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234 if or tfjc Columbian spufrtun. Mijfrt. Printers, IT is now more than two years since this County has been disturbed by the party feuds of defining men ; and now that each industrious man enjoys the fruits of his own labour, in security and peace, (which must be pleating to ever/ honed man) we are again about to be tnrown into confufion, by a mod dar ing attack made on our liberty, by the Governor fending down a refolveand a tUdmut protefi’i turn, to qualify two men as magiitrates, in the room of two oth ers, fakitobe removed from the county, which is not a fart, as appears by the af fidavit of E. Hebart, Esq. now residing in the town of St. Mary’s, one of the pferfons said to be removed : And since the removal of Alexander Young, the other person mentioned, there has been two magiilrates made by the lad legilla ture, to fill up the vacancy of him, Young, and another who refuted to qual ify ; therefore it is obvious that this ©ver-ftretch of power in his excellency, is to aid fome dark design of him or his fuldr, who, God knows, I never thought im capable oi design before, nor did I think him capable of learning : But as It range things has come to pafs—for we are told that Balaams Ass spoke. But with due fubmidion to his excellency and his guide, or to the modern ass and his rider, there is a fufficient number of magistrates in this county already, as will appear by the following lid, viz. John King, Richard Carnes, William Moubray, Thomas King, John Bur rows, James Seagrove, Wm. Johndon, R. Gafcoigtie, E. Hilbard, J. Wood land, Atkinson, T. F. Ran dolph, Emanuel Wamberfie and Hugh Brown. It is my opinion that 14 ma gidrates, is fufficient for 130 men, which is the greated number I have ever seen vote .at any one elertion in the county, for 6 years pad : Perhaps there may be Pome 10 or 12 more now ; as 1 am sure on the drifted invedigation, the above statement will be found jud. I will submit it to the candid public, if ought but party malice and design, could dic tate the unwarrantable measure related. But I trud, MefTrs. Printers, that the majority of this county, are honed in dustrious men, and will view with hor ror, the diabolical attempts made to im pose on their underdanding, by encou raging a party among us, coinpofed ol men wirhout credit, fame or fortune. Having nothing to loose, they have nothing to tear, and are ripe for any mif chief their / ttU leader may direct them to. They are too mean to trouble the public with their characters individu ally ; but let itfuifice, that mod of them arc noted tory’s, and have been tenants (not ar will) of mod of the jails, in the three southern States, and one of them the mod confpicucras, has travelled fur ther for jud correction, which lias un furrunatcly wrought no reformation. Accompanying the above mentioned dedimus, there came division orders di rected to a certain Hugh Brown, as Capt. Com nadant of this county’, com manding him to organize the militia of the county, and further orders to call on certain mag fi rates to hold elertions for thatpurpole ; not to any two magis trates as the law directs. Here party malice is plainly observable, for this identical Brown, is the tool that caused all thedidurbance in this county, three years ago. The didrift he pretends to command, has not inhabitants fufficient for a sergeants guard, nor does he reside in that didrift; and there was but 7or 9 people present at his elertion. who went there for the purpose, tho { several of them had voted in other didrirts, all which is confirmed by several affidavits. The man dands a tory confefled, and has honesty enough to declare it. liy this manner, is that antidote to peace and good order , and his palfry endeavouring again to throw this devoted county into con fufion. A FREE MAN. Camden County , Aug. 16, 1796. FOR SALE, That Valuable Trad of LAND, SITUATE on Argyle I{land (about Nine miles from Savannah, by water) originally granted to John Race, Esq. deceased, found to contain on a Re-survey, 378 Acres ; four ■cres of which is contained in two Knowls, one of them being fufficiently large for a lettle rnent, and fafe from common Fr'fhes, the rest >'varap, on an exeell-nt pitch of Tide, tvlo , e D tTa ? bounded North by the Plan- P n Rl f h r d Wa V nP > Ef T South by the and KV f ? r l W ' n Wilhamfon, and East C , ** ky the branches of Savannah River. For further particular., apply ,0 ,pi C A IG ’ MCLEOD & Cos. Columbian iHuteum, &c. PARIS, July 11. Admiral Solano, we learn by the last advices from Cadiz, was out of port and ready to hoili fail. He waited only the arrival of a courier from Aranjuez, to know in what man ner it was the pleasure ot the Court he should coudud himfelf, if the English should fire up on Rirhery’s squadron, which was to be con voyed by the bpamfh (hips. The English daily form their line at the heights of that Bay, and lately fnt in two frigates to reconnoitre the Spanish squadron. The Government being informed of this, gave inflant orders to fire upon any ships, which should have the boidncls to repeat this observa tion. The price of Colonial Produce in Spain is considerably fallen, in consequence of numer ous arrivals from America at Cadiz. The camp at St. Roch has been recently