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Mejfrs . Powers C3* Seymour,
By infertirg the following piece from
4he Augusta Centinel, you will gra
tify a number of your Cufiomers.
y: To TIM SHARP:
March 16, 1796.
Dear Sir,
lAM truiy sorry to find the firft offi
cer in oar font hern republic, under
the particular influence and immediate
direction of General jackfon, who 1
think the moll dangerous man to the
peace and good order of any free people
on this continent —witness the last af
fembiy, and Judge Olborne’s trial.—
I w jU give you an instance of his influ
ence over our chief magistrate ; a few
minutes proceeding the rife of the lait
tetriflature, Col. M l Neil informed the
house by a letter to the Speaker, that
he declined accepting the appointment of
fudge to the'middle diflrict; it was not
confildered as the proper channel, and the
letter was directed to be lent to the Go
vernor ; by this time is was ten o’clock
at night, a confiderabie number of the
members had dropt off:—About twelve
o’clock I went round to several of the
boarding houses, with a letter addrefled
to the Governor, requesting him to
appoint Judge Walton, who was the
only candidate, except M‘Niel; there
were not more than thirty-five mem
bers then remaining in town, about 25
of them signed the letter to his e xcclleu
cy ; this I then thought, and do itill
think, was fufficient to guide him in his
choice; but it seems that Gen. Jackson,
advised him otherwise, and on Saturday
la If he appointed William Few, Esq. a
man of no legal abilities, partial in all
his actions, and upon the whole, with
out any one good qualification to recom
mend him. This was done by one man,
contrary to the prayer of Judge Talia
ferro and other signers, the rneaneft of
which, I conceive to be infinitely pre
ferable tew his honor, in point of under
handing, and equal in common honeity,
and of better principle than the Gene
ral.
To add to the misfortune, the ap
pointment is disagreeable to nine tenths
of the inhabitants of the diftridt, and at
leait to twenty-nine thirtieths of Co
lumbia county ,the rqfidence of the j udge,
who mud know him better than the go
vernor, with ail his art and dissimula
tion—so much lor popularity. You
have begun a correspondence with his
excellency, to which you owe this letter;
as I thought his conduct reprehensible,
indeed unpardonable, and you appear to
be capable of painting him in his true
colours, and this is such a glaring- in
ltance of his duplicity. Iv, tlh you to
dress up the business and let the world
fee his clover, foot again,
lam, yours sincerely,
Timothy Touchtru th.
—,
H O U S £ of REPRESENTATIVES.
March 14.
Mr. W. Smith, cremated a bill from
the committee of ways and means, for
further fupporcing public credit, and for
paying off the public debt, which was
read a firft and time, and ordered
to be committed to a committee of the
whole.
Mr. Giles thought the challenge
which had been given to the member
from Georgia was a lerious breach of
the privileges of that house, and he
trusted the house would take uo the busi
ness m a proper manner. For this pur
pose, he moved that the gentleman be re
queued to draw up a itatemer.t of the
affaiv in writing and lay it before the
house. ‘ .
After a number of observations from
different members upon the best mode of
proceeding in the business, Mr. Baldwin
laid fome papers on the table containing
a statement of the affair, which were
read, and the further consideration of
the business put off till to-morrow.
Mr. Baldwin said, that when he was
called out of the house, on the occasion
which he had before Hated, his furprize
to find Mr. Frelinghuyfen interested in
the fubje£t, induced him immediately,
on his being made acquainted with his
name, to fay, that tho’ his person was
not known to him, he had long had much
refpedf for his name ; that he begged
bim to be assured he had as much confi
dence in him as Mr. Gunn could have,
that inasmuch as he had thought proper
to interelt himfelf on the occasion, he
had without doubt made himfelf ac
quainted ijfith the fubjed, and mull have
tound fome grounds to believe that he
had attempted to suppress or with-hold
tome lenatorial paper. That as he could
r ‘ot fuffer such imputation to rest upon
him for a moment, he was willing to
submit to his infpedion the letters and
papers of his colleague as had been before
Columbian itflufetmt, &c.
