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276 :he time requitril by law, For the looters to wait a restitution of their property; or to for >it all right to it: We conceive this penalty to ffrike at the very root of the population of this Hate, which the virtuous congrefsof 1776, also r'itclared another veafon, for breaking their al legiance from the king of Great-Britain, in the words following: “ He has endeavoured to prevent the population of thefc Hates.” Wliilft we fincerelv hope that Georgia, will remain a link of the Union to the end of time ; we can not refrain from making these observations, and exercifingour right of informing congress of our grievances, and requiring a redrefsot them. Thirteenth.—We present the usurpation of powers, by the ComimfliOiiors of the United States, to make rules and regulations fortheci tizens of this Rate, during the late treaty at Coleraine : Regulations without exception of persons, which equally aiforted iheCommifli'in ers representing this Rate, within iier own lim its, and the loweß citizen, which muff have tended to lessen the Rate in the eyes of the In dians, and to prevent the Rate’s succeeding in t.er objert, of obtaining the Oconee lands, and which regulations, fuperceded the laws of the land and civil jurifdirtion. It appearing that citizens were arrclted by military process, in flead of conßituted authority, which if admit ted to he proper at Coleraine, may as a prece dent, be also prafctifed on a future occahon, in the city of Savannah, or any other part of the Rate. We are also of opinion, that thtf*'mvßerious conduft of the late Cotntnillionersof the Union, and the Superintendent of Indian Adairs, cov ered fome individual speculating deigns againß the interests of this Rate. On which head, we further present t.hofe abominable and iniqui tous grants of pine barren land, which have been palmed upon foreigners and northern ci tizens, the plats of which have been d-corated generally with timber, not found on them ; and moil of the pretended trails fold, are not in existence, to the injury of the character of the Rate, and the honcit citizens thereof, nine tenths of whom, behold the lp*culation with the utmost abhorrence, conlidering the measure calculated to injure their reputation, and to cheat the unwary, to add to the pell of a few men, who are void of principle and honor, and who would facrifice their country and its rights, to inrreafe their own property. We are fort y to fay, that among thofc ehararters, are thole high in office in the United States, and two judges thereof, to wit: James Wilson, of the supreme court, of the United States, and Na thaniel Pendleton, of the diftrirt court of this Rate, together with James Gunn, senator from this Rate to congress, have been foremofl in influencing the legislature, which palled the pretended Yazoo law, bartering the rights of (his Rate, and the moft fertile nart in the U itrd States, for a mere song, and which if it were -to he deemed legal, thole concerned, have fold for lentimesas much, which the Rate by proper management might have put into her treasury. Weoongraiulatcour fellow citizens, however, on the viriuc of the bill legiflature* which declared the laid pretended hi*-, ctmfli tutionally null and void, as well as fraudulent and currupt, and we hope our fellow citizens at large, will now exhibit their virtue, by fend ing inch men only to the next legislature, as arc known to be free from (peculation, and will refpeft our rights, by continuing and con firming the annulling law. It is only by a firmnefs of conduct, in the citizens at large, on this important occasion, that our rights can be refpe&cd in congress, and at home, that this species of gambling, can be-difcountcnanccd, and fpeculaiing (harpers be defeated, -which is as much to be defil ed, on account of morality and our rising generation, as the future repole of society, and the reputation of our growing community. < We further present on this head, the attempt by Alexander Moultrie, and others, to drag this Rate into the Federal Court, to answer a suit in equity, under a former pretended Yazoo laic.—We abhor both (peculations alike, and we recommend to the officers of the Rate, who may have been served with copies of the bill, filed in the Bid suit, to make no answer thereto, until the meeting of the next legislature, who •we hope will remonfirate to congress on this fubjefl : We cannot suppose the Rate liable to be sued, and in this case wc hope flvwill prr ferve her dignity, by refuting an answer, par ticularly in a court, where the judges have been guiding the last speculation, and where flie can confequentlv expert no jullice. We hope that the amendment to’ the conilkution, to unanimously entered into by congress, a gainst the Liability. of a Rate, will riot be leap ed over, to answer the vile purppfe. of the 1 moft infamous (peculation. Fourteenth.