device to fucKjwerumeutt are perfuad-* t
' ei, that oue gene ai iatered, **> the f ibject
ot peace and war, i* wi/ely placed under the
dirt&ion of the Executive of the United
Braies, and the enclofurea accompanying
your Excelleacy*# MvfTage fully juftitf the
ohferration. The le'ier of the Secretary at
V? ir , in regard tj the d-fpafit.oo of such
troops, fully evinces a proper attention to
the dignity of the government of this (fate ;
and we apprehend no mifchief can puflib y
a rife from their arrival, or danger ensue,
should their number* at any time be aug*
mented.
It undoubtedly is the with of our confti
tueute to have a permanent peace eftabliihed
with the Indians, and their property protect
ed ; the meafureß adopted by the general
government clearly demonstrate that peace is
preferred to war, yet to be prepared for
emergencies is* the surest method to obtain
not only fuccels in peaceful DCgociations, but
add refpeftability to the United States, and
dignity to this date.
The resolution of the General Assembly of
♦be »6th Januarv, 1789, was properly enter
ed into, to effed the defiied purpose it com
prehends ; and as the organization of the
Fedeial Conflitution took place, lubfequent
to such resolution, the objed which it em
braced, became of consequence transferred
to '}he United States; and the ad for-dif
charging the ffate troops, tended to complete
the with of the people of this date, that the
business of peace and war,- fhouid run in its
proper channel;
In case of aay ifailure of negotiation with
the Indiaus under the.authority of the United
States, the co-operation of the militia of this
slate, with the federal troops, can only arise
frotn # the neceirny of thecafe<; and your Ex
cellency commanding, such militia,rand pof
fefling the Executive authority ofihra date,
will, we are allured, exert thatrauthority to
'the intered, dignity, and welfare of the go
vernraenr, whenever, meafurea require such
exertions.
The compensating the date troops difeharg
ed, as also an adjustment of accounts, and an
infpedion into the condud of tax colledors
with other officers ot government, will, in
proper season, meet the attention of the Se
nate.
We fball be better enabled to form a pro
per judgment on the ffate of the funds, iub-
Ittitied by your Excellency, so soon as the
proper officers lay befoie us their documents.
It is at the fame tune flittering, to find by
your Excellency*, feutiinent, that there is so
laige a balance in favor of the date This
sum, paid according to the nature of the fe
deral contrads, from which it arises, cannot
but place our (fate creditors on a fur-e footing
•i receiving their debts according to the funds
appiopriaie i fur their redemption, but leave
a confidence I'um-iaJpecre jo aufwer, futuie
appropriations.
In regard to the payment-of debts due-to
the Hate, the laws and resolutions palled re
seeding the cases to which they alludt, speak -
for themfeives, and the surest guide is to be
governed by the law or resolution expressing t ,
thefenfe of the Legifiature on the fev,eral con
trads, and according to their reipedive vases,
to. which such law or resolution particularly -
appertains. ,
It is with regret we find that any order on
the Tceafury, your Excellency may have had •
occasion to draw, were not pn funds more im
mediately produftive; and it is a misfortune
we have to deplore with your Excellency,
that the deranged ftatc of our'finance#, with
the improper season <o£ the year, to burthen
our constituents wwh any immediate or other
taxes, in aid of the diflaut funds already ap
propriated fur the relief of* >he public.officer*,
in their refpedive fituatioyc r (Who ought *(-
furedly to be paid for their services.) are evils
that can only be remedied by time..
The general militia is of
infinite consequence to thie, as well as the
other United braces; and as 4 genera) regu*,
laiton will probably soon take pine, it will, •
we apprehend, only be proper te enforce the
•lifting militia laws, so as to obtain returns
from the proper officers, fubjed in your Ex
eellency ssCommander in Chief of such mi
litia.
! he ad to ascertain the falariea and fees of
tbtpufcic ertuera of Una late, iaot confe.
, quence to the people, end undoubtedly wiff
meet the attention of this fiou(ei
By or den of eke Senate,
N. BROWNSON, P, ejiuent efijx
Senate- .
