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rotation in office, ‘that Mr. Jeflferfon is
advocated in the removals he has made!
I aik why were removals made at all ?
Did the public imereit demand them ?
—Did the offices call greater talents
thanthen filled them ? Hus last ques
tion will be aniwered. in the nega
tive : but we are told that the removals
have been made that each party might
participate in the offices of our govern
ment.
What mean artifice ! what despica
ble fubterfuge ! No, fir, a hijtive hon
orable like this is unknown to the pure
Tons of Democracy, They were re
moved becau’fe they are Federaliits ; be
cause they venerated the cha rafter of
gen. Wafhingcon, while the high prielts
of Democracy hired afiaifins to (lab it ;
bccaulc they approved the adminiltra
tion of Mr. Adams, while
in the fuppoi'ed pangs he occasioned that
venerable charafter. These, these fel
low-citizens, are the causes of their re
moval. Hostile to our conllitution from
its very adoption, the very moment of
its adoption, this genuine republican
sickened at the fight of Federaliits hold
ing offices under it. His dark foul
sou t ht every means of inflicting on those
who would hot fall down, worlhip and
adore this political monller of the new
world. . Dcltitute of those ennobling
qualities which almost liken man to his
‘maker, his obdurate heavt was gratified
at feeing the silver headed veteran re
duced to penury and want, and forced to
labour with that hand which had once
gallantly unsheathed his fvvord in the sa
cred cause ot freedom, i.
The ferviec.s fa; mcrly r'ehdered to
ent’s country ; the fame required by
military exploits ; the loss of health ; the
total deprivation of fortune j all these
were but feeble barriers indeed again ft
that spirit of persecution, which lighted
Upon the centre of our union,, blazes
diftruftion in the face of every federal
officer. Federaliits must be, retrieved ;
the voice offaftion had denounced them;
tne work of reformation mult be begun,
and that work was reserved for the illi)l
trious man of the people. Let us now,
my countrymen, proceed to an examina
tion of Fme other part of the exiting
adminiftr3tion. I trust I have proved to
you that the refiiovals hiade by Mr.
jefferfon are unnecessary 5 that in iha
king these removals he has not promo
ted, in the smallest degree, the interests
ot the ‘people ;, but only gratified the
:datk spirit of political revenge., No
imerefl of the nation demanded thtm;
no fuyplicatory address had fainted-the
eye of the (age of Monticftlo, praying
them to be made. It was therefore an
arbitrary aft. It w3s an aft not called
Ibr by the public*.will. It was an ait
Which mult eternally tarnilh the'politi
cal fame of its author.
Vor the SAVANt.NAHAUViLR.nSER.
-.• 1 *
The Jotlc.i. y uos rrcr.vidOft Monday last, tut
too late Jot insertion in Tuesday's paper,
TO THE PUBLIC. .
ITf ptiufi g the certificate fi-iiwl . S. W,
Minor, pub} the • in the bit Friday’* Muleum,
by William j. H..t>by, I Oi.brvc a Uaifracnt
which bears a canltrudion (hat (1 I ole inn I y
declare) I.never intended it fhocld convey. ’
„ Tire i,.£t ia, MU. Hobby called on me at a
tunc when I was laboring under extreme in
d.f,:vfl ion, and Uking advantage of my Gtuo
tics, prevailed upon me ,u> sign a,Certificate,
vhn.li my illnefa prevented my pry mg fufh
cient auen ion to, tor enabling pie to.compre
hend i a teal meaning. 1 now perceive jhai
tl) above laid Certificate makes .mq.affert pas
it'oelo, that “'I never received from the P ft
Uffice any of R}r Sjpith's papers with Mr
BpiiceV’—fVhrn my intention was only, to de
clare, that at the time* of taking Mr. Bonce’s
payers from the Pott-Office, I never was con
scious of. having, received with them any t
Mi. Smith’s papers—And that, 1 did net mean
to insinuate, in my affidavit,)hat 1 knew by uinm
those papers were delivered to laid Bu.,n-;
but b t tny meaning waa that 1 hey came iliitcl
from’ ‘ Poil-.Oifioe, and that.Mr. Smith ban
icoer \ them But, a* the packe.s direct
and to Dk, Puttee, were, always staled. 01 Jod
oi, whA • Mr. Smith’s or any other per son
paper# .w \ .lncLoted with them, is what I
fuld not take upoo me to assert, ,*.
