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SATURDAY, February 23, 1793-1
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE,
AND
GAZETTE of the STATE.
FREEDOM of tht PRESS and TRIAL by JURY (hall remain inviolate Conflitution of Georgia*
A U GUST A: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State; Essays , Articles of
Intelligence , Advertisements , &c. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed.
GEORGIA , 7 Superior Court ,
Franklin county. S Jan. term, *793-
Jfhe charge of the Honorable IVilham
Stithy Judge, to the Grand Jury.
Qmtlemtn of tbt Grand Jury ,
THE ordinary duties you are now called
on to cxecute t have been so frequently
reiterated, and are so clearly delineated by
the oath you have taken, that little is to be
laid on that fubjeft. A drill enquiry into
whatever violations of the laws have taken
place in your county, of any kind whatever,
and which by any means may come to your
knowledge, will fill up the measure of your
duty in that regard. Your vicinity to the fe
deral tribes offouthern Indians, and the fre
quent outrages that have been mutually com
mitted by those Indians and the inhabitants of
this date on each other, will present to your
view, objcAs fufficiently important to arrcft
the mod attentive consideration of every ci
tizen, not only of this date, but of the whole
United States.
* The frontier tituation of Georgia, as ihe
Hands in relation to the union, induced her as
early as pofllble to accede to the Federal Con
futation, the rcadjnefs with which we made
that adoption, and our infantile date, gave us
(as we thought) a well-grounded hope that
the potent arm of an efficient government
would in all times of danger be ehearfully in
cited in defending us againd the lavage cuemy,
whose frequent and unprovoked attacks, have
deluged the date with the blood of ite inno
cent and defcncelcfs inhabitants, since the
adoption of the Federal Government, and the
treaties made under its authority, we have
seen its dignity insulted and treaties violated
on the part of the Indians, with impunity.
We have experienced a continued ieries of the
mod inhuman butcheries and robberies com
muted on our frontiers by those savage tribes,
and as yet we have not been cheared with
scarce a Angle ray of Federal protections.
Whether this inattention is the result of a
fettled negleft of our intered in the Federal
Government, or whether the conduit of our
fellow citizens have been so far mifreprerented
as to induce a belief in the Federal Govern
ment, that they have been the aggressors, are
quedions of the utmod importance; the latter
of which it is your unbounded duty to inve
stigate 5 it is of moment to the peace and
fafety of the date, that offenders agaiad the
laws should be presented to the courts, to re
ceive that measure of punifhraeut which has
been determined as a just reward of their
crimes; and offences against znj Indians in
amity with us is made a high crime by the
laws of this date, a true aud faithful repre
sentation (of fads) relative to the differences
between the frontier inhabitants and the In
dians being made, the world will determine
on which ddc judice ought to preponderate.
Therefore let the truth of fads be known,
bow much, and how long your citizens b'ave
fuffered, and if they have been their avengers,
whether they arc judified therein by that great
and firft principle of nature, felf dtftnct.
W. STITH, junior.
Presentments of the Grand Jury .
WE present as a grievance that the fron
tiers of this county are not protected with
feme guard, for the fafety of the inhabitants,
for want of which many of our fellow citizens
GEORG Ist.
have been obliged to take refuge in the ftatfi
of South-Carolina.
We prefect William Wofford, for trading
with the Indians, without licence for that
purpose, on information of Peter Williamson,
Efquiic.
We return our thanki to his Honor the
Judge, for hi a charge delivered at this term,
end for hia drift attending to the buiinefi of the
county, and recommend that the charge to
gether with these our presentments be pub
liihed is the State Gazette.
In conformity to the request of the Grand
Jury, *
Ordered, That their preferments* together
with the charge de livered them, betranfmit
ted to the Printer of the Public Gazette, to be
inserted in his paper.
Examined , W. STITH, junior •
ExtraS from the Minutes t
JOHN SMITH, Clk .
LONDON, OSober t 6.
[ Lately died at Clover-hill, Skibbereen,
! in Ireland, a woman, at the extraordi nary age
of 140. She poifeffcd her intellcftual faciH
k ties to the last.
All accounts from Scotland represent that
part of the kingdom aa in a very flauriihiag
fituatiou. All the mauufafturing towns in
particular are on the increase; every hand that
can work it employed on good wages; and the
exports from Clyde this year to Amctica are
double any former year.