1 Hated, that he might be at once fatisfied.
Mr. Baldwin said further that he had
not intended to insinuate in any thing
he had laid to the house, that Mr. Fre
linghuyfen unnecessarily consumed time
on the occasion, that what he had said
was merely to give a fletcment of the
lad; that as the queltion of Mr. Fre
linghuyfen whether it was not an inter
ruption to him, and whether he lhould
cull on him again at the house, it is very
probable it migb t have been asked and
related, but the imprefiion of the im
portance of being immediately relieved
from the imputation of being guilty of
f uppreffmg official papers so absorbed his
attention, that if the questions were ask
ed he mult fay with truth, he did not
recoiled them. He begged leave again
to allure the house that ne had never in
tended to insinuate that Mr. Frelinghuy
len had bee . guilty of rudeness in his
manner, or unaeceflarilv consuming time.
Mn W. Smith wished the unfinilhed
business might give way, to take up the
report of the committee on the naval ar
mament, in consequence of the inellage
jull received from the president on that
fubjed; as it was very material that
immediate attention fliouid be given to
the business. He thought fome fort of
compromise might be entered into with
out taking up much time.
Mr. Gallatin said that as the meflage
was only just received from the presi
dent, they cannot with propriety go in
to the business immediately. He
thought w ith the gentleman who pro—
poled the measure that a compromise
might be agreed upon, and for that pur
pose he had drawn,up a resolution. Bui
as tne fubjed of a compromise was new,
and had not before been mentioned, he
tnought if belt not to be gone into sud
denly. Nor did he think it right that
the question which had lor many days
engaged their attention, and which mult
be drawing towards a termination,lhould
be postponed. A day or two could not
be of great consequence to the proposed
business.
Mr. S. Smith wifined the resolution
mentioned by Mir. Gallatin might be
raid on the table, which was agreed to,
and Mr. W. Smith withdrew’ his mo
tion. The resolution was to the follow
ing efFed.
“ Resolved, that the president be au
thorized to suspend the proceedings un
der the ad paifed March 27, 1794, for
providing a naval armament, uniil the
day of any thing to
the contrary notwithstanding.”
Adjourned.
? BOSTON, March 24.
Verbal information froraeapt. Black
ler, wh° failed from Liverpool the 10th
of February.
On the night of the 22d of Jan. the
prefs-gangat Liverpool prefi’ed an .Ame
rican lailor (as they had done several
times before) and carried him to their
house of rendezvous. Those repeated
ii*iuits so irritated the American faiicrs,
that tiiey aifcinbled in a body of about
~s°> went to the house, and demanded
their companion. They were refilled,
admittance, and entered by force, and
regained the man; and after placing the
recruiting captain and officers in the
centre of the room, compelled them to
uncover, and give thiee cheers to the
United States of America. Ou die 27th,
an instance of the fame,kind occurred.
1 he labors again aifembled, and took
from the press-gang an American whom
they had pressed—beat the whole gang
severely, threw two of them Lto the
dock, where one was drowned, killed
one on the spot, and the remainder fled.
On the 2d of February, the American
captains in port were summoned to ap
pear before the mayor, and magistrates
of Liverpool. They accordingly ap
peared, and v/ere requeftedby the mayor
to keep their Tailors under more subjec
tion, and nor fuffer them to break the
peace, as they had done repeatedly, in
insulting the press-gang. He added,
that as long as they behaved themfelvcs
with civility they lhould be protected by
the laws of the land, but that if they re
newed their intuits, they should be pun
ished with the utinoft severity of the
law.
‘The captains in answer replied, that
America was at war with no nation—
but that their citizens had been repeat
edly infultedby the Jiritifh lhips of war. #
That they were the citizens ot an inde
pendent nation, and would receive no
inlults with impunity from the fubjedts
ot any nation. And that the attempts
to irnprefs their men-was an outrage and
inlull that the Engliih government diu
not juftify—and that if they would not
trouble the Americans, they would con
duct themfeires with proptiety, and not
trouble them. After this not an Ame
rican was moleftcd —their conduct wa*
such as juftified the title of freemen, and
they supported the honor of the nation
to which they belonged.
