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»es« : tut, oi»! how (lull I te!! the sequel ? Whether the butler by i accident mirtook, or purposely designed to drive me mad, he gave me the strongest brandy, with which I filled iny nwcith aiready flay ed andbhfteredf totally unuled to every kind of ardent spirits, with my tongue, throat, and palace, as raw as beef/-what couldT do ? I could not swallow, and clapping luy bauds upon my mouth, the curse l liquor squirted through my nose and finders like a fountain over all the dithes ; and I was ciufhed by bursts of laughter from ill quarters. lu vain did Sir Thomas reprimand the fervauts, aod Lviy Friendly ch.dc her daughters ; tor the tneaiurc of my flume and their diverliou was not yet compieat. To relieve me from the in tolerable state of perforation which this accident had canfed, with- , out confidermg What 1 did, I wiped my face with that ill-fated hand kerchief, which was still wet from the consequences of the fall of Jftns/fhon. and cuvered all my features with streaks of ink in every direction. The Baronet himfelf could not support this thick, but 0 joined his lady in the general laugh ; while I sprung from the table in deipair, ruihed out of the house, and ran home in an agony of - and disgrace, which the most poignant feni'e of guilt could .have excited. - Thus, without having deviated from the path of moral rectitude, lam fufleriug torments like a * goblin damned/ The lower half ot ine has been almost boiled, my tongue and *’.outh grill’d, and I bear the mark of Cain on my forehead ; yet these are but trifling confideratiuns to the everlafling (bathe which I mud feel whenever this adventure fliall be mentioned ; perhaps by your adiftancc, when my neighbours know how much I feel on the occafiun, they will spare a bafhfd man, and (as I am just informed shy poultice is readv) I trust yoir will excufc the haste in which I fubferibe mvfclf, Your, Sc c. MONGRELL MORELL. AVGUST A, April n. GEORGIA. By his Honor GEORGE WALTON, Esq. Captain-General, Go vernor and'Commander in Chief in and over the said State. A PROCLAMATION. m #BT ■'QT TH EREA Sin pursuance of the Ordinance of Cou cy mr miflioners for Indian Affairs in the Southern Depirt * , * mem, tne Executive of this State did, by thc.r At\ of the yth mftant, order and appoint, (the Siiperintendant being ab sent,) that the eighih day of June next ihould be the time, and the South margin of the Okonee river, oppolite to the Rock Landing, the place, for holding a Treaty with ihe Creek Indiaus: I HAVE, THEREFORE, thought fit, with the advice of the Honorable the Executive Council, to issue this my Proclamation, notifying the fame to the people at large, and to all others whom it may concern. And, in the mean time, it is hereby injoined and required, that the truce < heretofore agreed on, be inviolably pieferved on the part of this state. •; GIVEN under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the said State, ' in the Council Chamber, at Augufla, this tenth day of April,- in the Year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and j eighty-nine ; and in th • thirteenth Year of the Independence of the United State# of America. GEORGE WALTON. By his Hmor's Comma# «/* JOHN MILTON, Secretary . GOD SAFE THE STATE. GEORGIA. By his Honor GEORGE WALTON, Esquire, Captain-Genera!,' Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the said State. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the Executive, on the ninth ipftant, ordered and directed that the troops now in service Ihould be furlough ed Until farthet orders ; that the non-commiflioned offi cers and privates who had iiiilbihaved in the Eastern Diftrid Ihould he forgiven, upon »helr figure good behavior and obedience; and that the State Agent Ihould fumifh cloathing for the whole of the troops without delay; I HAVE, THEREFORE, thought fit, with the advice of the Honorable the Executive Council, to issue this my Proclamation, notifying to all the troops now in service, that they are to conlider thcmldves under furlough until farther orders j that they are to hold thethfelvcs ih Cl>n ft ant readiness again to be called into service at the ihorteft notice; and that they are commanded forth with to deliver their arms to the Infpedor-Geuerali or to Ilia order, to be put and "kept in repair. * GIVEN