augmented by a very fine regiment of horse artillery, fix regiments of infantry, two of dragoons, and two of cavalry. At Gibraltar, the English make preparations for defence, and have mounted the batteries which lecure that impregnable fortrefs. July 13. It is said that Troves is to be the place pfo pofed to the Council of Five Hundred for the establishment of the high national Court for the trial of Drouet and his accomplices. JUI. Y 1 f>. The envoy from Tunis has been prefentrd to the diredory. Mrhee has publicly offered himfelf as the official defender of Drou-t. L’Anti des Loix fays, than an envoy from the Pope is to be sent with General Hoche, to tranquilize the spirit in La Vendee. We know not whether this is a joke, but we think it a very ufeful hint. Accusations have been produced against for ty-three of Drouet’s accomplices. Their names are known. Among them are Ricors, Laig nelot, Robert Lindet, Autonelle, and others. They will all be feat with Drouet to the high court of justice. The son of the prince of Wirtemherg, a tall young man, was taken pnfoner by a volurr t.eef not more than five feet high. When the young prince attempted to fly, the volunteer held him (shaking him at the fame time by the col lar) and threatening that if he attempted toef cape “ he would break his neck!” The prince then offered him his purie, which the volun teer accepted, faying (hat both himfelf and ev ery thing that belonged to him was his prop erty ; but, on arriving at the head-quarters, he immediately reftord him his money. The prince, struck with this ad of magnanimity, embraced the volunte-r, and took him into Itis confidence and friendffiip. G-ner.il H oche, after accompli fhiryg his J million in th* moft honorable and humane manner, is-arrived at Paris. Capture of Leghorn. The commiff.iTy of the French government vyith the army of Italy, &c. ta the execu tive diredory, June 30. “ One division of the army entered Leghorn on the gth inff (Jun* 27th.) The expulsion of the English from that port is in all points of view highly conducive to the infercii of the republic. They have no longer, in that mari time town, any refourccs, magazines crpro viiion. “ The commander in chief muff have sent you all the particulars of this military expedi ion. He lias appointed the consul Belleville to take an account of all the effrds, and merch andize, which have not been carried off by the enemy. * Head Quarters at Piftoja, June 26. Buonaparte, Commander in Chief of the Army of Italy, to his Royal Highness the Great Duke ot Ttilcariy. “ The flag of the French republic isconftant ly infuiled in the port of Leghorn. The property of the French merchants is violated there; every day is marked by fome attempt against France, as contrary to the intereiU of the republic as to the law of nations The executive diredory have repeatedly preferred their complaints to the minift-r of your royal highness at Paris, who has been obliged to avow that it is impoflibfe for your royal high ness to repress the English, and to maintain a neutrality iu the port of Leghorn. “This confeffion immediately convinced the executive directory, that it was their duty ; to repel force by force, to make their commerce ; refpeded, and they Ordered me to fend a divi •ion of the army, under my command, to take possession of Leghorn. “ I have the honor to inform your royal’ highness, that on the iotb inff. ( June 28) a di vision ol the army entered Leghorn ; their con dud there will be conformable to those prin ciples ol neutrality which they have been lent to maintain. The flag, the garrison, the prop erty, and your royal highness and his people (hall be scrupulously refpeded. “ I am, moreover, itiftruded to allure your royal highness ol the deiire of the French go vernment, to witness a continuation of the lriendfhip which unites the two ftatrs, and of their convidion that your royal highness, con. feious ol the excelfes daily committed by the English ships, which you cannot prevent, will , applaud the just, ufelul, necessary mcalurcs adopted by the executive diredory. “ I am, with rfteem and coiilideratiou, “ Your Royal Highnefs’*, See. “ BtONArARTS.” Head Quarters, at Leghorn, June *9. Buonaparte to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. “ Roval Highness, “ An hour before we entered Leghorn, an Engliffi frigate carried off two French (hips, worth £OO,OOO- livrea. The governor fullered them to he taken Under the fire of his batteries, which was contrary to the intention ol your royal highness, and the neutrality of the port ot Leghorn. I prefer a complaint to your royal highfiefs against this governor, who, in his whole condud, displays a decided hatred against the French. He yrftrrday endeavored, at the moment of our arrival, to make the peo ple rife up against us ; there is no kind of ill treatment that he did not make our advanced ; guard experience. I should doubtless have been juftified in bringing him to trial before a military commHTton ; but, from refped for your royal highu-I*, uuitoatcly coavtaccd of the spirit of justice which direfts all your ac tions, I preferred fending him to Florence, whrre, l am persuaded, you will give orders to have him punished levereiy. “'I must, at the fame time, return my thanks to his royal highness, for his