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LIST OF ACTS Passed during the Session of the Legislature for the year 1818. 1. An act to pardon Rebecca Wootton. 2. An act to paidon Tiiomas Bassett. 3. An act to authorise tlie justices of the in ferior court of Oglethorpe county, to levy an j extra lax, etc. 4. An act to appoint trustees of the Jackson county academy, and to incorporate the same. 5. An act to ameikl an act entitled an act, to amend Uie third section of an act entitivd an act, j pointing out the duty of sheriff's in selling lands under execution, etc. 6. An act to incorporate the New Pp*t baptist 1 church in Liberty county. 7. An act to remove and make permsnent the scite of the public buildings of M‘lntosl county, at the town of Darien. 8. An act to appoint commissioners fir better regmating and governing the vinage of Salem. 9. Act to aiter and amend the fourteenth sec tion of an aCt entitled an act to protect the es tates of orpnane, etc. 10. An act to incorporate Sardis academy, in Jasper county. 11. An act to authorise the inferior courts of \Viikinson and Wiikes counties to levy extra tax s, etc. 12. An act to authorise the inferior court of Jasper county, to levy an extra tax. 13. An act more effectually to secure the good citizens of tnis state in their titles to their lands on tne several streams and water courses in the same. 14. An act to amend and explain the several acts heretofore passed in relation to tne town and common of Wrigntsborougn, in the county of Columbia. 15. An act to authorise the trustees of Marion academy, in the county of Twiggs, to til. suc.i vacancies as may hereafter happen in the board of trustees. 16. An act to authorise the Roman Catholic church in Augusta, and tne trustees of each and eve y other church in the said city, to rent out a pa. i of the lots conveyed to them for religious purposes. 17. An act to authorise the justices of the in ferior court of Columbia county, to levy an ex tra tax. 18. An act to a.ter and amend a part of the fiis section of an act, passed tue 10th Decem be;, 1817, and to apportion the road labor in the county ot (Lynn, so far as respects the islands ot Si Simon’s and Jckyi. 19. An act to alter and amend an act entitled an act, to levy a tax lor tne support of govern- Tnc.it loi tne political year 1816, passed tue 16th December, 1815, and aisc- to alter and am. ;.d an act passed the 19th December,* 1816, entitled an act—to prevent the circulation of notes emitted by unenartered banks, and for other purposes. 20. An act to authorise the inferior coud of Bmke county, to levy an extra tax. 21. An act to authorise uie inferior court of Washington, to levy an extra tax. 22. An act to increase the salaries of public officers of this state. 23. An act to incorporate the Eatonton acade my library society, in toe county of Putnam. 24. An act to incorporate the bank of Darien. 25. An act to aiter and amend the first section of the third article of tne constitution. 26. An act to incoi poi ate tne “Union Axe and Firemen,” of the city of Savannah. 27. An act to after tne time of holding the in ferior courts and the spring term of tne superior court of the county of Madison, and the spring teimofthe inferior court of the county ot Wiikes. 28. An act-to authorise the justices of the in ferior court of 1 eifair county io levy an extra tax for the purpose of building a court-house and gaoi in said county. .29. An act to aiter and amend the fourth sec tion of the second article of the constitution. 30. An act to dispose of, and distribute tne late cessions of land, obtained from tne Creek and Cherokee Indians. 31. To incorporate the baptist church at Be tliesda in Green county. 32. To secure to John Courts, for the term of ten year's, the exclusive right of running a line of stages between Darien and Miiledgeviile. 33. lo authorise tne inferior courts ol RiiJi mand and Jefferson counties, to adopt measures and levy a tax for keeping roads and bridges in repair. 34. To repeal so much of the act passed 19tn December, 1817, appropriating money for tne improvement of the internal navigation of the state, as makes the appropriation tor Savannah and Tugalo rivers conditional:—and to make tne said appropriation independent. 35. To make Darien a city, and to amend the act incorporating the same. 36. To amend an an for the better regulation of the town of Danic isviile. 37. To repeal an act to revise and amend the road laws, as far as respects Laurens county. 38. To incorporate Sparta academy. 39. To incorporate Hillsborough academy, in Jasper. 40. To amend the road laws of M‘lntosh coun ty- -41. To change the name of Betsy Duke to Betsy Duhart. 42. To amend an act, to establish a mayor’s court in the city of Savannah, etc. 43. To authorise the inferior court of M‘ln tosh to levy an extra tax for support of the pool. 44. To authorise the inferior court of Jones county to levy an extra tax -45. To authorise the inferior court of Ema nuel tc dispose oi the public lots belonging to the county. 46. To authorise the university of Georgia to execute titles Franklin county. 47. To alter and amend the road laws. 48. For tne relief of Alexander Gordon. 49. To exempt from military duty, certaif in dividuals, not citizens of the United States. > 50. To authorise the commissioners oi die A lalamana river, to cut two canals. 