... so who have experienced the excef.
jtve. langor snd m*frry ol acute disease, my
averftght will be eafl'y explained.—They well
know how irkforae, and irritable to the feel
ing* i* the intrufton of. bufinela at that time t
tfie.ex.treoie impatience that ia excited, and
coniequent anxiety to he left to repole, V.
Hobby has asserted, that my affidavit
Waa very atljully drawn up—from what l have
Above hated, 1 (hall leave the world to judge
f His talents in that refpeft
S. W. MINOR.
„,S*v. pth May, 1803. _
For LIVERPOOL, “
■Sfft.A t Thefhip UNION-ISLAND,
Captain Milrri, 384 ton* t urthen,
copper bottled and (fieathed, un-
American colors, has in her
a heavy freight, and will fail in
For freight of 300 bales cotton
to fill up, or psflage, having m< ft superior ac
commodation*, apply to • ;
MEIN,MACRAY^Co.
_ Mty in ~
- MARSHAL’S sale£.
§n the Spth inf. will hefold at the Cour'-hwfe in
the city oj Savannah, between the hours of
to and 3 o'clock,
A Mulatto Man named Peter, about
114 years, of age,. accustomed to be emyloyed
as a feastan, and pilot for the bar and river of
Savannah ; levied on as the. property of VYm
Finder, t y virtue 6t in execution in favor of
Hc&nr O; braeth. . A1f0,,, ,
Tbex ha/f in and Sores, eaff of the Coffee
hqufc, together withpne thirdof the wharf
and buthtngkon which thecoffee-houfe (lands,
levied on as tfie property of the.eitate of Alex
ander Watt, Eljf dec. by virtue of several ex
ecutions in favoiVpf the United States, and
others. • \
BENJAMnN WALL, m.d.g.
Ssv. nth May, ISOV at
~~ FACTORAGE.
The fnb/criber having I onvenjeat STORES
on MOOR'S WHARF.I (formerly occupied
by Carpenter and Havens} offers his fervicei
to the Plsnters and other! , in the FACTOR
AGE (3 COMMISSION BIA'IUSS
EBENEZB-R STARK.
June it. 7 *9
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
[ The following articles are received by an ar
rival at Charlrfton since our Hit.]
LONDON, March 16.
It, was ytlterday whispered from one
of the firft authorities, an authority en
titled to our belt confidence, that a par
tial change had taken place in the admi
nistration ot the country j that Lord
Moira had accepted the office of Matter
General of the Ordinance ; that Lord
Pelham had resigned his situation in the
Home Department in favour of the Earl
of Chatham ; and that Earl St. Vincent
was every hour in the expectation of re
(igning.
A March 17.
That partial Change in the adminif
tration of the Affairs of this Country,
which we yelterday noticed, is conhrined
by the Sun ot last night in thele words
“ We can now confidently date, that
“ Earl St. Vincent, and Captains Str T.
“ J'Yonx.bridgc and Markham , very speed
“ ily retire.”
The Succefibr of Lord St. Vincer.t,
accordingly to report, was not yelterday
finally fettled.. Lord Melville, it is laid,
hfts refufed. Other changes may be soon
expeded.
Government, yelterday, in expectation
of the Ultimatum of France, waited with
much anxiety for the arrival ofaMdTen
ger. The Clerks at certain Offices were
ordered to be in waitirfg, ]to communi
cate the news to the various Departments
of State both in town and country.. It
is, however, believed, that Uiionape.rtt
will decline a diredt and plain declaration
of his designs refpeCting the Armaments;
and, till he dih'atches certain vellels to
the lcveral deltinations in the East and
IVest Indies, will adt on the evasive. It
is, theiefore, to be hoped that our Gov
ernment will infill on an immediate an
swer, and not yield fubmifiivtly to the
infolettt and reltlefis spirit of a man .who
openly.avows the deitrudtion ot the Brit*-
ifn Empire.