17. The French Agenta at Coblentz, wishing
to excitejan infurreftion in the town, and call
Gen. Cuftine thither, the Commandant of the
citadel threatened the inhabitants to burn their
town if they did not immediately give up the
chiefs of the revoltera. They gave them up,
and he hung them publicly on the walla of the
citadel.
Almost all of the ecclesiastical Princes in
Germany have flown from their territories,
and fought (belter in Swifferland.
The Sovereign Pontiff has publicly announ
ced from the Papal Chair the possibility of the
French soon coning to Rome to pillage the
churches, carry off the sacred vases, and re
new in that city the depredations whico the
Barbarians committed there in the sth centu
ry under the command of Attilla. Ibe Pope
obfervts that his age nor hit charaftcr do uot
admit of hi* putting bimt<*f at the head of
troops to repulse the eueray ; that the avowed
intentions of the French to extinguish the sa
cerdotal race prevented him from going in his
pontifical robes, in imitation of St.. Leon, to
meet the definitive scourge which threatens
the city, that people might fee the steps they
bad to take. Ua this declaration being made
Prince Borghefe and other diftioguiihed p»»-
sons protested that they would defend their
country to the lafi drop of their blood. The
people cried out loudly their intentions to do
the fame, and measures are already taking for
defence.
They write from Edinburgh that a young
surgeon there has lately inoculated the mea
sles, and that several experiments have been
fuccefsfui, the result being the communication
of the disease, free from all alarming fyrnp
toms.
Belfast November aS. We learn fron*
Cork that there have been tumultuous rifing*
in that city on account of the high price ofl
proviffona.
ExtraQ of a letter from Drogheda dated tbit
morning •
I have just seen a gentleman who cams
over in the Down(hire, which arrived last
. night at ten o’clock. He fays the people
throughout Scotland are in an uproar, parti**
cularly at Edinburgh, where the eaftlc has been
taken possession of by the people, without re*
fiftauce on the part of thf garrison ; and that
detachments of the army, quartered in dif
ferent parts of the kingdom, had been ordered
to march towards Edinburgh. A fraall par
ty which lay at Stranrawer had marched off®
•very reluSantle% on Bunday last. He fays the
King’s effigy had been infultiogly hung up in
several places, and the ueiverfal cry everr
where was, A REPUBLIC, NO KING 1 The
soldiers (hewed no difpofitioa to fight agaiuffc
liberty, faying they wanted it therafelves®
and thought they would be very ungrateful to
injure those who supported them. ”
* We give the above intelligence aa we re
ceived it, without vouching for its authentici
ty. It it to be recollefted that, from fomo
late publications of different bodies there, tbo
Scotch feera to be not behind with theic
neighbors in the purfui: of freedom ; but wo
Ihould be sorry to find that they would thuo
prema urelyrufh into violent mtafutts, with
out making application to the LegilUturc for
redress.
PHILADELPHIA, January 13.
The British porte ate opened for the admis
sion of grain, and will continue open till May
next.
Knoxville , (South of the Ohio) December xg.
On Tuefday last the Hanging Maw, and it
other Cherokees, arrived here, under an escort
from the frontier, with peace talks from Joha
Watts, which has afforded great pleasure t®
all deferiptions of plople.but rauft be particu
larly pleafiag to the unhappy frontier inha
bitants.
On Saturday the ltd instant a party of Indi
ans went to the boufe of Mr. Richardson, ia
Jeffsrfon county, on Little Pigeon, *5 miles
from this place, and killed Mrs. Richardson,
Mrs. Foster, Miss Schull, and two childern®
with tomahawks and a war club, the latter of
which they left ia the house, robHfctl the houfe®
and went off. It appears that they had lain ia
wait upon a hill which overlooked Ricbard
foa’s door many hours, and took the oppor
tunity of his absence of only half an hour to
mifficre his family.
On the nsxt day, Bunds y, John Barkim, ia
the fame neighborhood, in fearcb of bis hot—
fes, saw two Indians attempting to catch them;
on which he fired upon one, who dropped hia
arms, but it is feared he did not kill him.
Capt. Henly, who was supposed to be kil
led at the time hia party wai attacked ani
defeated on the Cumberland path, is now a
prisoner at Wilt’s Town, in the Cherokee Na
tion.
Martin/burg, January 7. We learn that all
hopes of accompiifiiing a peace with the Wefi
ern Indians i* given up, the only term* or,
which they will treat being, that the tiveir
Ohio (hall be the boundary line ; therefore,
as it would include all the New England an 1
Symra’s purchases, as well a* the lauds grou
ted to the officers of the Virginia line ia
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