goodness in ap pointing general Straraldo to fuoply the army with every thing that was neceflary. He has acquitted himielf with equal .zeal- and success. “ Buonaparte.” Letter from Gr?nd Duke- of Tuscany to General Buouaparte. “ General, “ General Spannochi, arrested by your or der. has be-n brought hither It is a point of delicacy to keep him in arrest until the motives of this step, which I presume to be just, are known to me ; in order to give you, as wellas the French republic and all Europe, the greatest >roof of equity, conformably to the law's of my country, to which I have always made it my duty to submit myfelf. “ I fend this letter by the marquis RJanfre dini, my major-domor, whom I requcll you to inform in what Spantiochi has been culpa bß- _ You may besides repose full confidence in him relative to all the objefts mterelling to the repose of my fuhjefts. “ I ardently de ire to receive a letter written by yourfelf, which, in the present circumllan ces, may render me completely tranquil, and at the fame time allure the repose of all Tus cany. “ Ferdinand.” ARMY OF THE RHINE & MOSELLE Hauffman, commissary of the government to the Executive Directory. STRATSBURG, June 23. j 1 in the morning. “ Your orders are executed. The army paf fi-d the Rhine this morning at two o’clock. Kchl is our own, with all its formidable bat teries. Generals D faix, Beaupon, and Fernio, are pursuing the enemy with vigour. The ac tion Rill continues. A great extent of territo ry, and a number of villages, arc already occu pied by our troops. The enemy is quite ftupi ft“d by an attack, as warm as it was unexpect ed From five to fix hundred prisoners are al ready taken, with leveral calfoons and pieces of 03110071'. “ It is not poftible to beffow fufficient com mendation on the bravery of the army-, on the precision, and particularly on the diferetion wnh which the business has been conducted. Yeiterday morning 30,00a men were in the en virons ot Strafburg, and nobody knew their re al destination. At Neuftadt, it was ftrppofed yeiterday morning the head quarters w'ere go ing to Turkheim, when they were direfting their march to Strafburg. From such una nimity, every thing is to be expefted. “ I have jull ltlt the commander in Chief, as he was passing the Rhine. He will fend off an extraordinary courier to night with farther par ticulars of this glorious expedition. “ Health and greeting, “ W. HAUSSMAN.” Buonaparte, general in chief of the army in Italy, to the Executive DireCforv. 41 Head Quarters at I'ertona. “ The instant I heard that the campaign was opened- on the Rhine, I marched a column to the banks of Como, which has taken and def - troyed the tbit of Fueni.es. “ Fhc Duke of Modena has given lOOOfu fees with bayonets, and eight pieces of cannon 24- pounders, fifteen pieces 16 pounders, twelve 8 pounders, and fourteen 4 pounders. ’ “ The Imperial Fiefs having revolted, they ; committed every excels. The chief of the ■jrigade Lafne, marched thither with 12100 men ; he burned the rebels’ houf-s, and made he chiefs of them prisoners, who have been (hot. 4 ’ The fame thing had taken place in the en virons of Tortoua. I caused fifteen chiefs to be arr< lied, judged by a military commiilipn, and lhot. “ To this hour we hive no Tick, and that is ■ very well. (Signed) BUONAPARTE. ISENBOURG, July 1. The army ot the Sambre and the Meuse is advancing in mass, and by forced marches, to the L.ihn ;■ the Austrians do not make so much reliitance as they did the last time. The left, w ing of that army took poffeilion vefterday, alier a bloody aftion, ot the town of Neuwied. Ehrenbreitlteu is once more surrounded. Ihe geueral in chiel, Jourdan, in a procla mation to the inhabitants of the right bank ot tiie Rhine, has informed them that this time all the French armies arc going topenemate into’ Germany. LONDON, July 4. We yeiterday received by express Paris Journal, on the 30th ult. iuclu five. By these we learn that the French very unexpectedly eroded the Rhine at Stralburgh on the 23d ult. with a very conliderabie force, and talcing the Aus trians by lurprife made theniielves mas ters of the iort of kehl r and after mak ing from 6 to 700 prisoners, extended their deitrurtive incursion into the neighbouring country. Mr. Pitt went to the bank on Thurs day, where he was closeted for two hours with the directors. His business, it is said, was to lta:e to them the ur fent neceifity of 200,000 b being imme iately advanced to difeharge a part of the arrears of the civil lift, which have of late become so enormously great; and it is aflerted that he fuccecded to the full extent of his application. Os the seven millions and half of the last loan, on which three payments had been made before the bank took it into pawn, no lefsafum than 4,700,000 b has been depoiited there till the month of Ortober. There cannot be a greater proof of the scarcity of money. From Cadiz we learn, that*3 8 ship of the line were armed in that por f when an order arrived for 12 of them toput to sea immediately ; on account of the want of a fufficient number of men they were obliged to turn over the crews of four of those to hasten the fall ingof the expedition. The French army, it is said, will now be reinforced by that of the North un der Bournonville, which was