. , , March ti,
Last night we received the Paris jour
nals to the 17th inlt. wlncn ltill prelerve
the moil cautious silence on the lituation
in which both countries are placed.—
Not a report is inlerted, not a conjedture
is hazarded, rcfpedtihg the imerefting
dticullions which, aie pending betweeh
our government and that of France.
Vve ihould be happy were we certain
that this reserve was the gen dine off
ipring of the spirit of Peace, that it had
tor its motive, the desire of avoiding ob
fervatioi), which at a moment like the
present might tend to exaiperate the in
dignant feelings of action always quick
to < forgive and forget even the greatclt
injuries, when the rival a flumes the tone
of reconciiatiQUj.and appears to return to
the true lentiments of honor and ofjuftice.
It is difficult,, however, for it a to flatter
ourselves with this hope, when we re
colleit the irritating, the indecent lan
guage with which the French journals
have abounded ever since tlie fignipg of
the Preliminary Treaty of Peace.—dri a
country where the Prels is, with rclpedt
to poli,ricl difeufiions, completely en
flaved,it may be txpedted that tiie Edi
tors of the unofficial Papers would hesi
tate to,Rate their opinions on a dueltion
of so much magnitude as that ot Peace
or War, until they fee the manner in
which it is treated in the Moniteur ; and
the latter Journal has, for fome time pall
been altogether filled with the proceed
ings of the Legislative Body and,the Tri
bunate, on fubjedts wnich are certainly
of great local importance to France, but
which afford us no opportunity to form
an opinion of the mind of the Govern
ment at the present enfis, , r . ,
But whatever be the event of the ne
gotiations which are. carrying on, it is
our consolation to refledt, that at no pe
riod can this country be better prepared,
in means or in spirit, for the cqnteft into
whic.* it may be obliged to enter. .; The
atrocious condudt of’ France towards
Switzerland and Holland , the suppres
sion of every thing like freedom through
out the , whole extent of the
has deprived Buonaparte of the few in
considerate partisans he cr.ee might have
Sloped for in this country. Every En
'glifhman will be eagef to defend, the
blessings he enjoys under our happy con
flitution, and to shed his blood in oppo
sing a foe whose only motives of attack
would be plunder and oppreffioh. If
we are involved in a wjtr, we trust It
will be the care of the Government to
demonstrate, beyond the poflibility of a
doußt that i.t is just and neceflary ; and
this country vyill then have nothing
alarmingly, dangerous to apprehend,
whatever be the force of the enemy,
As to the important dueftions of Peace
or War, we believe all was uncertain
last night at the French Ambaflador’s.
His Excellency has received no Difpatchi
Horn Paris fisce Tuesday night, though
for the jafltwo day?, he has beenexpefib
ing one every hour.—On Saturday //.
Portalis was heard to declare, that much
would depend on the Courier The re
port, therefore, of the embargo on Brit
ish Veflels in the ports of Frr/, is, pro
bably, fome what premature. From the
fame refpeftable .source, we. learn, that
M. Mittgauld, the commifiary of Calais,
had received orders to flop all communi
cation with England till the First Consul
fiad fettled the points in difference be
tween the two Countries with Lord
Whitworth,
HAGUE, February 25.
The Spanish Government has made
the following communication to the
merchants of Amsterdam :
His Moft Catholic Majesty, to
prevent any mifapprehenfioo of the
.pit-port of hfs refeript of the 19th No- j
vember last ordering that no foreign im- !
pArts shall be admitted into the UsrttA- t
ries of Rpani otherwifa tni* under a
certificate frond tlrt Spaniih Consul, in
the staple firm which those imports come,
which shall express in what country they
were produced or imnufaftured, thinks
proper to declare to the merchants at
Holland, that the order in that refeript
comes in force, only at the distance of
one month from the time of its publica
tion, in regard.to hicrchandife import
ed frchi the. French . Republic, Great
Britain, the Batavian, the Helvetic, and
the Italian Republics. For the other
countries in Europe it takes effe& at
the. end of two months from the date of
its publication. For the United States
of America, the term is prolonged to
four months.