51. To divorce Tabitha D. and Thomas Ua pier. 52. To authorise the inferior court of Lincoln county, io transcribe the records of their courts into bound books. 53. To ament an act to prohibit slaves fivm 1 selling certain commodities. 54. To amend an act passed in 1798, for lie regulation of the town of Louisville, etc. 55. To prevent assignments or transfers of property to a portion of creditors, to the exciu- 1 sion and injury of others, by persons who fai in trade, etc. 56. To appropriate monies for the political year 1819. 57. For the relief of Anderson and Jeter Hirfks. 58. To amend an act authorising the inftfior courts to discharge insolvent debtors, passdf in 1809. 59. To relieve criminals and others confined in gaol. 60. To incorporate the Savannah steam-ship company. 61. To divorce Nancy and Jesse Thompson. 62. To repeal an a t passed tire 16th Decem ber, 1811, and uie act passed the 19th Decem ber, 1816, on tne subject of tire penal code of tnis state, and to amend the act pass and the 20th December, 1817, to amend the penal code of tins state. 63. To amend the act to carry into effect the penal code. \ 64. To organize the counties of Walton, Gwynneti., Haft and HaLe sham, etc. 65. To uutnorise tne inleiior court of Rich mond county, to sell the court-house and otlrer property, etc. 66. To incorporate the Savanublr river navi gation company. 67. For uie better management of the estates of ieftots. lunatics and persons insate. 68. Fc authorise John S. Giascotk and others t practice law in tnis stale. 69. for the reliel ot Francis Williamson. 70. To iay off six judicial circuits. 7 1. To revise and consolidate the militia laws and repeal tne tavany iaws. 72. Fo lease to Jane Rucker, the lot she now occupies on t e town common of Miftedgeville. 73. 1 o explain and enforce the judiciary act of 1799, as respects special pleading, etc. 74. 1 o establish tne lees of tne public officers on grants sot land laUiy obtained. 75. lo vest tne buiiai ground of Augusta, in the trustees of the protes.a..t episcopal church. 76. To amend tne 4th and sth sections of the 3d article of the constitution. 77. To extend the powers of sheriffs and con stables in cei tain cases. - 78. To grant powers to the commissioners of pilotage of the port of Darien. 79. To .ai*.- (iff the act of confiscation the name of John M*Cormick. 80. To limit tne time for persons to take out grants on lands surveyed on head-rights and coun ty warrants. 81. Toconsolidate and amend the acts for the better regulation of the town oi Miiledgeviile. 82. To prevent the issuing and circulating of unchartered notes. 83. To raise a tax for tin* political year 1819. 84. To establish a company for the inland navi gation from Ogechee to Savannah river. 85. Pointing out the mode of collecting a cer tain description of debts. 86. ’Fo lay off'streets in the town of Jeffersdn. 87. An act to transfer unto H. S. Wardrobe, widbw of the late colonel Wm. Wardrobe, a dc ceas and alien, and hei heirs and assigns, all the right and iuc cf t,e state to a certain tract of and on the island of S . Si nous, in the county of Giynn. 88. To render navigable the Oconee river a bove Miiledgeviile to Hudson’s Ford in Clarke county. 89. To compensate persons who have or shall s; ize African negroes illegally introduced into tiie state. 90. Appropriating money for the improvement of Bi ier creek. 91. To amend the 7th section of the Ist article of the constitution. 92. More effectually to enforce an act respect ing free persons of color. 93. To incorporate the Savannah free tw.lvooj society. 94. To continue in force for 10 years the act stablishing a ferry over tire Alatamaha at Fort Barrington. 95. To authorise the inferior court of Pulaski county to levy an extra tax. 96. To amend the act incorporating the town of Brunswick, &c. 97. To establish certain ferries at the conflu ence of Savannah and Broad rivers. 98. To incorporate the stock-holders of the Sa vannah Theatre. 99. To define the limits between the counties of Hancock and Washington. 100. To extend the jurisdiction of the mayor’s court of Augusta. Ron IVv , the famous highland chieftain, so distinguished in a late popular work bearing his name, died a natural death, at his own house in the Braisof Balquhidder, about the year 1738, am! was buried in the church yard of that, parish. R h Roy, who was executed in Edinburgh on the 4th of February, in 1754, was his youngest son. LATEST FROM ENGLAND. Charleston, December 23. Wc yesterday received by the s,,ip Factor, captain Hamilton, in 25 days from Madeira, Lon don papers of the 27th and 28th October, several days later than before received. They contain no news of importance. Sornp extracts will be found in tnis day's paper. It appears by the French papers, that instead of one single treaty binding all the powers in tne same obligation, France has concluded a separate convention to the same effect witli each of tue allies. Captain Hamilton informs us, that he saw at Madeira, London prints as late as the 7th Nov. but could not obtain any. They were principally , occupied with accounts of tne arrival almost dai ly, of detachments of the army of occupation from France. Nearly all the sovereigns composing the congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, had visited Par is, after the