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Jror the Columbian
Mejfrs. Powers 13 Seymour ,
THE man who has no character to
loofc, generally attempts to injure the
reputation of thehonelt man, because, he
is always an eye fore to the malevolent
person, who may be said to enjoy nei
ther principle, henor or courage.—The
faCt is, a malicious man may do any thing,
not careing what he does do.
Ultimately, it is t® be hoped, in a
well regulated government lie will be
made tofuffer, lor an outrage committed
againit an injured individual.
Your correfpondsnt, William Smith,
late of New-York, but now of Black
Swamp, South-Carolina, has made an
indecent and unmanly attack, on my
character, founded on no basis, but* that
of ingratitude ami untruth ; and un
warrantably detained from me a large
sum of money, which has been due lor
years part, and acknowledged by a note
ol hand, ligned by his wile as executor
to the ellate of the late Paul Porcher,
Esq.—The payment of which note has
been alfumcd by him, as will more clear
ly appear by Mr. Behn’s certificate an
nexed.
This William Smith, has dared to
insult the public, with a detail of falfe
afl'ertions, totally groundless, and only a
pretext to wave the payment of the de
mand clue to me ; he charges me with re
queuing Mrs. Smith to confefs judgment
againit the ellate. Does he not, gentle
men, tell you, that at the very time,
there were bond and judgment creditors,
to a large amount againit the eftatc ? Is
not fell preservation the firft law of na
ture ? Suppofingtben for a moment, that
I had made this request—where was the
impropriety ?
He goes on and tells you that he is in
poffeflion of the Ads of the State of
Sooth Carolina, which for high misde
meanors, 1 am therein banilhed from the
State. These acts alluded to, arc the
Ads of Confifcation and Banifhment,in
which many rcfpedable gentlemen jn
Carolina as well as myfelf, had the mif
fortune to have their names inserted.
Here again, he cannot avoid handing
forward falfe mifreprelentations. It is
well known that I resided years in
Charlelton, after this ad was palled ;
and that I was relieved therefrom, and
admitted to citizenlhip, years before I
left Charlefion to come to reiide in this
City.
It vM* known, that I was a Britain
born, and therefore just allowance made
for my political misfortur.es*
Was this the case with you, Wm.
Smith ? No—Your fins were of a deep
er dye. Being an American born, you
voluntarily took acommilfion in a Refu
gee Regiment, and lhamefully harraffed
anddiltrefi'ed your countrymen and coun
try in every direction.
You have the alfuranee toaddrefs the
public on your success with the Chatham
Jury’s, for finding a bill in your favor,
and you call the offence a mifdemcanor
again!! the State. Why not explain the
tranfadion, and tell to the world as you
Iwore before the Jury, that it was for
Itriking you over the head, for your
wanton abuse tome. I may fairly go a
little further, and fay, your exultation
militates againit yourfelf, in the opinion
ot every man of honor.
R. WAYNE, Scnr.
I do certify, that Mrs. Smith gave
her Note (as executor to the ellate of
Paul Porchcr, Esq.) for the balance due
Mr. Wayne from that ellate ; that the
said Mrs. Smith, signed the Note volun
tarily and with her own free will and
consent, at lealt it appeared so to me, as
Ihc made not the lealt objection thereto,
as I was the person who delivered the
accounts to her, and received the Note
from her tor the balance. 1 do further
declare, that Mr. William Smith,
her hulband was present, and made no
objedion thereto, Ido further solemn
ly declare, that Mr. Wm. Smith, on the
22d April, 1795, came to Mr. Wayne’s
Counting Houfc, and then requclted
Mr. Wayne to wait until January 1796,
when he, witli the molt solemn assurance
promised Mr. Wayne, that if the Note
was not paid by that time by the execu
tors, he would pay it himlelf.
Wm. F. BEHN.
Savannah, OSober 1 2th, 1 796.
To WILLIAM SMITH,
Late of New-Tori , but now of Bletck
&wamp } South-Carolina.
I HAY E long, long, fir, expeded
om y°ur publication of the 17th of
j unc last, a defence of the epithets of
fU cal, Liar, and Coward—which were
affixed to your name, and confpicuoully
qcld to view, in three of the molt pub
Columbian JFlufeum,
tic places in this city, also through Car
olina.