totendez vmus at Duffeldorff, and by this jun c * non will compose a body so formidable as may probably check the career of the Austrians, and compel them again tore treat in their turn. A letter from Berlin of the 20th ult states that the Pruflian troops, who ton* ftitute the greatest part of the army which is to protert the North of Ger ’ lTian >' bav e put themselves in motion on ‘he 16th inst. on their march to ti e Weler. c From Italy it is stated, that Man tua is blockaded by the French, the a ar rifon ot which has lately made a f u <T ccfsfui sortie and killed 600 of the ene mv. In the attack made by the French up. on the prince of Wirtemberg’s corps the Austrian regiment of Jordis was cut to pieces, and O’Donnel’s free corps fuf- Xered immensely, as did also Barco’s hussars. A letter from Copenhagen,of the 1 ith ult. informs us, that the Swediih fleet composed of eight (hips of the line and* three frigates, and commanded by vice admiral Nordenlkiold,arrived thereon the 9th ult. and joined the Danilh fquadFon. The combined fleet i a fur the present month to be under the orders ■ of the Danish admiral de Kaas. July 20. The French government has (hewn more | than an ordinary degree of obstinacy in refu -1 fmg to exchange Sir Sydney Smith. Not only the Chavalier Bergerot, captain of the Virginie French frigate taken by us, was sent to Paris to procure his exchange for his own person, but Mr. Nettmau, who lately arrived from Paris, had a fprrial commiflion for negotiating this business. The French government refused to enter at all on the fubjeft. It is with p!-a lure we learn, however, that Sir Sydney enjoys hia health, altho his confinement is very rigor ous, ash is lodged, in the Abbey prison, and is verv closely guarded. The duke of York went on Saturday from Bath, on a visit to the duke of Beaufort, at Bad mington, and Gloucefterffiire. July 23. The situation of the archduke Charles is, n* doubt, highly critical. When the last accounts came away, He was assembling his force in the plain of Rforzfieim, behind the lines of Muhl berg, being preflVd in front by Moreau, who advanced against him with an army superior in numbers, whilst Jordan, with another nume rous army, was on the point of crossing the Mein, in order to turn his left,, and cut off his . retreat into the interior of Germany, j The retreat hitherto made by the Auftriani deserves the highest praise and admiration, for the able manner in which it has been conduc ed. In the moft perilous positions they main tained a diftinguilhed reputation, retreating step Ivy step, with great firmnefs, carrying on all th f *ir magazines, and leaving only in the possession of the enemy a few field pieces, flfsgglers. and the wounded, who increase the lift of prisoners taken by the French. The last Paris papers state, that the archduks Charles intends to give a general battle bet vve-n Philipfourgh and Manheiin. We obferved.ia our paper of yeiterday, that we cannot belfove the archduke lias any such intentfon, as its fail ure would and prive Germany of the supp rt of an army, wench is alone able to prH-rve it from enure subjugation. In all probability, of the two eviis he will choose the least, viz. abandon Menu and Manheim to their own ltiengih, to crols the Neckar near Heilbom, and retreat to the Danube, which he can pass near Donanwerth, and be joined by general Wartenileben, in case this general should not have been able to form this junftion before, on crofting the Mein near Frankfort. With refpett to the affairs of Italy, it does not appear that Buonaparte has madis any further progreis. The French remain still in the en virons of Mantua ; and Buonaparte’s bombaß , tic letter of the bth initant, informs us, that his head-quarters, instead of moving forwards, have oeen removed back from Pefchiera, in the Lake of Guarda, to Roverbeilo, near Mantua J and that of course, he must have given up all hopes of penetrating direftly into the Tyrol, and driving the Austrians from their entrench ed camp near Roveredo. The anmveilary of American Independence, was celebrated at Paris, on the 7th inst. M. Munro, ambalfador from the Ifoi’-d States, and a great Number of Americans, the ’ prchdcnts, and several members of the two councils, the ininiilers of the republic, the am* ! baffadors ol foreign powers, with many of the French generals, were present at this and *ner. It was obfei ved, however, as a remarkable circumllance, that between two places occupi ed by two members of the council of ancients, general Dumas (who diftinguifhrd himfelf iu America during the war for its independence, in the army of Rochambeau) and Barbe M b’ ’>• (who was at that time the French Ambaffidor there)a place was left vacant, of which n' 1 o! ’ e :00k. polfoflion, although extremely crowd’d- On the napkin was a paper with the name Gen eral La Fayette, commander of the American light-infantry. This silent and affefling notice of a man now perilling with his family in a dungeon, who, however blameable his conduct ma/ havt been, in opening the door to revolutiona ry changes, appears to have been influenced oy principle, made a deep impreflion on th r • . pany, and wasconfidered even by the of the French government, as a c'moplii’ ‘ n ( didtated by the moll 6 fl1 ’ rout motives, w N°.