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jflfwry* bthc&dcfcription of per for.s, who furrendcred up their property to the call of the pub lic did not receive ail equiva lent ; they all made facriflees and were all victims to their patriotism in a greater or Id's degree. Can any mans feri ou fly contemplate a reimburf u*cnt of these losses or com pensation ift* these facrifices ? ‘The attempt is impracticable, however de Arable, it is entire ly bey ond the abilities of this counrry. Vlr. Smith in reply to Mr. bgwick laid there was a wide difference in his opinion be tween perfonat ferviccs and thofc which had been men riorwl. While the fokhcr waswighting the battles of his country for a pittance, andfuf- Urihg all the evils incident to his destitute and hazardous lit nation, his merit was infinitely superior to that of the farmer who fold his corn or his ox for paper money, or that of the merchant or mechanic who took the paper for the purpos es of fpe ulation. , Mr. i lillhoufe said he tho’t it very extraordinary that the gentleman from Maryland ihould bring forward a charge { speculation agamic the per ibns who took paper money, . niyfl clafles of peopie took itvo funtayily for a long time. The change'involved all the funds of the revolution, for unlcfs they had given it a currency, the Caufc would have been 1011. But this was not all. Did not the dates make tender la os .to compel the people to mkfrbh wv. a- tKfTtHoi• lanes ruined by it : thousands of as good friends to the revolution as any defeription of persons v hatever. He saw no good ptirpofe to be answered by ifich comparisons.. Mr. Smith (N. H.) said he conceived that the two gentle man who had lately ipoken (Mr. Smith Maryland, and Mr. Nicholas) did not under- Hand the fubjeefc.—Thefe gen tlemen had blendedtuo things, which Ought to be kept separ ate and diilind, viz. the en gagement on the part o-f con gress to give half pay to the officers, who Ihould serve to the end of the war which was ► agreement com nnuted for 5 years whole pay, ” and the engagement to give a pen lion to fuch’ officers as should have the misfortune to be wounded or otherwiie difa bleci in the service. Mr. Smith considered these engage ments as referring to two dif ferent claffesof men, viz. able and found men, and invalids ; thole of the former defeription who Ihould continue in the lervice to the end of the war ivere promised half pay for liie. I hole who were disabled in the service were allowed to lttiie upona pension—no man was obliged against his will to be placed on the pension ef tablifliment; end the fact was, that numbers ot officers who were wounded either from pa triotic motives, or other views eliol'e to be considered as found and at>le men , &c. received the emoluments of such, fall pay and the commutation-^.. Columbian Wuleunt, : &c < they could not surely conplain that they, tho’ disabled. were ltlll allowed the cmolupeife” of abled bodied and found men —but they cannot be the fame time of bothdiferipiions, both able and difablec. If the journals or acts of the go vernment were examined, Mr. Smith was confident that this would be found to be the fenle of the government, if a(i of ficer had the misfortune to be wounded in the service he might retire ; and* receive the reward promised to thedifi ed cd; if he chose to s 4Htin.ue in the service as an abic men, and the public were plea fed to permit him to do so and ac cept of his ferviccs as fucic he was at liberty to continue^nd receive the emoluments of the able officer who served thro’ the war. * Mr. Smith threw these ideas out for the confideratioii of gentlemen, & should be oblig ed y* chose who would set him right, if he was wrong—he conceived that it was not the intention of gentlemen to take the queition immediately, for the usual hour of adjournment had arrived, he moved that the committee rife and report pro gress. A UGT A, February 11, Among ail the events that have been known iir the present age, none deserves t hat of memorable more t han that which )ys lately happened ; md to divest an cient hiitory of its fables, perhaps none ever superior. We mentioned in our la*ft, that a bill v/a:, before the legislature for repealing the contracts entered into by the pre ceding legifHmre, for part of tl x w’ef- ‘“mg palled both houks, or) t aturday'W, received the executive signature, and has thereby become a law of the land— (if it is not improper to call that a law, which cannot possibly have any opera tion.) By this repealing aft, the con tract with the companies, although car ried into full effeit, is