PHILADELPHIA, March 23.
Dear Sir,
THE uncandid statement of Mr.
Baldwin, on the fubjed of our late cor
reiponuence, as published in several of
the papers in this city, lhews that he
has taken no pains to conceal his inten
tion of leading the public mind to a be
lief, that the object of iny communica
tion was to extort from him private
letters, and in the manner of it, to inter
rupt his speaking upon a question before
the Houle of Keprefentatives; than
either of which nothing is further re
moved from the truth. The papers ap
plied for were of a public nature, and
the application was made the day before
the pretended interruption.
When the reprefentativcof a free peo
ple, to whom reipecl and confidence ought
to be attached/ riles in his place, and
makes abortions so unfounded, it mufl
arise from a desire- to conceal his own
meanness or fears, or to criminate the
conduct of others ; and it has become a
duty which 1 owe to myfeif, and to the
public, to remove such falfe impreflions
by all the means in my power. Having
understood that you have intimated,
and to fome of the Committee of Privi
leges, that Mr. Baldwin had laid to you,
both before and after the delivery of the
note by General Frelinghuyfen, that
he did not intend to speak upon the l’ub
je:t then before the committee of the
whole, I am conij: rained to apply to your
jaftice for the amount of that fact in
writing. lam fully apprized, Sir, of
the dencacy annexed to private conver
sations : but this cannot be confide red
in that point of light, from the publici
ty of tne occasion, and the communica
tion cf it already made; and favoring
the caufc of truth, I flatter myfeif with
your ready compliance. 1 will only add,
that neither the public nor youriclf
would have been troubled upon this bu
siness, but for the choice of Mr. Baldwin,
which lias thrown upon me the necessity
of making the truthknown.
I am with great refped and esteem,
Dear Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
J. GUNN. $
Hon, Col. Hampton.
BALTIMORE, March 25.
Last Yvednefday evening, arrived the
brig Fanny, Cape. Hopkins, from Cape
Francois, which place ihe left the 2d.
inst. By this arrival we are enabled to
contradict the account of Cape Francois
being declared in a date of Blockade by
the British.
‘1 hrough the fame channel we learn,
that Admiral Parker, about the latter
part of February, summoned Fort Dau
phin to surrender, as that place was by
the treaty ot peace between France and
Great-Britain, ceded to his majeuy.
iheSpanilh commandant replied, that
ue knew of no such treaty, and if Admi
ral Parker approached the place,lie would
be fired upon. Molt of the troops had
gone to the Mole.
— Mil 111
SAVANNAH. April 22.
A Paris paper of Dec. 27, mentions
that the American Minister had been
robbed at his own house.
Mr. Duval, a R.eprefentative in Con
gress from the Hate of Maryland, has re
iigaed his feat, in consequence of being
appointeda J udge of the Supreme Court
or that date.
‘The bill for the relief of American
Seamen has palled. It allow* 13,000
dollars for paying agents.
General Sir Henry Clinton, died in
England on the 21 ft Dec. last.
The National Debt of Great
may be estimated at prefeat at 345 mil
lions, the interest of which 15 about 13
millions a year; or one million each
lunar month; —being 350,0001. a week;
41661. for every working day of ten
hrurs, or 791. a minute, for the interelt
of the debt! !
V CIVIS to GRACCHUS, is re
c fitted, but poftponedfor want of room.
Marine KegtScr.
ENTERL D INWARD.
April, Days.
19. Sloop James, Weft, Charleston, 1.
Brig M-rgenrithe, St. CJbes, ft.
fcioopOlinda, Laughton, Charleston, 1.
Schooner Thankful, Hand, Reported :or
New-York, i3.
CLEARED OUT.
Schooner Neptune, Dickir.fon, Charleston.
Sloop Harriet, Bemiis, ‘St. Miry’s.
cO. Schooner Experiment, Willis, do. _
Schooner Ir.duflry, Todd, Charleston
lryalfi Mims, GlaDow-
At Public Auftion.
OnfUESDAT , the 26th injt.
