Realm, which have hitherto
been used ancj approved. ’ After this hon
orable resistance (lavs the jEgis) to the will
of an imperious fovtfeign, could the First
consul of Fra:lcerbelieve, that a British Par
liament would hiimb e and degrade them
lelves by facrificing the liberty of the press
to his afpirirtg Sc vindictive temper ? j lius
the liberty of tlie press, is to be contended
for in England and altho’ not a paper is now
published in 1 or.uon which dares freely to
examine and manfully to inveftigaie the
measures of their own adrnir.iflration, yet a
paper is to be fanftioned an ‘ supported by
all the friends of that adminiitration. pub
lished in a language, whieh the people of
England cannot read, for the purpose ol dif
feminationr in France, and when it becomes
too glaring, a f rce of prosecution is to be
carried on, the culprit fined in court, and
the adminiitration and its friends left to the
difficult difeovery of how tec lufferer is to
be remunerated. But to go back to Mr.
Blake'§ declaration of the British Barons—
we fliall admit with him, that j- l as much
patriotifin and virtue exists now in the Ell
- government as did then ; but no-more.
We have no deubt but the prelent Parlia
ment will alrnstt unanimoufiy unite, as did
their pred&cdfors, as soon as the queition
fairly becomes fliall loaves and times exiii at
all or not, tho ? th eynever did nor never
could unite, as to which ot the parties should
have the management of them; so Mr.
Blake’s great Patriots did not oppefe the
exacting sboo5 boo Marks from the city of Lon
don, or the Robbery by the King of his bro
ther Rhfhartl’s estate, the forcing of 20,000
markes from the Jews, and 4 Marks of
gold and |coo of silver from one Jew of
York, which he expended in a feaft which
he gave confiding of 30,00©, dishes—or the
prohibiting of all commerce in London,
these and many such extortions were not op
posed by the patriot Barons, they did not
effect them, they felt not for the people, but
the moment their v?-ffoaal interests were af
fe&ed, they could come forward as one
man and declare ibemfelves unwilling that
the laws of England should be changed.—
The fail was, that a copy of Juftinians
pande&s had been difeovered in the 12th
century, and occasioned the civil law to be
revived and embraced in the Western parts
of Europe, where it had almost been forgot
ien. It wUe brought into England by The
obald, during the Norman period —and at
tempted to be universally introduced in
vain. The ancient common law flood its
ground, alt o* in the knowledge of the Jus
tinian code, great part of the Literature of
those times confided. It was taught in
the monasteries and universities and in gen
eral the Clergy applie ‘ to it with the ut
most attention, and ohftinately adhered to
the Romiffi in it initio ns which were forbid- j
den by king Stephen ; the’ the clergy af- j
terwards, endeavoured to bring hem into :
general praCtice.-^-The.laitvoppofed them,
as the clergy were the oplv persons acquaint
ed there with, and from them the judges
and inferior officers of the court of j udiea
ture were supplied, to the exclusion of Mr,
Blake’s patriotic Barons; these bast unwil
ling to be deprived altogether of the good
things of government, in the famous parlia
ment of Merton did make use of the expres
sion in the aEgis, and those who could fee
their country plundered, and nearly ruined
by their king, without opposition, when
his infamy affe&ed not themselves, when
their privileges were threatened by the en
croachment of Priests, did then ‘hake a bold \
and luccefsful attempt to support their own
consequence and power. From this lera
Priests gradually withdrew from the muni- j
cipal courts and at lehigth it was Ordered I
that they should not appear as advocates, nor !
did they long after ad as judges, the office j
of chancellor excepted.
Such was the patriotism of those days and ■
exadly like it is that of the British Parlia-i
ment in these. It is very unfortunate, j
that from the Enghfh papers, the principal j
part of American papers are made. The !
tederalifts of course copy without a single *
remark, what they know was written the j
governmental tools in England, and the re-!
publican papers are lubject to nearly equal i
culpability. Even the name of a paper is
seldom given, and an ex trad is rfiade with
as much readiness from the Times, The
Sun or the True Briton , as if either of those
papers deferred the least title to impartiali
ty or truth. Hence we have much to Jif
cover in the dark. But from all we can
learn in the miierable juggle which has been
played oft by Pitt, Windham, Grenville,
Addington, Hawkefbury, Melville, &c See.
