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SAT aHD AY, March 2, 1793.] THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND GAZETTE of the STATE. - - - ...... 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 VOL. VII. Ho. 334. J