I did not expedat this day, to have
seen you, Spaniel like, cringing, and re
queuing of the public a further indul
gence.
It will no doubt, be a matter of fome
sport to the public, a pleasing fatisfadion
to my friends, and particularly so to me,
to find you have so very tacitly acknow
ledged that my alfertions bear every
profped of the truth.—Bite, bite o n r
alTallin ! and regardless monster of repu
tation ! it is thine own heart that bleeds,
and the sooner exhausted, the quicker
will the public befree’d from your non
sense and falfe alTertions, supported by
vain declamation.
You mult feel fcnfibly indeed, fir, the
force and truth of those alfertions of
which you so much complain, and of
which you call on a candid public to de
cide—lt needs no comment, it is alrea
dy determined, and yonr own publica
tion will rife in judgment againit )©u. —
If they are falfe, why confefs them—
why have you laboured under those epi
thets ? were they not well substantiated,
would make nature recoil.
Your pretended feelings mull indeed
fufFcr, by the honorable felf-givcn and
felf-fworn titles, of Swindler, Gambler,
and Cheat. Pray, Mr. Smith, inform
the public, in whole eye you wilh to be
thought innocent—inform them, I fay,
without equivocation, or a requclt of a
suspension of their opinion, how you
fubfifte,d during your ltay in Europe ?
By play —What then is play ? Nothing
less than gambling, and I believe gamb
ling to be the aClof a knave —where now,
fir, is the valt difference ? They are
terms synonymous, and I believe you are
jultly entitled thereto.
1 now, fir, desire to be informed, what
analogy there is between your being Itil
ed, Rascal, Liar, and Coward, and my
having travers’d that suit and paid the
boalled colts, on which you palm your
claim to a further indulgence ? Has not
that indulgent public been too long a
-a paltry excuse ? Yes, fir,
too long, if to that public you flee for
justice. Would any other, but the cal
ous hearted Smith, dead to the feelings
of honor, and fell said innocence, appeal
after a recess of near four months, tor a
Itill longer time to prepare a defence.
I will now, fir, inform you what I am
not—but what you were. Did you,
not, Smith, vicioully, and wantonly,
runt after the lives of your countrymen,
defer t your country, in the hour of need
and danger, by lhamefully accepting a
commiliion in one of the Refugee Regi
ments ? Did you not unlhcath the sword
againit your country, that country that
gave you birth and bread ? Horrid to
mention !you with those volunteer Corps
were generally among!! rite moil barba
rous and opprellive invaders of the rights
and property of your, unfortunate coun
trymen. Fire, sword, rapine, and often
murder, marked the feotfteps of your
wanton exenrfions into that part of the
country, where you found it deienceiefs ;
and too often, helpless women and chil
dren, experienced your savage barbarity.
Your national ingratitude, and black
deeds, mult make you Ihudder, and the
forced grin on your countenance, onlv
serves to veil the horrors of your black
heart.
I mull now, fir, bid you adieu, until
your known assurance, brings forward a
defence of the above Hated fads.
RICHARD WAYNE, Jun.
N* B. 1 have this moment come to
the knowledge, that you were obliged to
apply to your ditty Amanuensis, to af
filt in compiling and writing the piece
signed by you, and inserted in Powers &
Seymour’s paper,dated the nth instant,
and that you, fchool boy like, copied and
signed it.
hor Sale by t Subscriber,
A large New Boat,
That will carry between 70 and 80 Barrels of
■\ C ?’ or / ur| her particulars, enquire of the
lubicriber, in Whitaker-street.
englehart CRUSE.
September 30. n^ 6 ,
RAN-A WA Y,
FROM the Subfcrib-r, in November last, a
Country bora FELLOW, named SIMON,
tormerly the property of Capt. Field Farrar,
deceased, purchased by him of a Maj. Blanton
inWinutborough, South Carolina ; he his been
lately seen in Savannah, (and bv
in the employ of a Mr. Craig, in said place ; he
is about sfeet 6 inches high, little bow leged,
hammers nluch. and when addreftcd or fpolce
to, appears much agitated, with a rogueifh caff
of his eye, and is about 30 years of age.
A Reward of TEN DOLLARS, will be
given to the person, who brings said Fellow to
the fubferiber, or Mr. JamesSinith in Sunbury ;
and a further reward of Thirty-Dollars will be
paid onconviftionof any white p<*rlon harbor
ing him, and Ten Dollars if by a Negro.
