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tie other • monopolizer of land. Whether
•hat t» in or not, ii no htiftnefa of mine. I
ttill' otfTy make a few ‘remark’*' oh each of
•hem, without attempting to unravel the mo
tines-which prompted either «r communicate
his ideas to the ptfblic.
Philanthropes seems to tie s*vi6lei.r ensmv
to the excise law, lately parted by Ongreft s
In which he is countenanced by th it refpeftahle
body, the Federal Grand jury for the diftnft
nt Georgia. The Planter, if I mistake him
not, is a friend to excite in general; but
Whether to the particular a t\ above alluded to,
does not so clearly appears Yet, whatever
may be the uprightnels of bis heart, cynics
•nd critics will conjecture, that he who re
commends to one man, or set of men, to do
a bad efti'ori, will‘naturally countenance the
fkruc aftion in another But if the Planter's
lentiroents are as I conjecture, he is counte
nanced'by‘that juptrlmtiVtly refpeftahle body,
the Congress ot the Uuited State*, with the
illustrious Wafliington at their bead. - Fear
ful odds in tavor of cxcife.
I will admit for a moment (what Common
Etofe will never allow) that Congress were
jultiriable in parting such an excise law as they
liXve ; 7€t, that isnot a- fuflfcient reason why
©ur AdciAblr ihoold be so cOmplai&nt to the
precedetir, as to improve it into ad aft of the
tftate Legislature, which, in its* tendency,
ihill include the most odious part of the ex
cite m Great-Britain ; as also the mote odibus
Barop act; the fir ft fourcc of difeord between'
Guai-Britain and her colonies.
Charit ahly'hoping the Planter it only aftu
arted by the* laudable motives of wiftjiug to
Populate oor‘court try, amT thereby increase
•h* coulequcnce of the fou.hern flaths, I will
humbly recommend to his confir eration, an
expedient that may probably answer those tie
flrable purpotes, without the neteflity of* an
cxctle ot <iamp,aft. Let those gentlemen who
Ebid more lan . than they can pay a reasonable
fax on, if they cannot find purchasers for it,
adveuife iu this and the neighbouring states,
that they will give Jeafcs'on it for ten, twen
ty ut thirty yeata j the tedanf only paying this
till
nefore I conclude, I cannot help m iking a
few remarks on his Escelleiicy’s Speech to
Both Houles of Congress.
He lpeaks feelingly of the meafqres taken
•nd taking, for the defence and security of the
weftetn frontiers; but not a word of the sub-
Ihern. It is to be hoped this will not escape
the atteution ot the guardians of our rights
and hbcities. * j -
I fear the tenderness and philahthrepy*to-
Warcis the Indians, exprefTed iu that part of
hi£ Excellency s Speech which indicates the
expedieucy oi a new mode of alienating their
lands, bode* uo ’gdod to Georgia. It is, per
haps, another ftrp towards alienating all state
fiKius, and reducing the feVeral states to pet
ty corporations ; depending, for eheircorpq
ra iou powers, outhe fovercigu will and plei
fute of . r
ATTIfcIJS.
VIENNA, August 14.
LAST night a courier arrived at the houfh
of‘ Prince Gill.tzin, the Ruffian ambaf
f»rit>r, from Prince Repnin, with news, that
on the 11.b-juft, the preliminary articles of
between Russia and the Fdrte were
hgned at Galatz by him and the Grand Viiier.
And that in order to have time for adjust
ing a definitive treaty, and appointing con
mirtrunets for that purpose, they had agreed
upon an armiliice for eight mouths.
Thetouut d’Artois, brother to the King
of France, arrived here four days ago, with
*o pet lons in his suite ; he-went to Court,
sod was received by the whole Imperial fami
ly. He wcut away yesterday.
