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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 VOL. VII. Ho.