adjournment; having left their minis ters and agents to settle the minor points in dis cussion, and to close the business. The queen’s health appears to have been much the same as our last accounts left ic. Daily reports were still pubiisned by her attending phy sicians. London, October 27. We have received French papers to the 26th. The elections are proceeding witn rapidity, and j the interest which they excited naturally decreas es as their probable results begin to reveal them selves. Messrs. Menager and de St. Cricq, (die j director-general of the customs) have already i been elected for the department of Seine and; Marne. The ultra liberals had made powerful i exertions to procure the return of the veteran La Fayette, but he was still tne last on the list, wnen ttvo out of three members re ;uired had been enosen. A private letter from Manchester, dated Oct. 21, gays—-“ The cotton-spinners are in f lift and ac tive employment; and from the immense foreign orders tiiat are daily arriving for twist, there is no likelihood of any immediate slackness in their operations. In addition to me immense quanti ties recently sent off for Russia, and Hamburgh, very extensive ordeis are now under hand for tne same destination. Were no fresh oiders to ar rive, I am given to understand tnat it win take a considerable time to complete tnose already con tracted for; and there is every reason to hope that the stagnation in our own demand, will shortly cease, as the extensive trade which is daily in creasing with South-America, bids fair to com pensate for any declension we may suffer in our commerce with the United States.” An English snip coming from Bombay, was lately wrecked near Suez. The whoie cat go, which was for account of the Pacha of Egypt, and was estimated at 250,0 >0 piasters, is lost. Sir Gregor MacGregor sai.s in a few days for South-America, in tne brig Hero. October 28. A Madrid article states, that the Marquis de Cnaa Yrujo %• \u>t to V> th mil Aster for foieigi* affairs, but that the porte-feuiile of t at depart ment is to be placed in t..e hands of either of don Lozano de Terres, or of don Pierre Gomez La brador. The accounts from Aix-la-Chapelle state, that the ratification of England to the convention, for the evacuation of France, arrived there on tne 18th instant. An article from Valenciennes says, that the conferrcnces at Aix-la-Chapeuc will close on the 4th of next month. A letter from Margate, dated the 25th instant, says—“ The typhus fever has lately been raging here to an ala ruing extent.” The following is an extract of a letter from Dover, dated on Monday:—“lmmense quantities of baggage,belonging to the a. my of occupation. continue daily to be landed from France, and tins morning one of the Cualftam lighters came in with 200 men, the sick and invalids of th> differ ent regiments about to embark so E..g.and.— Upwards of 40 waggons and carls nave bee., pressed to day from tnis town and neighborhood for the removal of the baggage ami sick. A mini-’ ber of vessels have sailed from this port witnin the last three days to bring over the army, the fiist division of which may he expected dourly.” Mr. Buchanan, of Greenock, author of the Walks of Clyde, has transmitted to Mr. Walter Scott, the broch of Rob Roy’s wife, the Scottisn Amazon, Its circle appears to be of silver, stud ded with what was once the vogue, bristow. It is sad that its authenticity cannot be disputed. Valenciennes, Oct. 21. The duke of Wellington arrived in this city yesterday. He was accompanied by oniy two aids-de-camp. Private Letters from Paris , October 22. The emperor Alexander will not remain twen ty-four hours in Paris, as I informed you in my last letter. He will sup, have an interview witn the king, and set off in the night. The king oi Prussia will make a little longer stay—nis apart ments are ready at the hotel of his ambassador. No one here believes she reports wnicii arc cir culated relative to the misunderstanding between the three sovereigns. It is generally considered that these rumors arc only the invention of ma levolent characters or stock-jobbers. Baron Alexander dc Humboldt is expected in Paris to-day, on iiis return from Aix-la-Chapelle. A report prevails that he will succeed the count de Goltz, who would be appointed to the Prussian embassy at London. It is now decidedly known that the last loan for the liberation of the territory has been exclusive ly negociated with the house of Baring and La bouchere, and their clients. It is confidently said that the number of the ex iles who have obtained leave to return to France is only eight. Marshal Soultand general Grou chy were, it is said, to have been included; but a further delay has been resolved respecting them, and also the poet Amauit. It is stated that the duke I)* \ngnulemc has given anew proof of Via generous ami noble disposition, by earnestly sol. citing the return of gcuci ai Grouchy, thus forget ting the aggravated wrongs he experienced dur ing the unhappy campaign in the* south, in 1815, Aix-LA-CturEii.r., Oct. 18. The English have recently disc barged a great number ol foreigners who served in their corps d’atnice in France. There are s--me regiments almost wiiolly disbanded. They were principal ly Germans, who were made prisoners of tvar in Spain, and afterwards entered into the service