declared *0 be null and void, and the law authorizing and making the contract is within three days after pairing the act ordered to be publicly burnt, and the records refpec ing the said contract to be expunged ; agreeably to which regulation we arc informed, that the two .houses on Mon day lad, moved in prcceffton to the fun eral pile, prepared in front of the Hate house, preceded by. their committee, bearing in their arms the records of tire weltern sale ; when arrived at the fatal spot, the committee handed the records to the president of the senate, the presi dent handed them to the fpeaker of the house, the fpeaker to the clerk, aad he to the door keeper, who with coolness and firmnefs of mind laid the derated victims on the burning pile, where they , were soon consumed to allies, very little to the fatisfa&ion of the by-itanders. But ’tis feared, that Phoenix like, from the allies of these records will %ing forth a record that (hall render immortal the infamy and disgrace of this pil’ga torial tranfaftion. The reasons for these new proceed ings arc attempted to be aifigned in the preamble to the ad—but these rearm* are L | many well informed men fay to be unlatisfadory, audit has been aiffm ed that the legislature have attempted to exercise a power not warranted byjrea fon, jultice or common sense, and t-ital ly repugnant to-the principles of Mo rality and government : And the re peal law tis said, cannot produce;the intended effeft; for the companies lav ing obtained regular and legal gjfnts for their lands, and the contrast hating been compieatiy carried into effeftiby both parties, cannot be affeded byjthe lnbfcquent eondud of either; andidie repeal, could it have any effed, nr t have a tetrofpedive operation, and cone within the denomination of .\nex-bji jttciu law, and conlequently wouldjoe void in itfelf. hat the violence of this mcaAire, gives very hneaiinds,) and many who were not in principle ootofed to a repeal, hitherto been deemed faded, Wangled, defaced and bumfjMth fchtal- boy incor.fideration, and the hea; nl spirit offaftion. Ant. as this hcajri violence orHy tends to feta very# In serous example, and cannot poffibly* \IJ ucc any good, it will occaJion.fhil 1 to become far more unpopular, that \ one which was the object of this uilp cedented proceeding. If the Ft w cli operate at all, the operation* vTOlild been the fame without, as with the butl ingand mangling of records. It tl burning a record, by a law which recol ni/.es the instrument dell/oycd, could q away the effed of the regarded inilri tnent ; then the.properties <*f indivhii j if ■, als are totally iniecure, and a predom 1 nant pasty might render all private pc4| feflions precarious; and if the Yazz< A law was unconflitutional, neither bun 1 inn; nor I'pealing were necessary, as4ix| law in itfelf,was wholly void. AcS hwpe and trull this dreadful Cxatr-] pie of the present legislature will nevt r again be imitated, but that it will meet the di[countenance it merits from an ci - li htened people, and that our next cot - veution will by a conftirutional article, declare that all records lhr.'l be deemcn facre i, and that no legislature (hall have power to deface or deltroy than. February 18. On Thursday his cxcqlency the governor made tl r following (communi cation to the legilLtaire. Statt’-HouJe y Loujvitle y Feb. jo, 179 b. Ycderday evening i receitcd by ex- preis a letter from major (a copy of which I do myfelf the her to inclofe you herewith) in cohfeqtie Qf the information it I It direded attachment- of horfeto bfnt in motionmmd genera. I'wigls ceived my Orders to make tqgr af rangements for the lmmcdiat/r lec tion ox the frontier fettle^, I rnuft to e neccf- ’ ftty ot proviiion being made ;• the re moval of the magazine in Jguita to 1 this place. JARED IRAN. A copy from fie or.yual. f Jf Februaryiyr-q6. Honored S:r, , About two hours ago r y -f e lf withr party ot feverncen men we the trail of fome horses that the In4us had Rol en from oar neighborhood about < mile above Carr's Bluffwekambufr. ed by a partyof In dray |o were 150 guns fired by the two their number being so far superior t< ours, we fuppefed curfelves rof to be able to drive them, but ilood till they began to furrouvi us, at which /imewe moved off in order, and made ./fate re treat with the loss of four med miffing bit have a hope they are not :]U killed •* at tins the fcttlement is .naqff alarmed and humbly craves the aififi.y ct () f vernment. 