. In Senate , June I <9, * 79°
To hit Excellency EDWARD TET FAIR,
Ejq utre, Governor and Cpmtnanaer in Lhej
0/ the 6tate of Georgia*
The Add ref* of the House of Reprefetrtativer
in General Affcmbly met.
S I R t
*-| HE House *>f Representatives have hld
under coufideration the business re- *
. commended in yoiw: Meffage,-.and upomwhich
you have requerted our fentintents.
We are lorry to find that* you ffioulri he
under any concern far of the fet
ters on the frontiers, in conlequence of the
arrival of the federal troop*, aud tho i«>h un
solicited on the part of your Excellence, we
cannot but consider that the general govern
ment has consulted the fafety and prosperity
of tnis slate by fending those troops.
The refoiution alluded to by vour Excel
lency, of the 16th January, 1789,, was pis
sed previoue to the organization of ihe Fe
deral Government, and could only operate
until that event took place, when the power
of making war and peace, ratfing and sup
porting armies,‘providing f or the common
defence and- general . welfare of the United
States, entering into treaties, and regulating
commerce with the Indian tribes, was ve.ted
in Congress ; and therefore any negotiations
with the Creeks, however amicably they mar
be-disposed, other wife than through that chan
uel, will be improperly directed.
The act for difeharging the Rare troops,
/was not only expedient, but beca me indifpetr
' Able* after the Rate had adopted the Federal
Conflitution 01- - V
i We observe with prlea Cure, frerm the en
ckrfures accompanying your melTage, that
the general government is difpbfed - to efta
blnh a firm peace wish* the Indians, on the
broad balls of juflice and humanity ; and we
fl liter ou lie Ives, that such measures have been
adopted, as will speedily enlure to this Rate
that blessing.
Exposed to the depredations of rhe Indians,
and luflrring under manr other inconveni
eiicieß from being a frontier slate, it was the
policy of Georgia to adopt the Federal Go
vernment at an early period ; and we not on
ly find her among the foremoft, but unani
mous in acceding to the Confederation, an
ticipating those advantages which would na
turally \be derived from an efficient general
government. Should it become necessary,
-wear* well assured that the force of the Union
will !>e.,fo direfbed as to promote the intereil
and dignity of the United States-
In. our opinion, it will be impracticable to
accomplilh a final fettlcmem of the accounts
of, those who have been entuifted with the
public monies, as neeefiaiily extend
the session to an unusual length of time at this
inconvenient season of the year; we (hall,
however* pay as much attention to that part
of your Excellency’s MelTage, as-relates to
the finances, of tlua Rate,. as the nature of the
bufinels requires, and time* will admit.
The refoiution of t*e nth January, 1788,
only empowers the Treasurer to receive au
dited claims in difeharge *>f such obligations
as were.then in his office; in all other cases,
payments to the Treafury* except f ( ,r taxes,
cannot in our opinion be received, but in the
paper medium of this Rate, or in specie.-
By order of the House ,
SEABORN‘JONES, Speaker*
* ■&§<&*#§*#
L O N. D O N, March to*
The Grand Duke of Tuscany, the heir of
' the House of Außiia, is dißinguiihed by the
. befl of characters;--thofe** travellers' who
have been honored by adiniffira*to his taMe,
at. Florsnce, speak wi*h admiration of his
grest politeness, stability, information, sud
accumplilhmeiits; and it redouuda not a lit
tle to his ciedit, that.our late great Philaii.
thrupifl, Mr Howard, deferihed him ae 1
vtiy humane and eulighteiiad Prince.
Pofitiee advices are received from Vienna,
. tiwt iU iuipcrut hat at latt ioiihed hn eaub
■
1 fy eareer. He expired on the aoMi of ?e
--biuary, at five ii> the morning, in the arms
of an attendant, in thea6tlvyear of his rei«n,
and - the 49th of his age. As King of Hun
gary and Bt hernia, he was only in the 10*
year. He succeeded to the Imperial Crown
on the death of hit father Francis, ®n the
'1 Oth of Auguß, 1705 ; and to the hereditary
dominions of the Houle of Austria, on the
death of his mother, the 29th of November,
*7BO. He was twice married, firft to a
?:incefs of Parma, then to one of the Prin
cefles of the House of Bavaiia; but, having
no'iffue by either of them, the fucceflion to
>the hereditary dominions will devolve on his
brother, Peter Leopold Joseph, Grand Duke
lof Tuscany.