‘ NATCHEZ’ t 9 .
Extract nf a letter from a gentleman in Nkw-
Orleans, dated March 11, 1803.’
,** Mr. Clark has arrived—he states,;
that on his departure from France, the
troops (H°° imder Gen. .Vidlor) were
on the wing, and will doubtless be here
in a. few weeks. .He saw arid conver
sed with the prefeft on the fubjeft of the
government of this province—indeed he
has brought all the .necefiary and po|fi
blc information, A.mmui up iii a number
of articles—l wish I could Tend them, to
yoft—as I cannot take what follows :
Ihe province will be governed by a
militany chief, a prefeft, and a commif
faty of justice; the departments, ape
diftinft, save that the governor can at
any time do away theafts of the pteleft
and commifiary of justice, on taking the
,re soon Ability on hjmfclf.—All ihemoni
ed bufinfls of the nation yvill be attached
to the office oT prefeft, forhething like the
present inter.danf, and civil jultice will
be adiriihiftered by the. coinmifTary, w’ho
will have under him a number * f magis
trates ; or in other words god *,
f'thething. like the .piefent. Alcaides of
the Spanish government. .A confiden
tial friend of the prefefts has been here
inmc days*—it is supposed he has copie
forward to learn fjmeihing of the people,
who are and whpaie not qualified to fill
offices under the approaching govern
ment. Not a doubt remains but a large
contribution will be exafted of the citi
zens of this place very soon after their
arrival. .
“ No four can he how exported— -when
onefe lauded, it cannpt be taken away.
A .decree of the intendant, to this effeft
will be pubiifhed to-morrow; provi
sions, vou know, mult be comeatable
for the French troops.”
w Lexington, April 5.
We have seen a letter from New-Or
leans, of the toth March, which Hates
that the port would be again doled on
that or the succeeding day—that it had
only been .opened for the reception of •
provisions; and no ether articles were
entered without beir-g smuggled that a
trader from .Kentucky had been detested
in imuggling his cargo, and was obliged
to fly .v/ith .precipitation, to eicape the
mines ovealaboufe—that Ameri
cans were confined in the pril'pns. . The
price ot cordage is Rated at five dollars
per ewt.._ No other prices mentioned.
For the Savannah Advertiser.
FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT.
William J. Hobby, )
vs >
Day and Hely. > n >
THIS w*an a£tion brougnt in the fifth
Circuit Court of the United State*, by the
plaintiff, William ‘ J Hobby, late Toft-Mdter
at. Augttfta#’ ft the.defendant*, Ambrose
Day end J.” lie* Hely, tor a falfcand tnalictoui
libel, publilhed in a paper,.edited and printed
by then?, in tided the Louslvilie Gazette and
Republican Trumpet; wherein the plaintiff,
then r*c?(t-mafter, Wa charged in subs'ar.se with
being in the havflt of committing alarming.a
bufet in hicim e, with detaining and fpme
mS* totally (upprefjjig letter*—.with And.