LONDON, Siftmber B.*
Aggrandtjtmtnt of the Houjt of
We took nonce at the time cf the residence
of 'he Baron de Hardeuberg, Mioifler of Fi
nances to the Margrave of Rrtndtobourg,
Anfpsch, sud Bareith, at the Prufluu Court,
•od of bis bemg nominated Miniftsr of State
«o bis Pruflian Msjsfty, The motive j« now
made public, so ; the Gazette of that Court
fjpsaks of it in the following terms»
“ Friur#, reigning happily overs bear,
tifulaud Uinta soumry luluut.sJ by apoinlisd
people, and enjoying the Weftioge cf pe%ce,
i h.suken the r«f>l«tion at the Jge df p6;»tclfe
fire r froin nis iiTuftrious* poll, and to live in
foreign countries upon an income drawn from
‘'■the revenue of his hereditary effaces. -Lady
Craven, (H well known for her travels and
•literary productions, accompanies the Mar*
grave on his tour, having already patted the
lalt winter with him at- Berlin.** The Mar
grave has published the* ordinance, by which
he renounces the administration of the Mar
gravate. It is dated Oftend, the ptb of June,
and has the following pottage :
“As many important motives, particu-’
larly rsrSfons of health, oblige him to an ab
sence of' long duration, and perhaps at a great
distance from his eflatet, he conlider6 all the
* cares of if, and all his affairs, as well those
- which concern the government of bis country,
as well as those which regard his own person,
' without' exception, to 'of Har
denberg, and accords him full power to that
" effert.” /
With regard to the rest, he has also given
full power “ to his Pruftian Majesty, to give
the neceiTary inftrucrions to the said Minister;
and in wtightjr cases, which interest his coun
try and his fubjefts, to fend him all the or
ders shat his Majesty (hall judge convenient >r
In virtue of 'this ordinance/ thefts two Mar
gravates arc from the* present moment, at
tached to the Pruftian nidnlrchy, or tather in
corporated with the 1 mass of 'the 'hereditary
ellateS of the houfc? of Bratidenbourg; *and
theI*entire 1 *entire authority of the government irin
the hands of'M? de Hardenberg, who has the
un , imhtd ? disposal of the civil, nulitaryand
ecclefiaffical employments, under a tefponfi
bifitr to the Courf of Berlin, with an ap
pointment of thirty thonfand ftdrtns.
15.- Last nighrj at ten o’clock, a fire broke
out near Cherry Garden Stairs, Rotherliithe,
which, ftom the tide'being low 4 , artd little
water to be had,' bbrued furioufly for a con*
ftrlcrable time, by which above so houses,
nfacy of them warehouses, containing pro
~ perty to a great amount* were burnt down ;
and having communicated to the Ihippmg, the
Ranger from the South Secs, and a fmail brig,
weie burnt. A great number of families
.were burnt oat, and their little all destroyed.
The King of Pruftia ban concluded a com
mercial treaty Pruftia and the United
Srites t.f America/and M Palefke, a refpec
tatde merchant in Philadelphia, is appointed
his Majcfty's Consul General. It is said that
he >s tupropofc a treaty <t>f alliance between the
two countries, so that the Pruftian manufac
tures may be imported into Amcricaniodef
gieat advantages. *
The important interview between tto ETn
peror and the King of Piuflia is ..ver. The
object of it is ft ill a secret. Exchanges of
territory, and the affairs of Poland and France,
are talked cf, but only on conjecture. The
peopjr of the- Austrian Netherlands are
alarmed, left they Ihould be bartered or fold
The French are at length convinced that all
measures with refpett to them will be merely
of a defenlive nature. Almdft ail the Paris
papers/ lately so full of* apprehension and
alarm, now speak cf an external attack on-thk
new couftitution as a thing utterly imuro- *
babfe.
T The elections*-for the/new Legifbturt of
France go on with great rapidity, and every
where with the utmost profound tranquility.
In Pans, tho/ speak lightly of any attempts
jwhicta may be made by ’the Kings of. Spam
and Saidinia against their liberties: They
have no doubt about the wtThes of>thefe bvo
narebs; but they know that the Catalonians,
the Piedmontefe, and Savoyards, only wait
for a favorable moment to foliowthe example
which the French have set them/ As to the
Emperor, they begin now to think that he
must be periuaded by this time, that the only
way to make his finer happy, must be by get.
ting the new couftitutiuu fiuaUy fettled with
ail dispatch nsetttary.
On Friday i4*prifoaers wete trieif at thr
Old Bailey, three of whom were capitally con.
vitted. SufamialrHm was put to the 6*r; upon
the charge of wilful murder, upon thr body
of Francis Kotiwatfa*, (mentioned* in our
lift) by having hung him upou the ftaplt of
• doorfor five minutes, at his owu dr/irc. in
her apartments, whertof fie diad. Two evi.
dtoces ware aasiumsd, one ol whom was »
cleik st ilia publlc«offtr§| Bnwiftrcet, where
Ilia wai eftammad j the otharpiked exafliy
oppcfiie to the prisoner, who, on the day of
the decc&fe cf Mr. Kotzwaita called out to
' her i and appealing in a ve»y great fright,
went over, when the prilcner fai* 4 , “ I have
. hanged a n an, and lam atraid he ia dead ”
, Here the court rhterfered, aud the council h»v
i.ing no ether proof of the fart, admitted he
th -uld net be able to make out his case ; upon
which the jury were direrted to her,
and they accordingly returned a veidtrt, not
guilty.