of England. Several of them, being natives of tne Rhenish provinces, have recently passed through Aix-ia-Chapolle. The documents yesterday transmitted to con gress, consist of, first, the report of judge Biand, one of the commissioners sent by the executive to South-America, occupying nearly 300 closely written folio pages. Secondly, a letter from Mr. J. R. Poinsett, of South-Cai oiina, to the secretary ol state, commu nicating, by ■ equest of tne executive, such infor mation respecting South-America, and itsall'ai s, as nis iong residence in those countries, and sub sequent twerefroiir, nave enabled nun to give. This letter is also very long, filling ab ut 200 folio pages. Tnirdljr, of correspondence between the secre tary of state and don Louis dc Onis, the minister of Spain, from the 23d of March to the 30ln of November last, inclusive, occupying about 250 folio pages. Fourthly, correspondence between Mr. Er ving, American minister at the court of Spain, and don Jose Pi.arro, Spanish secretary of state, f om the Btli of July to the 31st of August inclu sive, fi li. gmoie than 100 pages. li would appear, from the call yesterday made by the house of representatives on tne president of the United States, that something is yet want ing, to complete tne chain of information-— Xat. Intel. Dec. 16. The statement of the amount of discounts at ?he i cspectivo offices of discount and deposit of the bank of tne United Sraies, has created a con siderable sensation in most of our cities. The dispi oportion of me amount of discounts at the several branches, is, indeed, at tne first giance, sufficiently great, a,id impresses the mind with the belief that discounts have been made, by the mother bank and its bi anchi s, move to accommo date speculators in its* stock, tnan enterprising merchants or industrious citizens. But a wri ter in the Federal Gazette, lias thrown out a sug gestion on the subjc t, which is entitled to con sideration. The bai.x (he says) like all ether corporations, owes a preference to its members; the government of u.e United Staus a targe sto, kaoider, for instance, crj ys advantages of aa exclusive nature —and it is reasonable, it is srid.that t. e other stockholders should, in pro p r o . to their respective interests, enjoy ivcry at v tage, net-inconsistent with its charter, wnich t ,o ftii e- ors can conveniently grant to them.— On these premises, the disproportion of the amount of discounts, the writer says, stands fully justified—the amount of loans at otherbrancl.es, in proportion to the stock held there, being actu ally greatet than either at Philadelphia or Baiti moie, w e e much the largest discounts have bem mace.— ib. Dec. 17. •mmm The question respecting the M ssachusettS claim, came up, in the routine of business in the house es repi esen atives on Friday last; but, by the course it took the public are disappointed of the anticipated debate and decision. Tlu uulo cates of the claim were unwilling to take it up, and, by theii desire, the bill siumbers on the ta ble until the termination of the session shaft ter minate also its exi t- nee. T .ere is not, we be lieve, tl e i*. as’ pi s ev t of its b ing called up du ing he presen session; and, if n were caned up, the p o- ei dings of yesterday indicate the cer tainty ot its r je< tion.—Of the probability of this fate, it is presumed tne friends of tne bill were aware, and therefore declined consuming the time ot the house by a fruitless discussion; pr. f r ring rather to take their chance at a future con gress,.when time shaft have mellowed the re collection of the occurrences connected with tnis claim, and softened the asperity which some of them were calculated to excite.— ib. Dec. 19. Extract of a letter to the editor of the Weekly Register, dated“Ojielousas, Nov. 5. ‘'The restless Lallemand has left the Trinity; bis followers, poor deluded beings, are arriving • ■ere daily, almost naked and half famished. — A kind if proclamation has just been received here from general Juan de Castanado, command mg (500 or 700 it ib said) Spanish troops tump ed on the Sabine, addressed “to the nearest au thorities of the congress of the United States,” staling that lie had come from the interior for tne purpose of driving off” the pirates residing at Galveston, which he says belongs to Spain, pray ing the authorities to quiet the public mind, as his intentions Were not hostile to the U. States. “ 1 his manifesto will be sent on by this mail to \\ ashington City, from whence you will no doubt gi t a perfect copy. The dons as usual are a day after the fair. Crops here are promising; negroes high, and lands looking up, awaiting the current of i migi ation, which has set this way.” A \ew-Oi leans paper of the 12th November, says “ I be establishment at Galveston, has at length been broken up, and general Humbert, with his suit, has arrived in this city: they were found on board of a vessel which has arrived in the l iver, as a prize to the U. States ketch Sur prise, lieut. M‘Keever. We are ignorant of the real cause of this abdication of the chief, and the dispersion of the band. Some say that an agent of the American government ordered them away—others assert that the vicinity of the Span ish army from St. Antonio, occasioned so much uneasiness to them that they deemed it best not to remain.’*