ELIZABETH FARRAR
Liberty County, Odobcr $ 65-ts
Lad Tuesday arrived Brig Bellona,
Capt. Crooker, 4 days from New-
York : By him we have received
York papers to the 6th OCtober—
Extracts of which follow :
NEW-YORK, October 6.
IMPORTANT!
Late lajl everting arrived the Jiff Hope,
Captain Hailey, hi 41 days from Lon
don.—Pram the late hour the paper:
were received, we have only lime to
give the following.
LONDON, Augufi: 19.
The intelligence whicii we have this
day to relate, is of so awlul and tremen
dous a nature, that we cannot, without
confiderabieagitation and pain difeharge
our duty in communicating it to the
public. It will excite wonder even in
this miraculous campaign, and may per
haps produce fome negieCt and alarm in
a nation that seems familiarized with de
feat, and reconciled to disgrace. In the
courxe ol one day, we have learnt the
tidings of the rout and dispersion of
mightyarmies, of the abjeCt humiliation
and impending ruin ot the greatest pow
ers ; in one word, of events which seem
to us to be little less than a prelude to
the total deltrudion of the eitabliihed
fyitem of Europe. ‘
It was natural and reasonable that the
Imperial court lhould confider Italy as
the quarter in which alone the French
could be vulnerable. An army scatter
ed over an extensive country, and occu
pied in containing a reltlefs and mutinus
people, seemed likely to prefertt many
favourable points of attack. ‘Towards
Italy, therefore, the efforrs of Auffria
appear to have been direded. It was
even thought politic to weaken the arm/
of the Archduke, tor the purpose of re
inforcing Wurmfer, and a large body
of men were detached for that objed.
By these extraordinary exertions, Gen.
Wurmfer found himlelf at the head of a
gallant and well difeiplined army of
60,000 men ; and that excellent officer
seems to have thought himfelf in a con
dition to raise the liege of Mantua, and
perhaps to effed the recovery of Lom
bardy, His firft fuccsffcs corresponded
with the hopes that have been formed
from so formidable a force. On the
29th ult. he drove the French from the
poll ot Salo, situated on the weft bank
of the Lago di Garda, and Ihortly after
expelled them from Brefcia, the capital
of the Brelciano.
These lucceffes, however, proved as
fhordiced as they were trival. The
army of Buonaparte had been reinforced
by 23,000 men from La Vendee; that un
fortunately celebrated country, through
which the combined powers so long
hoped to give a mortal wound to the
French republic, but which has in fad
proved the grave of the royalilts, and
rhe belt nuriery of republican soldiers.
He withdrew his troops from Verona,
and concentrating his whole force, he
marched without delay againit Wurm
fer. The dates and particulars of the
altonilhing events which followed, are
so impeded, that we can only give a
very general lketch of them. It appears,
however, that Buonaparte attacked the
Aultrains at Lonado and Salo ; and at
the firft of these places made fix hun
dred prisoners, and killed two thousand
men. On the 3d inst. he again attacked
them in the whoic extent of their line ;
at LonaJo, Caftiglionne, and Mon
techiaro, with such success, as to have
killed and wounded 2000, taken thirty
field pieces, and made fix thousand pris
oners, among whom were two general
officers.
What the particulars of the events
whichfuecceded this great vidory were,
we have not yet learnt ; but such ,has
been their aftonilhing and awful result,
that in five days (probably from the lit
m the 6th inst.) twelve thousand Aus
trians have been made prisoners, fix
thousand have been killed, seventy pie
ces of cannon taken, and their whole
army completely routed and dispersed.
In thislhort period has been annihilated
a numerous, brave and difeiplined army,
commanded by one of the molt celebrat
ed Generals ot his age ; tor the formu
tion of which such extraordinary efforts
and faerifices were made ; which was
the foie bulwark of Germany on the
Italian frontier, and in which were de
polited rhe last taint hopes of the Court
of Vienna.