Will be SOLI), by the Subscribers on
Moore's Wharf,
8 Hhds. and io Bbls. SUGAR.
. ’ IS’ Bags of PEPPER, Sc
16 Bbls. of CRAM BERRIES.
Belcher & Dickinson.
Savannah, April 22. 2 t.
‘Marshal's Sales.
On Monday the 24/ day of May next,
will be Sold at the Court-House m Sa
vannah, at I I u’Clock in the lore noon*:
920 Acres of LAND,
in Waldington County, granted to Alex
ander Daniel Cuthbert, and by him
conveyed to Dock James Houftoun,
laid to be good land :
500 Acres of Land,
mentioned in the Grant, to be in St.
I auls parifii, granted to Dr. fames
Houftoun, said to be prime Tobacco
Land:—
Aiio, 30 Barrels Rice.
I he above pointed out by one of the
Executors to laid cftatc.—Alfo, that
Well known Plantation
called Colerain, opposite to Onflow
illand, about ten miles from Savannah,
on the River; said to contain 600
acres.—Conditions of Sale, CASH. ‘
Geo. I. HULL, i). M. 1). Q.
N. I<. Plats us the fame to be shewn
on the day of lido.
Ma rfbal's Off r,
Savannah, April 21 ft, 1796. nls
For LIVERPOOL,
1 be Danifn Brig
/Emm Morgenritlie,
V^C-*iY? Capt. Kavne,
WILL fail about the
20tiiMay ; For Frtightor Passage, ap
ply to ROBERT BOLTON.
Savannah, April ?2th. 15-ts.
— , mm*
5 Dollars Reward.
Absconded from the Subscri
ber the 4th inst. an Indented \7o
wan Servant, by name HANNAH
FULLER, aged about nineteen years -
a low well sett w’oman, fair complexion
and hairS—All persons are forbid har
bouring the above servant, on pain of
being dealt with according to law.
FRANCIS MALLERY.
Savannah, April 15. n 15.
NOTICE.
IF any of the Heirs, Executors, or
Administrators of the estate of Mr.
Ruduolph Strohaker deceaied, will ap
ply to the Subscriber properly qualified
by law, they may hear offiomcthing to
the advantage of said estate.
DAVID CRUGF.R.
Charleston, (S. C.) April 6. *ls-41
GEO R G I A, ) BY Edward White, Regijler
(E.S.) vof Ptabates for the County of
Ed. White. J Chatham,in the State ajorefaia.
WHEREAS, Robert Watts, of the City
of Savannah, merchant, hath made ap
plication to me, for Letters of Adminiftratioa
on the estate and eflcbts of James Sheward, la‘.9
of the fame place, merchant, deceased ; Thefa
are therefore to cite and admonish all and An
gular, the Kindred and Creditors of the said
deceaied, to be and appear before me at my
Office in the City of Savannah, on the eiltday
of May next, to Ihew cause if any they have,
why Letters of Admiriifttation should not be
granted him.
Given under my hand and Bal 2t Savannah,
the 21st day ol April, in the year of our
Lord 1796 ; and in the 20th year of Ame
rican Independence.
20 Dollars Reward.
TANARUS) AN away from (he Sub
k** TV scriber's plantation, oa
/■Sfiea Savannah Back River, a few
•> days ago, a Negro Man, named
(• SAMPSON, lately purehafed
dyf *P r - Dilworth, of
Cain<le:i County, in this State ;
he is tull t> teet. high, very black, his head piet
;ty grey, walks upright, is supposed to be be
tween’ 4Q and 50 years of age, and forinvrly
belong’d to the estate of the late Henry Sourby ;
he is well known m th 1 * foutheru parts of thii
State, being ufedtogo between S:. Mary’s and
Savapnah. in a i.,:>at with Mr. Dilworth, ami is
fupi ol :d to o- g me to St. Mary V, ileautort,
New-River or lo:ne of the Sea 1 {lands, as he
went away - n'a lmall Canoe.—A Reward of
t’w . DDLI 1 dS, will be paid forappre
"'•ndin; and deli , ■nu 1 him to me in Savan
nah. —.toy p~! 1 n harboring hi.n may expett
to be prolecutrd.
John Glen.
Savannah, April 18th. at