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SAT aHD AY, March 2, 1793.]
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
AND
GAZETTE of the STATE.
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FREEDOM of the PRESS and TRIAL b j JURY lhall remain inviolate Couftitution of Georgia.
A XJ GUST A: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State; Efays , Articles of
Intelligence , Advertifoments , &c. will be gratefully received, ana every kind of Printing performed.
T
GEORGIA.
By hit Excellency EDWARD TELFAIR,
Governor and Commander in Chief in and
over the said State.
Proclamation.
WHEREAS delays have arisen
in several counties and diftrifts in
transmitting the sense or nomination (byper
font liable to d« militia duty) of company
officers, whereby the arrangement of the
militia i> greatly impeded: And •whereat
it bccomet indifpenfible that a full organiza
tion of the militia throughout the date be at
complirtied with as much expediton as the
nature of the case will by any means admit—
I HAVE THEREFORE though* fit to is
sue this my Proclamation, hereby ftri&ly en
joining and requiring all officers whom it may
concern to transmit the several returns as
aforefaid on or before the fit ft Monday in
April next, as immediately thereafter the
company arrangements will be completed.
GIVEN under my Hand, and the Great
' Seal of the said State, at the State House
* at Augusta, this twenty-eigb»h day of
February in the year of eur Lord one
thousand ieven hundred and ninety-tbrtc,
and in the 17th year of the Indepen
dence of the United States of America.
EDWARD TELFAIR.
By bis Excellency's Command ,
JOHN MILTON , Scc'ry.
T 9 hit Honor Judge S—— //
YOUR ears have been so long unacru
ftomed to hear truth, that it will found
but harshly to them * However, it is worth
hearkening to: And, though it comes from
an unknown voice, let your Honor listen.
“ There is a refpeft due to misfortune,
which a generous man will always pay. The
low rogue in the pillory demands it from the
mob, and i: is very seldom refufed : Far be
it from me, therefore to withold it from the
great rogue at the helm. Well do I know the
brittle fluff your ebarafter is made of; it is
too Jo/ 1 to be handled roughly and like your
own promises, would vaniffi into vapour and
air.
** Why (hould I tell your Honor what every
clerk in every office in town repeats, that yuu
are a boy in politics—Alas ! That folly has
neither eyes nor cars; in an evil hour like
Phaeton you assumed the reins; and, like him,
in an evil hour must let them go,—what have
we to do with politics ? Before the conflagra
tion begins, RETIRE, —Were an angel
to t ke pity on your woes, he would defeeud
and give you the lame advice.
“ Aie you incredulous? Look round you,
and fee where you are; Who are your
friends ? Y o - friends did I fay the Leg — t —/,
and a black in of knaves Can they be
friends— Ak.! you bluih for them ; and if
they cou) f, would blufti for you. —Take my
advice m» friend. RETIRE.
“ Take a more extended view. Think
on the Rate to which you may reduce this
Wretched country.
Every place, every person in confufion—
•ur Uwt trampled upon—our trade wounded
GEORGIA.
—and our public credit rendered precarious
under your admtniftration; our bcggara
will become more beggarly—and our knaves
more knavilh—Does this dreadtu! picture af
fraight you ?—Are you a man to cope with the
fury of an enraged people ?—Think of this,
tremble, and RETIRE.
“ Are you dill incredulous ?—I am not
surprised. As you are ignorant, you have a
right to be confident. Lifien once more
then—Look into hifiory, for the fate of
traitors in pall ages, it will inform you, to
your confufion, how easy the step is from the
throne of justice to the fcalfold of infamy
Shame ! Shame ! My Lord, quit your Robe,
and RETIRE.
*€s“ c © B •©» «©>»«©» <©o «<JS»
LONDON, No vember 20.
On Tuefday last, *the Rev. Mr. Taaffe, a
Dissenting Clergyman, in Dublin, was appre
hended and committed to the New Prison
■ there, an a charge of having publilhcd and
circulated inflammatory hand-bills, particu
larly among the military, with a view to cre
ate an infur region. * the Governor of Ire
land has set a very excellent example in this
particular, we trust our magistrates will pur
ine the fame line of conduftia London.
The trial of Mr. Thomas Paine is expelled
with more than usual eagerness by the public :
nothing can be more intrrefting toEaglifhmen
than to know whether opinion is free, or not,
upon general fubjerts of politics, for such is
prccifely the quettion to be tried.