The particulars of his lung illness are Well
known. Some account of it will be fbund in
feme of the late papers, down to the 16th.
On the Sunday preceding, he had. sent for
General Haddick,-.whom he defiied to return
his since. e thauks to all the officers and pri
vates in his army; for the-zealous and faithful
difeharge of their duties, and hoping that af
ter his death, thcv*>‘WouW prelerve the Tame
charader for bravery and fidelity.* . Frcm that
day till the next, he grew very reftfefaf when
extreme unflion was ariminiffered to h'm.
On this, occaCon, after confeffing, lie gave
to hrs confeflbr, John Perer, L-brarhn, and
of the order of Auguffines, a pension for life,
of 500 florins per annum, with 300 more,
to commence immediately .oa his deccafe,
( he florin at 2S; 4d. iflerling). >.
On the 17th the Arch-Dutchefs Elizabeth,
eon fort to the Gtand Duke’s foil, was taken
in labour, when all rhe bells in Vienna were
oideied io roll, byway of Application for
her fafe delivery, but on the 19th the Pr:n
cefs died, after being brought to bed of a
Prince, . The news of her decease so greatly
affeded the Emperor, that he expired himfelf
the next- day.
; Besides other letters which have brought
this account, . the Secretary of Sir R. M-
Keith arrived with the intelligence yesterday
morning, on which ;a Cabinet Council was
immediately held, and two messengers were
ordered to hold themselves. in readinefg to set
off, at a moment’s warning, to the Continent.
What effed-the Emperor’s death will have
on the general peace of Europe, depends. 1
more upqn /Piuffia than perhaps any other .
power. If her meafu es are hoflile, Eng
land and Holland will certainly be drawn in.
At all event* it seems to .bode well to the
Turks, who by this ci-rcumffance will pro
bably be enabled .to make peace with the
Court of Vienna, and thus have one of two
very formidable foes taken off her hands.
The Sardinian dominions.aie expericncinji;
some portion of the political shock which the «
French revolution propagated so widely in
Europe.—The improvident, and. wafteful ex
pendnure of the-,Court, Jbad Compelled his
•Sardinian Majesty, after.x peace of 45 years !
to impose new taxes on his people.—Thefc
impofuions, which irritated the people.in ge
neral, provoked an infurreffion in the country
of AoR, with the privileges of whose inha
bitants peculiat ly . classed. Six thoufandl
Mountaiueeis arc said to be up in arms in
that territory.
The county of Nice is also asserting ita
privileges, and the whole Continental domi
nions of the House of Savoy are in a slate ot
fermentation and inquietude;
The Congress at jaffy jg confirmed to be
broken up.
Brabant continues to exhibt those feenes of
civil dillention, which the coliifion 01 the
privileges of the Rates, with the right of the
people, has kindled. The whole House of
Areinberg have, embraced the democratic*!
fide; but so powerful is ptieffiy influence,
that 400 000 fignaturss have b*en procured
to the Declaration in favor of the Srates.
We are lorry to hear that some difluibailees
have brokeu out in the Electorate of Hanover,
the particulars of'which have not yet trans-.
pi red.
17., Oh Monday morning some difp*»eFt*r
were received ae the lm;>ert<l MmiUer’s from
Germany. The fuceelTor to the late Joseph Ir.
arrived in that city the fd. inflant, and, after
remaining there a few daM, is expected to set
off for Buda, where preparations ere carry .u#
00 teerownhim King of Hungary,
The Bclgick di.aies hive decidedly ref ifeit
to lifttn lu the pFupufl:ious of Uif ,ie»v King
of Hunftiy,