—We take this opportunity, to express qur approbation of our Governor’s con durt, and hope may (out in be to deserve I the eßeerrijOfJiiji fellow .citizens.-*tWc wish the next legislature, to make enquiry into the. conduft of John King, Richard Cafnes, and William, Johnfou, magillratesof Camden coun ty, who have dated to disobey his conßituted authority, whereby the adminißration of juf* tice has been impeded, and requell that all- Inch may be fufpeoded. Fifteenth.—We present as a grievance, that the recognizances forfeited, arp never recover ed, whereby foreigners who daily visit this place, are fuftered to insult and abuse our fiel jow citizens magillrntes and laws, with impu nity ; and weearnclljy recommend to his hon or the Judge, to direct the Attorney General, to put all bonds of this nature,*immediately in A’ •, and have the monies arjfing therefrom, We conceivp it as a hardship, that where a ! person is profeented, and not found guilty, that he fliould be obliged to pay thecofts, and recommend to the next Legislature, to adopt lome mode to make the profccutor pay colts in all Rich calcs. Sixteenth.—We present as a.-grievance, that the magißrates and other public officers of the eallern diftrirt of this State, are not regularly lupplicd with the laws, from which caufethey cannot aft with that decision, which the duties * t i h . C,r ref P^> v e offices require. The receiver ot tax returns for this countv. lor the year 1796, having furniftied the Grand Jury with a lilt of defaulters within the conn- . J/’ ! or j ‘ e a{or cfaid, amounting to one hundred and fifteen persons, besides a number ot others, wbofe commanding officers have emitted to deliver to the said receiver, lifts of persons liable to pay tax within their refpert Columbian jFluCcum, ive company diftrifts. We are of opinion, that as tlie tax aft for the year 1796, has fuffi ciently provided for the punilhinent of Rich delinquents; the taxes, is fully authorized, and ought therefore to put the lame in force, againß all Rich defaulters. We recommend to his honor the. Judge, to poflpone the trial of all appeal c-iules {except in c.ales where both parlies agree) to a future term ; so much of our time having been al ready taken up with Rate cases, and fome ol the jurors from the Rtuation of their healths, will be unable to attend much longer ; It is also a matter of doubt with us, how far we can aft as a special jury, under the lall judicia ry law. Wc return our sincere tjianks to his honor the Judge, for his pointed and judicious Charge, and requeß the fame, together with thefc out 1 presentments, may be inserted in the public Gazettes. EDWARD WRIGHT, Foreman. Peter S Laffitte, (1.5.) Philip Ulmer, (l.s ) Mofcs Sheftall, (l.s’.) William Neylc, (l.s.) John Moore, (1.5.) Ben. Wall, (1.5.) Win. 1-ewden, (1.5.) S. G. Sargeant, (l.s ) Win. Pmdcr, (1.5.) John Gibbons, (1.5.) Richard Wall, (1.5.) Th. Robertson, (1.5.) Joseph Roberts, ( 1.5.) John C. Smith, (1.5.) Andrew Miller, (1.5.) LATE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE , received ut Charltjlon , by the Tamma ny, 45 days from Liverpool. PARIS, August 4. Letters from Turin Hate, that the king of Sardinia, in compliance with the terms of his treaty with France, has just published an amnesty in favor of all perions who were imprisoned on account of their political opinions. T hey add, that the difeontent and fer mentation in Piedmont continue to in crease. August 7. Last night a fete was given at the sum mer Vauxhali, to aii the foreign minis ters, consuls and other diplomatic agents of the powers allied or friendly to the republic. August I^4 . It is reported on very good authority general Jourdan, and the commilfioner general Joubert, while they were ex changing civilities on the Upper Main, were surrounded by the corps of Aus trian cavalry, and owed their lately to the van guard of the Cuarafiiors, who charged cue enemy with irrefiAible im pctuolity. Forty veiTels richly laden with all the treasures ot the churches in the Hates ot the electors ot Treves, Cologne, and Mayence whigh were going up the Main into Austria, have tallen into the hands ot the French between Wurt bourg and Bamberg. This prize is valued at nine millions of German Houns. Citizen Bourville, Vice Cental to the Republic at Aitaquia, in Syria, writes to the Miniiler ter Foreign Af fairs, that a violent earthquake dciiroy ed aii that town on the and that upwards of 3000 persons were bu ried in the ruins. The fame shock did contiderablc damage in several other parts of Syria. France vviil, without doubt, behold with much interelt a recapitulation of the captures made from the enemy by the army of the Sambre and Meuse, in a inarch of two months, signalized by fucji a leries of vidories. FIELD