under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the said State, in the Count,! Chamber, at Augusta, this tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and e ghty-ninc; and in the thirteenth Year of the Independence of the United States of America. GEORGE WALTON. By bis Honor*s Command , JOHN MILTON, Secretary. GOD SAFE THE STATE . By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS aflembled, July i e, On motion of the Delegates for Georgia, 7 */ ’ Whereas it is represented to Congrefi by the Delegate! of the flite of Georgia, that the principal parti of the frontier! of that tlate have been for several yean past invaded and kepi iu a state of alarm by the Creek Indian# ; that the fighting men of that uatiou, f ppofed to amount to not Ufa than fix thousand, have been so far t juftjgaedby lefugeea and fugitive tradera, who had formerly escaped jrom thcle Hates and ukcu icfugc amuug them, as to keep up con* flarrt and bloody cn the different parts of that frontier, and that the settlements of four of the exterior counties are almost entirely broken up. Rt/oi-vtJ, That the Superintendaut and Commiflioners for th« Southern Department be inftrufted, if they lhall find it necessary, to notify to the said Indians, that ihould they persist in refuting to enter into a treaty upon reafonablc terms, the arms of the United States (hall be called forth for the proteftion of that frontier. Ordered , That the Secretary at War report to Congress a plan for carrying into effert the purposes fpecified in the preceding Re lolve, as nearly as may be upon the principles of the Pvefolution of the 21st July last, for the prote&ioa of the frontiers of Penufylva nia and Virginia. CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary . We hear that the Honorable Mr. Osborne, one of the Commis sioners of Indian Affairs, will set out in a few days from this place to meet the Superintendant and the other Coramiffioners, to concert the measures necellary for holding the treaty with the Creek Indians. On Monday last the following gentlemen were elefted members Os the Convention for ratifying the proposed Constitution of this state : For Burke county : The Honorable Hugh Lawson, Esquire, Hon. William Little, Esq. and David Emanuel, Esq. For Richmond county : Honorable William F. Booker, Colonel Leonard Marbury, and Mr. Abraham Marfliall. For IVtikes county: Johu Talbott, Esq. Mr. Jeremiah Walker, and Mr. Silas Mercer. For Green County: Joseph Carmichall, William Danicll, and Henry Karr, Efqrs +*+ By Authority—The Georgia State Gazette and Independent R'iijter will in future be known by the title of “The AUGUSTA CHRONICLE and GAZETTE of the STATE.” ■« -A,*.* HOUSE of ASSEMBLY, Wednejday, February 4,- 17H9. (Concluded from our last.) WILKES. THE returns for this county have been' made by the Clerks, and payments made thereon in the following manner: 1783. Amount of return, o 01-4 Deduct for commif fiouand mileage, 7 o 5 I*4 Paid John Martin, then Treasurer, by Richard Aycock, Collector, C 6 17 7 1785. The return for this year is so irregularly made, that your Committee are not competent to ieport the amount. Paid George Jones, then Treasurer, by Thomas VVootcn, Collector, v 1126 n jo i;B 6. Amount of return, as added up by Mr. Briggs, Clerk to the Committee of Fi nance, January Session, 1788, exclu sive of Colonel Thomas Wooten’s diftrid, 2780 4 11 1-4 Add the return ofCof; Wooten’s diftrid, 133 12 7 2913 27 6 1-4 Deduct some over charges per the certificates of the Clerk, 2 7 3 soil 10 3 1-4 Deduft also for insol vents, per three attested lifts of the Collector 170 18 3 v . , + , raid George Jones, then Treafurer,by William Triplett Collector, ,234 g 0 lm% Paid Johu Meal 6, Treasurer, by do. 1390 14 2 3.4 II - , - , _ . 2^2 S 2 3 1-4 Commiffiofi, Clerk’s & Receiver’s fees, 115 9 9 * m £• 2740 12 o 1-4 Your Committee find, from the information of John Meals, Trea* surer, that tince his settlement with the Collector for the year 1786, the'Auditor has examined the General Return for that year, and makes the fame amount to more than Mr. Briggs, former Clerk to the Committee of Finance, by 1421. u«. U( j ~4. 2787. Amount of return, exdufive of a great many defaulters, *B*2 o ft Paid to John Meals, * * Treasurer, by Na thaniel Coats, Col. 2130 14 8 Commiffiou & other charges, 94 j P 5 3*4 '