ing ne w fpapern ol a republican conr.pl-rxion
by wrong routr, destroying or detaining them
J till they became ufelefj—with, ** usi nc. no
j deliver y* paper*.of the drirntlr.n*.* to their
J fu.fciibcri Auputia,, and other, abuf:*
, which the publ'cation inf’nu te<(, had encrcaf
; ec to such a degree a* to occafwn numerou*
complain. t, and to beco” , e ot. public nocorit
ty... On charge* of tlii* iiigh and criminal na
ture, which, it tiue, neerffa-ily iev lived the
guilt oiIiRjURY, a* they conid not be cota
tpitted without.a violation ol the oath of of
fice, the plaintiff thought ptopei to afford the
defendant* au opportunity <*f producing their
proof* in a.court of julti e, and on Tuesday
[ lift the .cattle came on for trial in (hi* city,
when numerous a* it wa* pretended had been
the abufei, and genet ally a* they were alleag
ed to be known, not a (ingle witneU.wa*
produced to eltablifh any one of the allega
tion*, nor wat the minuted evidence offered
of a court ai nt again!! the ofific** having ever
exiited, but the whole puolication evidently
appeared to be totaity without founiauuc,
and to have originated in diabolical wicked
nef* and deliberate malice.—Alter a Jhort ar
gument by M,r. Bulloch’ for the defendant*,
and Mr. Walker for the pltintiff, thv cattle
wa* submitted to a jury of upright, impartial
nd honeff men, many of whom, though not
agreeing in political fentiment* with the
plaintiff, rightly conhdered and justly cttimat
ed the sacred right ot inuividuat reputation, dt
felt therafelve* bound by the eternal principle*
of jufftce, and whojaher retiring for a lew mo
ment*, returned a verdidt for tlw plaintiff, da
mage* two thousand dollar*. -
‘.Md—’ -Jg-L* 1 "L""!. 1 .-:j. J- “■ n ■ ■■ 1 | >m m 11 u 1 -
LOST,
A. POCKET BOOK, containing several
Note* of Hand; alfu, a number ot Account*
and other paper* that cannot be ot any lervtce
to to any person but the owner. It the finder
will b id obliging at .to levf it with Me lira
Sstmouk and Wo LMorna, they will be
rewarded for their trouble.-
CHARLES JOHNSON.
May 13 3* ... . *i ...
FOR SALE*
6000 Best ijpanifli SEG ARS,
20 Bbls. Havana SUGARS.
Which will be fold for cash.
March 1 1 —$. DIMAS PONCE.
BMW. lIU IMP ■ P ■■ -w m ‘ _U “ —, 1 , _
oAVANNAH, May 13.
*• Whit ire thr<%
So wither’d, and so wh i in their attire t
That look not like the inhabitant* o’ the earth,
And yet are on’t ?
1 y \
WE hid been induced to believe,
that the days of sorcery and ’witchcraft
had long since pafled away, or that if a
ny vestige of them remained at the pre
sent day, it was no where except in the
licensed imagination of the poet } but a
publication in the Republican of the 9th
inllant, extrafted from the Aurora ana ,
purporting to be a sketch of gen. Jack
son’s speech in the Senate of the United
States upon the Yazoo business, goes to
demonilrate ’Hat even tfcefe days are not (
wholly exempt from an implicit belief in
the incantations of the magician and
forcerels, and the worded solemnity with
whic’t Duane introduces it, together
with the place in which the matter of the
publication was delivered, give it an air
of seriousness calculated to impose upon
fomc, though it mull receive the fmiJc of
derision, from others. Stories of en
chantment arid conjuration, are ever sure
to meet with *. ready circulation among
certain chiles, but when related by men
of General jackfon’s celebrity, they are
certain to find their way to the ears and
notice of all classes of people, and we feel
a confcioufncfs of gratifying every de.
feripiions of our readers In r¥publilbirig
an account of a tranfaftion, supernatural
beyond ariy tiling in the occurrence rtf
k . V,./• “u ‘
these dap, Which in the language of Du
ane, ** will one day form a curious part
of our hillory.” We give the publica
tion from the Aurora entire :
■ A V
” from thi aUroea. ‘v
“ THH YAZ JO,SPECULATION.
“ This fubjeft had long kept open the
flood gates of fraud and fpecuiation,
and by the enormity of corruption in
which it. wzs conceived and execut
ed, call a deep (hade of di/honor-over
thewhole American nation 1 thatdiibon
pr was wiped away from the nation and
fixed upon the authors Sc .abettors of the
ignominy by a fub/e<Juent aft of public
justice, by the bold and signal aft of the
Georgia IcgiUatwe which decreed the
annihilation ,of the record* of the dis
honorable tranfaftion.— Congrels at
the last feflion, having afted . upon this ’
fit bj est so as to render Justice to thoje
who had been the, uniu’fpeftlng viftims
of the fraud, and the tide of iniquitous
fpecuiation being how checked in that
quarter,, we think it proper to give a ,
(ketch of the speech, of General Jackson
in rhe fentte of the United States on the
fubjeft, when the bill was before that
houl'e in committee of the whoje on the
bill for difpoiing of lands of the United
States south of Tenneflee. , Gen. Jack
f>n had moved ari amendment to the
bill for appropriating as much of the five
millions reserve as congrcfs might deem
fit to provide for quieting what jyas
termed Yazoo claims, To this Mr.