At a calmer moment we might express
our aftonilhment at these ltupendous,
and almolt incredible events, and pay a
due tribute of admiration to the Ikill
and valour which have wrought such
prodigies; but aftonilhment and admira
tion are loft in feelings of a more aw
ful kind, in the relation of victories,
which threaten nothing l e s s than th
universal subjugation ofEurope. The
f rench are now the undisputed mailers
ot Italy, from the Alps to the Strain nf
Medina ; and whether they parcel it if
to dependant Republics, or ftiU f or ‘
while, fuf er its wretched Princes, trem
bling in their palaces, to retain a n r T
carious and nominal authority-U l [ ’
truth and substance a Province
I ranee.
It we turn our eyes towards Ger
many, the profpea appears, if poffiblc,
ftili more clouded and gloomy! The ‘
Diet of the Empire, assembled at Ratif
° n the 30th ult. in the last
ot di may and consternation, palled a
cree (which may, perhaps, be one of the
Hiatts of power they will ever cxer,
ale!) for imploring the French to
giant a Peace to the Germanic Body
1 hey accused the Emperor of having
protracted Hostilities; and his Minister
recriminated, by aferibing ail the ca
lamities of the war to their inactivity
and pufillanunity ; accusations which
may both in part be true—But on what
a miserable and defparate footino- they
mull negotiate, may be judged from the
circurnltance, that they found itneceflhry
to fend a depuration of their own nu m C
ber to the French Generals, fupplicatr
ing them to grant protection to their
persons and archieves! and that the-r
have been compelled to employ the me!
dilation of the King of Pruliia for the
fame humiliating objeft. Itis agrofs
abuse of language, to dignify by tbs
name of Negotiation, the ignominious
terms which a conqueror may chafe to
dictate to thole who are reduced to im
plore his protection.
Thus in this proud Aflembly, the re
presentative of the greatest number of
Princes and Hates that were ever united
in a political association, obliged to de
pend lor its persona 1 laxety upon the pre
carious mercy and accidental moderation
of tiiofe who may command the armies
of France. This wretched humiliation
is not alone delcrving of notice as an
awful and memorable example of the
vicilfitude of human affairs ; hemuftbe
a fiiallow politician, indeed, who does
not perceive that such instances of hu
miliation are likely to be productive of
the molt terrible confequeuces. A vic
tory over the dignity of the eitabliihed
governments of Europe is as important
to the French democracy, as a victory
over their armies. The one diffufes
their opinions as much as the other ex
tends their territories. When the peo
ple of every country fee all that has been
the objeCt of their veneration for so many
ages degraded and laid prostrate in the
dull; tfieir reverence will be changed
into contempt; all the lentiments which
produce obedience to Government will
be extinguished ; and the bands of Po
litical Society loosened and dissolved.
While the fabrick of the Germanic
Conititution, withal! its faults, has been
ever juitly accounted one of the chief
bulwarks of the eitabliihed fyitem of
Europe, is thus rapidly tumbling to
pieces, the fit-nation of the Emperor ap
pears to be equally mortifying and un
fortunate. Even the gallant spirit of
Hungarian Loyalty, which has often,
in the molt deiperate moments, fu(lamed
the tottering fortunes of the Houle of
Austria, has on this occasion foriaken
him. Hungary has been deaf to the
voice of its diitrefled Sovereign, which,
in other times has produced such pow
erful effects on that martial people.
We have received authentic intelli
gence that General Kleber has entered
Ratiibon ; but the particulars of his
ncgociation (for so it will be ridicuoufly
called !) witn the captive Diet, have not
reached us. We have also the best rea
son to believe, that fome wretched terms
of Capitulation, which by the courtesy
of Europe, may be called’a Treaty of
Peace, have by this been granted by the
French to the Emperor at Munich*
The term negotiation may be applied to
such tranfaCtion:, but negotiation im
plies at lealt fome equality. ‘There is
no ncgociation between a conqueror
and a suppliant.
Whether the victorious Republicans
will condescend to listen to the fuppiica
tions of Mr. Pitt, and vouchlale to in
clude him in the conditions which they
may grant to the governments of Eu
rope on their surrender, we know not;
and amidlt the ltruggling sentiments of
shame, furrow, terror and indignation,
which at this moment fill our minds,
we had almolt said we cared not.
The probability seems rather againit
a peace with Great-Britain. The Em
peror is too much overwhelmed t by Ida
own calamities and dangers, and too ur
gently prelfcd by the necellity of an im
mediate accommodation, to be solicitous
about the interelts of an Ally, whole
deftruCtive frieudlhip has been thelource
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