PIECES TAKEN. At Altenkircken 12 In the Plains of Neuwied 2 At Fricdberg 3 Upon the Mein, from Gen. Warten lleben’s park of reserve 40 —5:7 BESIEGING ARTILLERY TAKEN. * At Frankfort 171 At Wurtzbourg and Marien , ‘ bourg 303 At Koenigflein 10 At Koniglholfcn 69 At Bamberg 2 —65 Total 612 ** More than 4000’ mufquets, with an immense number of colours. The captures in provilions, clothes, aßd other neceflaries, are estimated at two millions. (Signed,) KLEBER.” Armijlice concluded between the French • Republic and the Magra-ve {of Baden. Sufpcnfion of arms provisionally, un til the definitive peace proposed by the diredory r or till ten days alter the breaking up of the negociation. h ree palfage to the French troops in the Margraviate. The fourth article is conceived in these terms : Article IV. If by circumstances or the difficulty of communication, it lhould be neceflary for the troops who pass through, or remain in the Margraviate, to draw their subsistence from the coun try, then the Baliffs or other inagiftrates (hall not refufe them grain or bread, hay, oats, meat, wood, or such carriages and horses, as the generals and commis saries might require. The supplies (hall be taken in part of the provisions arid money to be furr.iftied by the Margrave of Baden to the Freneh Republic. Every other article purchased ofindi viduals, (hall be paid tor by the troops, in money. There (ball be an account made of what is delivered to the French troops, from the signing of the treaty. The comraillary in chief of the army of the Rhine and the Moselle (hall make every neceflary arrangement with the commifiary, to be lent by the Margrave, that the greatest order may reign with refped to the supplies, which lhall be made by the country, for theeftablifti ment ot proper places for magazines, which may be neceflary, and that the inagiftrates may be iupplted beforehand with the provisions to be iurniihed. Art. V t The Margrave of Baden, (hall pay into the chcft of the paymalter ot the Rhine and Moselle, the sum of two millions of French livres in money,, 500,000 livres to be paid in ten days* from the flgning this treaty, 500,000 ii- res in ten days following, 500,000 lit res in the last decade, and 500,000 lit res in the following month. Art. VI. The Margrave shall fur nifh the French army within the time above fixed, reckoning from the day of signing, 1000 horses, 400 of which shall be draught horses, and 400 cavalry, Iroin eight to eleven hands high, and from five to eight years old. r l he horses lhall be furnilhed by thirds in ten days after signing the treatv. I hey are to be delivered at the places appointed by the general in chief, to gether with 500 oxen of joolbs. weight, within a month. Art. VII. Twenty four thousand quintals of grain, two thirds in wheat, a third in r)e, in the magazine which shall be appointed. Two thousand sacks of cats, twelve bushels to a sack, fifty quintals ot hay. All tilde articles lhall be (u; - Mined in thirds, within fix decades, uniefs the commifiary in chief fixes up on a longer time. Art. VTII. Twenty eight thousand pair of ihoes (hall be given into the ma gazines of otraibourgh within a month, if these Chocs cannot oe furnilhed with in me time fixed, they (hail be paid for at five livres a pa: r. Art. IX. The Margrave of Baden, Oiaii immediately fend to the executive directory, to ncgociatethe ieparare peace which he proposes. Giv en at iStutgard, 7 Tberrnidor, Juiy 25, 1796,4 th year of the French Repuoiic. The Plenipotentiary ofhisfercne high ness, the Margrave of Baden. (Signed) The Baron Reiyentien. LONDON, August 12. The million of Mr. Hammond abroad, which we were the firft to announce, promiies to reitore tranquility to E-u ----fope, if the French have any disposition to pat an end to the calamitous war, which now desolates a part of the con tinent of Europe. We are well allured that this gentleman is gene abroad ves ted with full power to treat for peace. We do not aflume to ourselves a know ledge of the direct route which this gen tleman takes on his arrival at Hamburgh, whither wc understand he goes in a fri gate (rom Shecrnefs ; but is is confident ly told us, that his firft visit is to the king of Fruffia, at Pyrment, in Westpha lia, where his majelty was by the last accounts. His journey thither, under idea of drinking the waters there, has long been a ot speculation, but we have now reason to fay that it is in timately confined with other operations, which arc of the greatest importance to all Europe. Be tlie event what it may, it will prove to every unprejudiced mind, that his majelty’s Ministers are moft anxiously desirous of restoring tran quility to Europe. August 20. The American (hip Pomona, Robin son, from Bermuda to London, was tak en off St. Alban’s, by a French lugger privateer, and retaken by the Telema