Ciinton moved a further amendment—
the purport of vyhich will be upderilood
from .general jackfon’s speech which
we give, as weil to guard the public
jgrind further spec rlations, as to record
the tafts which it contains, and which
will one day form a curious part of Our
hiftoryv .... ...... n
“ Mr, President—Although Ido not
ice the neceflity of the proposed amend
merit ‘.offered by the geptjerrian from
New-York, to, the. cne t have had the
honor to pro pole to the, bill, it birely
ieferr‘ng, back tp the fame commiffipn
ers the fame dtitjr, and may be follow
ed by the fame opinion ; yet as gen
tlemen are desirous of. it, 1 ill all not
particularly, oppoie it—But I beg to
be understood that 1 am opposed now,
and /half be at any future dayj to give
those applicants, .the millions which
the report contemplates—the report
jtfelf, does not, warrant it—it declares
tiie whole of the Yazoo transaction to
be ojqp of the molt abominably cor
rupt shat ever ltained the annals of
any country—the Mifljfippi. scheme for
which the celebrated law fuffered dis
grace, was half so atrocious, and
the south (ea (enfme of 1721, compared
with the Yazoo fpecuiation was. a. mere
bagatelle. Some members of the British
parliament were it is true concerned in
that bubble and their eltares paid for it.
But here, fir, was a legislature, a large
majority of whose members were bribed
to barter the rights of posterity, and in
turn bribed each other. The world has
never seen such cool .and I
hope never will again. Shall we en
courage future fpecuiation oh thpfip rights,
by rewarding the persons who have afted
thus ? I mult be permitted feoyvever, in
the face of the senate to Congratulate my
country, (Georgia) on trie report of the
commissioners j hes cordnft is'juftified,
her honor returned yn flatbed *0 her.
It appears by that report that the name
of but one Angle person of the majority
which pafled the iniquitous Iqw appear
ed not to be concerned in the aft ual pur
chafc of the territory fold—and further
declares that the titles of the Yazoo Com
panies could not be established iri a fait
court of law—the necessity of the su
preme jurifdiftion, the legiilativg powers
interfering, is manifeft—it was neceflary
to arrelV the gigantic ilrides of fpacula- .
(ion winch prfyadii the whole unio3l
and tended to destroy every honest and
odrtuous means of procuring a fubfiltcnce
—there was the utmoll danger of wait
ing the ,ordinary nrocefs of jultice—the
1 peculations, the fults, the prolecuiiona
wonld (till have becn\jn exiltence, and
rierhapsno decisive ftep> have been taken
an them —there was no time to until
the knot of l'pccularioh ; it was neccfTa
ry to cur it with the sword of power,
and lave th lufands from deftruftion.
“ 1 here alf), fir, in congratulating
my country, have a right to congratulate
tnylelf. The torrents of Calumny are
now ftertlm-J, in comm in with the state
to which 1 belong. I have as a leader
in restoring to unborn generations their
bartered tights, been abused, throughout
this union, .and not only here, but in the
prints beyond the itlaqtic for burning the
records and traces of this famious transac
tion—abuse, fir, of the hlackeft and viieft
nature, and which has not yet entirely
cealed—l also am juftified by the report
of the commissioners, and I glory in the
aft, as a precedent which I hope will be
copied in every flagrant intlance of alike
nature — s>j r , as if Heaven itfelf thought
proper to ihsw its refentm'’nt of the hafe
speculation—Mr jire which consumed the
gecords of it camp, from Htaveu —it was
no earthly fire *—An old man never s en
before, and Ido not believe has ever been
since,.at thp ssat of Georgia government ;
drew it from Heaven and as poors as they
puere disappeared. ■ ■ I however,
fir, believing that there are msny inno
cent persons involved, who bore no (hare
in the original crime, m ire readily give
way to,the amendment, wiffiing, as Ido
know my country does, that her aft of
justice, fltould be ended with an adl of
mercy. .. .. , ,
* It may not be in the knowledge of every
reader that an 1 immenf* tri4 of country
bordering on Fl itida and VjHr l?n j, wm by
a firm of bribery in the G orgia le<*. ff*ttiri #
convey*} into the hand* of the framer of ih
law. That 1 subsequent feg ffi'u e difcov.