1 exped to get^ lt rnen I can and support this frontifi to the Jalt extremity, ft is out of my pwvcr to give your excellency teftimonial\i this at present; but pawn myfelf, that ;t any time it is called for, the whole ,partV will make affidavit of the lame| \y 0 exped to lie attacked on fome adartc within two or three hours* mult, there fore deliil while I fubferibe rnyicil, our excellency’s moit obedient and humble servant. D. BLACKSHIRE, B. M. His excellency governor Irwin. NORFOLK, February 8. On Saturday evening arrived her the brig fly, captain Curry, from Ten eriffe, which place he left the 6th of De cember. By him we learn that tHi Kingston Kaft-Indiaman had arrival there the day before, in 10 days froij England, which brought accounts cf a ; exchange of prisoners between England and France, and that a peace was daily! expeded between the powers. In a London paper which Capt. Cur-S ry read, there was an account of an En-J glilh privateer having been taken by the! Algerines, with upwards of an 100 men! 0/board ; also that the Britiffi Confull was ordered to quit Algiers immediate-1 ] y- 1 In our last we omitted to mention, i that there had been eight Spaniffi Ihips taken, and carried into Bermuda; four of which were captured by the Thetis and other king’s Ihips, and four by Ber mudian privateers* The governor has liberated those taken by the privateers. EXTRACTS Os LETTERS. Portsmouth, (Viry;.’ Jan. 20. Dear Si a, A Recruiting bufmefs goes on brilkly here—l am toid about 1500 cavally will be Ibipped in a few days—great num bers cross from hence daily. Aik a re publican what he this bufmefs, hangs his head—SigfVar.d says—ls 1 fay a woi;d I ffiall be tlic. a partizan of I Norfolk, Jan. 26. L Dear Sir, I I The Dianna, after ffie had bPn clea, J led, hauled off into the stream, where llay until about 9 o’clock at night, wlifl of persons unknown went oil confined the people to the cabin* drift her of all her fails, &c.%dl rkMthefe means laid an embargo upon* Lher| which will perhaps detain her until\ It he will of our executive can lie known. ■The other veflcls are, however, going l)'l with their preparations to receive the lemainder of this body of horse, wliicll ‘1 am told already exceeds 500. , January 28. I I Immediately after the collcftor had / I eared out the Diana, as dated in my 1 ! the French cor protested againlf ‘ feu in due form—tins, I believe,alarm- 1 .1 the collator not a little, for he iifi igdiatcly went and obtained the said ® rar.ee from the captain of the Diana, ||h tail night got under weigh and pro 51'd as far as Crarcy I Hand, where he | overtaken by a nun her of boats, | in the right brought her back,and I her on shore on the Portsmouth. t |of the harbor, where ffie now lia*. J 1- Jh— Sales at Auction. N Thursday the iothinft. for the benefit of those concerned, will be Jr ca the Wharf oVMeffrs. Caig K The MATERIALS of the Brigantine Beffv : ifiing of her Sails, Standing and 1. Earning Rigging, Boats, Anchors, Ca>3cs, Yards, Spars, Caboufe, Pots, Conpaffes, and one Pump, &c. &c.— torther v;ith part of her Cargo, now onyie Wharf,at Five-Fathom-Hole— con Ring cf Flooring,Featheredge, Inch ,andl licit and quarter Boards, Scam Hug, Shi gles* and drefs’d White Oak Stave* and Heading.—Also, Ale Hull, & refidne of the . CARO O, h ‘iy now lie on St. Michael’s Bank (lidding of the fame ’defeription of S\j,\her as fpedfied above—Thenrn. I f ."’- U - IJI|IC Keturn, J'Otn Baltimore. F’y- 1 FEOLR in whole and J-bbls-., apper tl ILLS, from 41 to Ci ai Ins each. ‘ Ship PLEAD in bids. CRAOvEkS in Kem. Mufcovdo SUGARS; ‘ COh Ith E in Bags. French !RANDY in Pipes, b rdhjSid OATS. Windfqjc HAIRS For Sale, by VT E WILLI AM LAMB. MarcfS, 1796. kd* $ Cleweni Stebbins, Have laty imported from New-York, by they pollo and Bbli.un a : CUpcije black Broad CLOT FI and O CAJIMER, India NKKEENS, CorJed. JMITIES, Long LAWN, Ounce lIREADS by the Pound, * refll TEA and Loaf SUGAR. I—A LS 0 By the Scanner New Adventure, Capt. Lightb(|-n, direS from New-York : A lew Dot lof Ladies, Girl’s& Gen tJ’men’s C< ton HOSE; elegant Ma r . hides, ifiit'd and plain Cotton Coun terpans : lhich they will dispose of on the usual errns, at their Store on the Bay near th| Poffee-Houfe—with a gen eral alibrt:n| tof other Goods. & March Btl, 1796. 2 —4 W. , C A k B RICK. 20 pieces hr Sale, very low, by i Be\ttii\r & Dickinson . |March B^l7 16. \y DVFMISEMEm. V T’.y Epor Stolen from the Sub- O fcnber, Hh c town of Savannah, on toe 3d. ml L . a bright Bay Horse, about 14 nail llve years old, oranted vv ith |j n gj e o ne hind foot white, a Snip.—Whoever returns the faA or p e t 0 Mr. Daugha tys, ffiall recauDollars reward. J 9 , | R%V AU G JIA N • Savannah, 11 { I\U. 2