It muff appear that Great Britain, since Ihe
ligned the Peace of Amiens, has not con
ducted herfelf so as to conciliate with Buon
aparte. Had that been her design she would
never have retained tlie present ministry.—-
Men who applauded the character given of
the First Consul by the late ministry. It
is true the Peace was a disadvantageous fine
to England, but she wanted it and it was
her duty to have submitted to it. Let us
alk what does England go to war for, Malta
they have—France then if diflatisfiecl ought
to have gone to war The truth is England
dare not to speak ‘out, she dare not fay—
that she cannot competite in times of Peace
with the resources & energies of the French
Republic—but can ihe do it in time of war ?
We think she may, ( tor a time at least)
but it will be only by employing all her
naval force in blockading her enemies ports,
and if she attempts diilant expeditions or in
vasions, she will dlftraCt and ultimately
weaken that force. This kind of warfare
will not fatisf; the Englilh nation, and the
national debt operates heavily against her,
long ago it was forefeen that it would be
her rum, but the progreis she has made in
labor faring machinery, and the goo mess of
her Roads and Rivers, have enabled her not
only to contend with the evil, but to those
who are not in the habit of reasoning closely
appear to have converted it into a benefit.
England like a young merchant in high cre
dit, has anticipated her means, and wafted!
in 100 years what she ought to have
expended in a thousand. Thus she has
made all her creditors rich, the mass of her
fubjeCts wretchedly poor. “ I believe (said
an Englifb Mirnfter, to whom chriftianity
is indented for much learned as well as zea
lous support, in a letter dated Hackney, 3d* <
January, 1798) from my foul, that within
three miles ot the Hoilfe, where I am wri
ting these pages* there is much greater
number of starving miserable human beings,
the hopeless victims of penury and distress
than on any equal portion of the ground,
through the habitable world.” But the!
riches of her creditors consists in paper only,
and wife are they who properly view her
lituation and secure in the United States
fufficieirt for their future ease and comfort.
But although Great Britain might protract
the war to a great length, yet the pcffibiii
ty of an invasion is now pretty generally
admitted. True when General Lloyd flrit
pubiiihed this idea it was conceived almost
universally ridiculous but it has been since
examined and it is now in parliament talked
of not only as a thing poffibk but even
probable and should it happen we think it
mult be fuccefsful.
We all recollect the edthtlfiafirr with
which the French minister was received in
London, and can we believe that those rnen
would fight for their King, would risk their
lives for him, when no Lhance can make
them worse off, than they now are. En
gland as was wifely observed by Lord Stan
hope is not an agricultural Country.—
W hetherit be owing to her paper monev,
to her commerce to her manufactures, or to
all put together, certaio it is that she does
not grow enough for her own consumption
of grain aud that the confumpti ya thereof
by Horses .every day increases. If then an
invasion was to take place, who would risk
his property, even what sanguine Fedtralift,
would lend to Liverpool a ihip loaded with
flout*, if he knew that 4°‘CCO Frenchmen
were in the liland.^—None would do it and
England would be loft, because she had not
food for her inhabitants, and was 1112 even
to fend here for it, who would then tal e
Englilh paper ; an invasion in this point
of view would prostrate England in the dust,
what answers now to her as capital would
be annihilated and like Portugal and V enice
Ihe would fink into ntiferv and infignificance
hut even washer ruin not the natural conse
quence of her debt, the difficulty alone
which Buonaparte will have to contend with,
is, howto get to England, was that accom
plished. in the words of the reverend author
we have just quoted,
“No great expectation can be formed
of Englilh prowels, on its own ground,
with all our fwaggeringpretenfions. by thole
who recollect the adventures of about 9000
j ragamuffin bneechlefs Ltki.r.s from Scotland
j but a few years back—though the Bishop
I of Lan lafi will prove, I ‘oubt not, a feCond
Uiyffcs, at least too many of us, I
fear, will a*as, rtfenlble the Satyrs in
Euripides, who had made loud and boailiul
profeffions of their rCadinefs to afiift the He
ro, in burning the eye of Polyphemus, but
miserably failed in the performance of their
engagement, when the hour ol experiment
was come. Ho but fee, fays one (a light
horfemaa) what ?. long way lam off; Oh ?