■•ring the corruption, determined to over
turn the whole ftrutture of the speculation,
* n< }. 10 P Urit X ‘h* ftte from the in>q-iirv, to
ob.iterate it from history, and commit the
very records of it to Thi* wa* da
lernrlned and Vritecuuid in the in ft fotemn
manner. When the public fmittionarien
were (Tembled in the state hiufe (quareto
ttommii the. re gifts * of diftionor to the
flame*, a venerable grey-headed man, a (Iran
| get to all present, rode up to the throng, l and
I alighting made h is wtty to the officer* of the
| government. Hi* reverend grey hair* and af.
pefl altogether excited attention —he addressed
them, and eUclared that the rft of justice
which were about to perform bad led
him thither to- witnef* it, but. that he did not
think earthly flic (tumid be employed to man
itctl the iodtenation which, the occasion re
quired , but that the fire- (Would come front
ueaven——he took from hi* bolom a burning
lenrl and applying it to a heap of paper*, the
cni.fl igration wa* completed 5 and. mean while
the old man retired unperceived ; and upon
ei quiry, lor him, he waa not to be found, noy
wai h - known to any of thaoldeft inhauitanta
of Loutfvilia ”
i . • *V> ‘ v *•. f.h
----n sober seriousness we would en
quire, what is the reader to underltand
from the myftefy in which the conclu
fitih of this speech is enveloped ;—is he
to suppose, thut this “venerable grey
leaded man? was sent from hraven for
the eiprefs purpose of extrafting ethereal
fire from the ikies for the deftruftion
of the Yazoo records j or is he, in the
of the Monk, of Leyvis, to conclude
that this felf falne man, * venerable and
: v < .v •
grey headed,” wgs no other than the
“ Wandering Jew” of that fafhionable
literary necromancer,—the potency of
whose spells freeze with delight the veins
of the enchanted reader ? He must have
fome such belief, if he has any refpeft at
all for the authority of our Senator—
and the note is evidently to enforce it.—
We would, however, not be thought to
withhold any merit from Gen. Jack*
son that can possibly attach to him in
consequence of his detecting and expo
sing the iniquity of the Yazoo Sale; and
while he is content in taking the praise
of it to himfelf, we are willing with .the
rest of his fubjefts to cry •* well done’*—•
but when he thus aferibes a part of it to
supernatural agency, we feel ourselves at
liberty to interpose our doubts, tho’ he
may himfelf have said to his liege tools,
* 3
*f Your veffrl*, and your fpellt, provide,
YuUr charm*, and every thing beside” —
• : •* * 1 ‘ ’ l # v ‘
Nor readily grant otlr belief in his fuc
cefs, even though his friends may think
him felicitus in the further language of
Shakefpere’s Hecate—
• tJpon ‘he corner of the moon, • 4
There hmgt a vaporoua drop profound |
I'll e*rH ir ■■ 1 —1
Ana that, difttll’d by magic flight*,
Shall raise such artificial fprigbt*
At
Jos*H Turn**, E‘q Simons,
it appointed Colit dor of the Cgftpmt for the
Diftnd of Brunswick, ia the room of Clav
Tbome*ox, E(q
ARRlVED—Jchoonci GeoigesndOphilia,
Winlay, N Pinvidcpce
. CLEARED —Ship George, Grecnoutffc,
Hamburg. Br<g< Happy Couple, Stark*, N.
York; Georgia, Rog fn, ditto.
ASSIZE for May, 1803.
1 The price of Flour being fcven dollar* and
fifty cents per band, Bread lot this month
must weigh, vis,
i*3 ct loaf. | 6} eta. loaf,
aih. 90s. I 1 lb. 43°** ‘
Os which ail Baker* and Seller* of Brtu*
u* to tike due notice. . , . . .ui<o
John gibbons, cay TwjjPy