Every poffnle attempt has been made to
seduce Mr. Erlkine from Handing forth
Mr. Paioe’s clieut. Thus, are there found
in the kingdom men bale enough to at
tempt debauching the honor and intcrcfl of
the Britiih bar. It is almost needless to
fay, that every endeavour of thij kind had
no effeft upon Mr. Erlkine. The light will
be odd enough—a diftinguiihtd member of
the French National Convention to be tried
at the Eoglilh bar, for affertiag the Rights
of Man !
Several accounts meution the failing of the
French fleet from Toulon. The attack of
Civita Vecchia and Rome seems decided on.
The men of Marseilles are also projecting aa
expedition to Loretto, a city on the eaflern
fide of Italy, where is the deposit of riches in
the Holy House formerly brought from
Bethlehem on angels* backs. The holy cbeft
will probably furnilh the French with the
greatest quantity of rich pluoder, of any place
in the world. It is fomewbat wonderful,* that
in the many wart of Europe, none of the pri
vateers of any nation have ever attempted to
pillage it. as the reign of fupei flition is now
on the decline, it will hardly be so fafe in
future.
N E W-Y O R K, February 6.
By Capt. Duplex, who arrived hereyefler
day in 54 days from Cork, we learn, that all
is bustle aud confufion in England ; that the
day before he failed information was received
at Cork that 47 vcfiels had been ordered by
the Britiih Miniflry into fervire apainft
France; that the Squirrel, a King’s cutter on
the Irilh flaticn, was seen coming into Cork
harbor, for the purpofe,it was said, of pres
sing men for the fleet. From the com
plexion of the above information the affairs
of France wear a very serious efpeft.
Feb. 7. Private letters received by the Ana
and bufan, con'ain the following particulars s
“ That Louis XVI. has been tried, was ac
quitted and is at large; that several battles
had taken place, which invariably declated iu
favor of liberty and equality; that Antwerp,
that capital Auflrian city, situated on the
river Scheldt, waa in the possession of Du
mourier and hia army ; that the Britiih fleet
waa eputpping with expedition, and that the
Dutch were alarmed, and it waa believed
would arm.
PHILADELPHIA, February U
The Legilhtuie of the Hate of Kentuc
ky have passed an ad, giving further time
to proprietors of lauds, within their jurif
didion, for surveying the fame, and foe
returning platts and certificates to the r«-
gillei’a office. The time allowed for the
purpose of lumping, is to the firlt of Ja
nuary 1794 —and the term of one year, from
the eighth of August next, for returning platte
aad certificates into the regifler’s office. It
may be proper to mention, also, for public
information, that all lands io the Hate of Ken
tucky are liable to pay an annual date tax of.—
sixteen pence, Virginia currency, per hundred
acres, the firft payment to be made *he fourth
day of February, instant: on failure of entering;
the lands by the fourth of February 1795, with
the cemmiflioners of the county, and pay
ing up all arrears of taxes, with interell at
five per cent, to that day, such lands are
to be forfeited to the Hate. This law e
qually affe&a residents and non-residents nor;
is there any other duty required of the pros
prictors.
According to letters from Europe, ««tfio
French National Convention have ordered tie
printed trial of Charles the I of England, to
betranflated and poblifhed for the use of ffie
members ; and that it is conjertured by maqy,
the king aud queen will make the fame end
that be did. M- de la Fayerte continues in
prison. Some juftify him on the principle of
his having gone as far with the people as, in
honour, he ought to have done ; or at least,
as he thought he could do, confident with bis
oath to the new constitution, Perhaps he
ought to have gone further, and fluck to
his party, and thus h?ve restrained many of
the enormities that were committed. It is
certainly a wrong part to take, which renders
a man obnoxious to both fide*. **
Extrail of a letter from a gtn'leman in
Virginia , to his friend in this city, dated
January ll th.
“The affairs cf France give joy to every
true republican. The people hsre disapprove
very generally the tax proposed fin horses, nor
will the people who have carriages fubmitto
a t?x cn them, unlsfa one on sleighs equally
high fiiould accompany it, as they are certainly
made use of as much, or more, for pleafurs
than carriages are here. 9
The Buffaloe beef la f ely k lied in (his city,
fold in (he market at it. fid. per lb. The
exart reffcrablance of the creature, in a pre
served date, is now to be seen at Mr. Pealtt
mufeurn.
We hear from the Wefl-Indies, tbat the ilhnds
Guadaloupe and Martinique are in great con
fufion; the ariflocrat c inhabitants being bu
sily employed in packing up and quitting thole
islands, under an apprehension of a French
fleet arriving fpccuiiy to puniih them for tksifi
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