chus cutter, <x is arrived at Portsmouth. August 22. The June fleet, from the windward islands, the arrival of which we (fated yelterday, is one of the moft valuable that ever arrived at one time from that quarter. It confflts of 125 fail of trad ing veifels,including the DukeofMont role Eaft-lndiaman. The Jamaica fleet is hourly expe&ed, the whole ot the Bristol (hips arc already arrived ; and other (hips belonging to it were left by them on the 12th inti, a few leagues to the Weft of Cape Clear. All the Eaft-lndia (hips that came home in the last fleet, as well as those that are returned after carrying out tV troops to the Welt.lndia Islands are chartered to go out in the company'! service on the approaching season The French Priests, who have hit!, erto resided in the Castle of Wincheiler arc ordered by government to evacuate it, as it is to be occupied by troops who are to be sent to that place. We learn by the 1 Paris papers, that a conspiracy was- dfleovered at Rome 011 the 7th ult. in which no less than irco* persons were a floe lated tor the purpofc 0 f overturning the Goverment, and intro ducing Jacobinifln. The principal lead” ers were Barbieri, Clerk to the R eg s ment of the Blues; and Tonoli, a native of Bologna, who had served as Deputy Commifiary in the French army of the Pyrenees. The Major of the Bloes djf covered the conspiracy, by means of two oerjeants of his corps, who contrived to take away the plans which Barbieri had drawn out. The conspirators had resolved to imprison the principal persons at Rome, and seize on the Calfle. They were both sent to priion the fame dar/ August 27. Letters from fir John Jervis in the Mediterranean, Hate, that he is cruising off Toulon with seventeen iail of the line in fine condition, expecting hourly to be joined by Admiral Man,°who, he was informed, had quitted the Ration oft Cadiz.—At Corficaall is profound ly quiet. Sir John s cruifcrs captured every thing bound to and from Leghorn. At a late hour last night arrived a se ries ot Paris Journals, up to the 221! in. clu five, which contain but little of im portance. Monsieur Revel, the Sardinian Envoy at Paris, has received orders to quit France. The fame order, a little more severe, has likewise been intimated to tne Envoy of the Pope. The latter is akowed only 24 hours delay. Ihe kn.g of Sweden was to (et cut on the 12tbinft.cn a visit to the em press at Peterfburgh. The intimaev between the two courts is daily increai ing. AMSTERDAM, August 1. The French Miniiler, Noel, has re quested of the Dutch convention, a sum exceeding 5000 guilders, for repairir.g the damages which the French fleet late ly has sustained in the engagement oft’ # Goree, with the Er.glifh man of war; on pretence that the fleet was destined to protcift the coasts of Holland. The true object, however, was to cruize for a fleet cf Engiifh merchantmen ; and several Members suggested, that tlv.e (liips have been in the firft inna xe badly cquiped ; .or that, in so unequal a con flict, it was impollible to receive damag es to tuch a confidcrable amou t. The request, however, was referred to the Marine Committee, and wifi doubtleis be complied with. HESSE-CASSEL, August 14. Caron Waix, the Heifian miniiler cf date, and the French minister, citizen Rivals, instead of going to Wurtzburgh, returned on the 10th instant to Frank fort. The excursions are said to relate to an arniiftice between the circle ofths Upper Rhine and the French Republic, which wms hitherto ncgcciating, and is on the eye of conclusion. A leparate congress will be held at Frankfort* where citizen Barthelemy, the French, ambaffauor, is expected from Basil. BRUSSELS, August n. The hoftages*taken from Frankfort at sureties for the payment ofthe two con tributions are now at Coblentz, general Bournonville is also there.—Fie has been visit ing all the places under his command, which extends from the North •• Sea as far as Coblentz. Yelterday the French Emigrants who had (erved under Choileul were guillotined on the grand place of this city. r i h(|y were young men of good appearance. One of them (hewed fume weakness at the foot of the fcaffold, the other fivedifplayed an unalterable firm nefs. One of the latter smiled when the sentence of death was pronounced. August 13. Amongst the baggage seized by the French troops above Kourtzbourg, is that of the imperial envoy to the prince biftiop of Liege; all the plate belonging not only to the church, but to the prince bilhop, and avast quantity of gold and silver vefiels which formerly belonged to the convents in Belgium, and which had been sent into Germany as a place offccurity. The city of Frankfort not having dis charged the fccond third ot its contri bution within the term preicribcd, 1 5 new hostages have been taken froma mongft the citizens,and sent to Cologne, No. 67.