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268 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 No. 6 5 .