, '* BOS TO !*, oa*,,
:* The committee for the sale of eastern lands,
whose affidtmy and attentiou entitle them to
public thanks, have lately located one million
aetea of the land some time since purchased bv
- Jackson and Fliot, on the Kennebec*
** nver f cv etal German emigrants have lately
patted through this town, to fettle on the ahove
;*■ land, ‘ Mor « on the road, be&et numhede
from Ireland, who prefer ar fetrkemeht on an
excellent fca-coaft, id* fafe^,'to the hazard
and inconveniences which have been experi
enced by thofc who havr fettled in the weft
•rn territory.
_* b 9
\ n;ew"bernTwc.)dii. '
This town was on Wedoefday last, visited
bfan unhappy conflagration, which has de
ft royed its mott ftouriihihg part. The firrf'*
broke out, at noon, in the fioufe of Pbilirf’
Roche a tavern keeper, on \ht county wharf. 4
The loft of that house being filled with fodder
the ft =.mds ftiddehly mad* their appearance
through its roof, and almost ioftantly reached'
the contiguous houses— the wind blew from
the north east:. The* (Tire. ofMeffa.Ken
nedy, Gerock and Lawrence, were almost atf
once in a blaze’, and had they been blolvn up.
all further damage would have beeh ’pre
vented. *
Court retched acrof. CraVW anj
FF.ut.rfrr Mt ,, tht oM ccffet w Mr-
Danoella, and Mr rotnlinfun’s (lores. Nintf
home, on theeaft fide of Craven street, and
seven on the water fide of Front ftreet,' were
reduced .oaths., The nonh weft corner of
Graven and Front streets, commonly called 1
Pfiden s corner, was next attached, and ev’err - '
houfe, in both direction., wf. burnt down, at
co ™* r °! M ' (J, ' lle ftr «< on one fide,'
and Mfefirs. Manning and Bti'm's store on the
other. The two lad build,fig. wer , blo .
**?•
Sixty-three houses were destroyed, as well 4
as an immense quantify of goods.
;• fWained on this occafioh amounts to upwards
of 100.0001.
Philip Roche and his wife were, last even
ing, committed to goal; nnoy refpertabltf’
inhabitants Invimrevlirced their apprehtnfioiii'
that these people whose hotlfe it is supposed
was inteutio ially let on fire) would again at- >
tempt to burn the to wn.
AUGUST A, December 7%
‘ The General Aflembly have puffed an Art-
Topunith persons convirted of dealing horses '
' afles or mules, with death.. *
*> ° n Monday the z&th uh. departed this life
the Hon. Alexander Biffett, Esq. ol« of tb*?
Senators- of this ftatc, from the 'county of
Glvnn. In confluence of his having been a
member of the Society of Ancient York Ma
fone, the Members of Lodge Columbia con
• V€ned at their Lodge Room about 3 o’clock in
the afternoon of the' following day; and a
committee being appointed to wait on the
Right Worthipful Past Grand Masters Steven*
and Jackson, the President of the Senate, and
c such of the Members of the Senate aud House
of Representatives as belonged to tb* Ancientr
;Ct aft, to request theif attendance, they were
.accordingly introduced. About four o’clock
they marched in procefiioaal order to fheCof
fee-houfe. where the deceased bad refided>
From thence his remaioe were borne to 6t.
Paul’s Church-yard, and deposited with the
honors of Masonry {—after which a fuiiable
difeourfe was delivered by the Rev. Brother
( —Mr. Bifleet was a native of Scotland*
and ha 4 been a citizen of this (fate for a uum
bar of years y in the course of which he at*
quirtd the character of an upright and aa ho«
nest imp,
tHED.] O, Friday, tb, fifth wit. Ms,
A»bu Clay, of ih.« place*
1 hf trial i f Jndg* Oiboioe, charged with
high crimee and mifacumngre sgiiatt the