what a fuddeu lameness has seized my poof
legs fays another (a supplementary militia
man i aye, and mine two fays a third (a
voluntary cavalier) and these eyCs of mine
exclaims another, (a provincial affbeiator)
j are full of a Ikes, from fome inexplicable
eaufe or ether. The truth is fays a fifth
(alife and fortune man) it is a generis
i compassion for our own bones that fuggetfs
I these excuses reafoning# will doubt
! less apply to many that coniider theffifelves
] of the upper ciaffes of society, of the lower
I more like the ass ; when delired to fly from
J the En£m) with all speed, will alk whe
j ther he will clap two pair of panniers an his
) back and when informed that that is not
J probable, w ilt fee no use of exerting himfelf
1 against a foe which will not burthen him
* more than those he has called his friends ;
; and will declare that to them whether they
I be govessed by a king or a Consul, is all
! moon shine. Many of this difeription
’ would join the French from the love of
| plun er and from the allurements which
j would of course be held out by the French
ton in New-Jerfy, there are mob#, unprinci
pled Banditti who attempt to murder
Individuals and deltroy property, and we
would willingly alk, what depeudance could
any Govenrment place in such heroes, in men
who ddlroyed Dr. Prieftleys house at Bir
mingham, who join Lord Gordon’s mob in
London or those Wretches who hung about
and killed the wheels of Buonaperte’s >Mi*
nifters Chariot when he arrived at the Me
tropolis of the British 1 mpire. No the
monarchy of Great Britain trembles and
soon will fall and perhaps the policy in
her king wculd be to take his departure for
Calcutta*—;lt may however be said that
fome of the Nations in Europe may join
with England, the idea is barely possible
as from the Weakness of Turkey the First
Consul has the means in his power of ei
ther fatisfying the ambition or agitating
with fear every principal Court in Eu
rope.
Literary Advertiser.
From a late Lmdon paper .
Seme naifreprefentations have already
crept into, we believe all the public print#,
refpedtirig the terms of peace infilltmnpon
by the Chief Conlul, one of whicbJP^tes
to a point on which w T e trull no mi., ‘er of
this country will dare ever to yield ; the
1 freedom of the press. We indeed perceive
by the correspondence, that the Chief
Consul has been a little gravelled, by those
difeuffions which have taken place in this
country,refpe<fting fome of his arbitrary pro
ceeding* in his own and other countries ;
but let us atten i to the language of the
Chief Consul himfelf on this fubjedt. In a
persona! conversation withLoid Whitworth’
“ he adverted to the abuse thrown outagainst
him in the Englilh public prints, but thir
he said he did not so much regard, as that
which appeared in the French papers pub
lifiied in London.” In a note of the French
ambassador, dated March 29, in which, ia
anlwer to the complaints of our ministers.
refpe&ingthe freedoms taken by the French,
press he obfervts—“ Those complaints are
of an order too secondary to be capable of
influencing the deci^ions,’ , and after return
ling the compliment, by complaining of the
Englilh press, he adds—“ The First Con
sul did not on that account entertain a
doubt of the continuance of peace, nor
alarm Europe with the notification of war.
He confied himfelf to this principle, to
permit or prevent in France with refped to
England, whatever ftuuid be permitted or
prevented in EngiandwitbregardtoFrance.”
It is not therefore, let it be well understood,
lor our liberties we are going to war ; nor
do we believe, tha* such men a*s ministers,
whatever they may pretend, cared two
pence (the value of their responsibility, as
appreciated by a worthy member of the
House of Commons, Mr. Martin) about the
matter!
With refpeft to the “ confidmhlc'arma
ments going forward in the French ports,”
when his majdty’s melfage was delivered in
March last,” the explanation given by the
French government, mull we, think to all
mpartia/ perfons,appear fatisfa&ory. There
is nothing to diiprove the alfertion that
they were intended, for that they were open
ly profeffed to be—f>r colonial service.
Surely our ministers ought to be strictly cal
led to account for alarming,-and arming
the nation, on such a pretence. The)’ had
indeed fliffered large armaments to proceed
to St. Domingo without complaint.
But what has induced our ministers to de
clare war against France i The rejection of
the following Ultimatum.
The ifiand of Lampedofa, to be granted
us by the King of Sicily. The evacua-