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Art. 6. What has been decreed by these presents
(hall be addressed to the states general, defiling
them to fend it to the refpe&ive states of the United
Provinces, in order to be printed in both languages,
and to be sent to, and polled up, without delay,
in all the towns, communes and ports of the United
Provinces.
MUNSTER, February 7.
For this lall fortnight past we have been here in
thq greatest consternation. The head-quarters of
count Walmoden were last Wednesday transferred
to this place. The day before yesterday the Atf
flriansieft Doelburg, of which the French advanc
ed posts took immediate poffeflion. The French
pulhed as far as Anhalt, 19 leagues from this town.
The Austrians still occupy the banks of the Lippe,
but it is uncertain whether, on account of the
scarcity of provisions, they will be able long to
maintain themselves in that pofttion.
We received this moment certain information,
that the French have repealed all the requisitions
direfted to the inhabitants on the other fide ot the
Rhine. But, on the contrary, a contribution of
9 millions has been imposed on the deflorate of
Cologne, another of 15 millions on Limburg and
Juliers, and one of two millions on Aix-la-
Chapelle.
The principal field of aflion in the next campaign
is likely to lie in Westphalia, where, we undcr
ftand, the army of field rnarlhal Mocllendoiff is to
join the Britilh and German army, whereby the
combined army is to be increased to the number of
120,000 men.
CHARLESTON, May 2.
Yesterday arrived, the French armed schooner
la Mere Michelle, capt. Laillie, from a cruise of
34 days, with a prize (hip of 6 guns, called the
Phoebe, capt. David Andrews late matter, from
Montego Bay, of and bound to Liverpool, with a
valuable cargo of rum, sugar, coffee, cotton,
pimento, and logwood; (he was captured on the
19th ult. when, after a (hort engagemert,
Laillie boarded the ship, and during the contest the
firft and second mates of the (hip, and two of the
men, were killed, and almost all the men wounded.
A U GU S T A, May 16.
From Philadelphia Papers of April 16- —lB.
By the late accounts from England, it appears
that a considerable number of new and old East-
India (hips are taken into service as vessels of war
—ithis will confequcntly diminilh the number of
vessels employed in the carrying trade—and here
again the wisdom of our government appears in
braving the attacks of faction, by adopting and
persevering in the fyllem of neutrality—Happy is
that' country where the people fee 1, acknowledge
and support the measures adopted by their patrio
tic public functionaries.
Is it not political blasphemy to abuse the admi
nistration of a country whose measures equally
edmmand the opprobation of those who are hostile
to each other ?
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the war
system is wrong; 'nine hundred and ninety-nine
times out of a thousand, the pacific, neuirai system
is RIGHT.
The present situation of affairs in Europe and
the Weft-Indies, and the great reason to expert
their continuing in that situation, present an ai
moft boundless profpeft to the Farmers of the
United States. It is hardly possible to conceive
that they will be able to raifea surplus beyond the
probable demand for grain and provisions of every
defeription suitable for exportation. The culture
of Indian corn, polatoes, &c. may be extended to
the greatest limits. All the ports of Europe will
be opened to receive our supplies- -they cannot
subsist without them-—And under the auspices of a
firm and steady government, with those exceptions
always experienced in similar circumstances, our:
neutrality will enable us to carry to the belt ad
vantage, the exuberant produ&ions of our fail,
lit addition to the impulse excited by so fair a
pfofpeft of gain, the voice of humanity calls loud
ly upon us to make the greatest exertions to dimi
nish the horrors of war, and its concomitants,
want and daft refs.
Extract of a letter received per Capt , Green , from a
gentleman in St* Eujtatia, dated \ft April.
“ The English have declared war againil the
Dutch, and have granted letters of marque and re
prisals; one has already produced her cotnmiffum
at St. Kitts’. The Dutch have acknowledged the
foveieignty of the French, granted one and a half
million sterling to prosecute the war, ta supply
large quantities of doathing for the army, and to
fit out thirty-two fail of the line, and nine f rigat s.
“ The negroshave n taken St. Lucia exce, t tiie
fort of .Morne Fortune, taken Grenada, except
Richmond Hill and Town, have rose in a body at
* *
St. Vincents, and are fighting there in a dreadful
manner; and in neither of the English or Dutch
islands do the inhabitants go to bed without the
fear of death before morning. Such is the present
situation of these colonies, and you mull be persua
ded the profpeft is not very tempting to rifie pro
perty at present. All those who had goods here
last week removed to St. Thomas and St. Bartholo- 1
mew’s, fearing the attack of the French, and this
week we are expelling the attack of the English.
Yesterday an English frigate was here, and it
was supposed she came to demand the illand.'’
WHEN ONE of the people multiplies himfelf
into WE the peopi.e, the imagination
is amused with a monfler which beggars every poe
tical definition of the many-headed Hydra of the
ancient fabuliils; and wbiift wc are convinced that
its cxiftence is not less apocryphal, we are led to ac
count for the appearance of this incongruous phan
tom, on the foie principles of mortified disappoint
ment and faflious zealimproving on a difeon
tent differninated from the fame fouiccs, the mea
sure of disposing of part of the weftern territory of
this (late, is made a malk to conceal other partial
and interested intentions, as well as to place ano
ther set of men in the situation of the present pur
chasers, (which, by the way, is not considered as
a very enviable one, unlcfs by those who conceive
they have loft immense fortunes by their exclu
i fion!)—Were a refutation of the doctrines bundled
up in this faggot, as well as in the ccmbufible re
monstrance to which it is an appendanr, now ne
cessary, one need only recapitulate the arguments
i of the Candidi, the Planters and others who have
reasoned on the fubjeft; but I cannot help remark
ing what a foolifh fatality still induces so particu
lar a stress on the supposed largcft offer, whilst the
very gill of all these inflammatory publications and
proceedings is to condemn ab ovo the exercise of
*he powers of sale as usurped and not delegated, as
i if the name of that insurgent Albert Gallatin , (to
which doubtless would have been annexed his as
sociates), could (lamp a viitue upon that which is
branded as the germ of corruption, interest and
intrigue, and make that legal and constitutional
which is now said to be otherwise. Much pains
have been taken to puff the wind-bills into credit,
but no one fays a word about the period of pay
ment, no one pretends to deny the advantages that
( would have accrued from the extension of time,
and that from the different denominations of mo
ney, or papers denominated money, this offer
boasted of as so much superior to the one accepted,
might finally have been reduced to one half, or
perhays one- tenth, of the sum flipuiated for by the
present companies,—but it is w ife to make no pro
feffions of declaiming ;pfch advantages, for, cre
dulity itfelf would ijpc yield them belief. Whe
ther it proceeds from poverty of intelleft or a pte
fumption that One of the people con impose upon,
the ref, conveys an equal xeflcdlion against him
who draws such conclusions as these, viz, * that as
the Framers of the Federal Constitution did not
feel bound to copy the Confederation, and the
framers of our State Constitution, did not confider
themselves bound to adopt any part of the preced
ing one, so the present Convention have an equal
right to proceed upon original principles indepen
dent of any political ties whatever :’—furely, it is
not necessary to fay that there is no analogy, and
still less so, that any part of a State Constitution
which militates with the Federal Compadt is tpfo
facto null and void.
BRUTUS.
The speech of a French curate to the National Affeni
bly of France, on the resignation of his ecdejiaflic
character and salary,falary , together with the treasures
of his church.—Mom hr on. Nov. 24, 179 q.
“I REJOICE in this day, not because lwifh
to fee religion degraded ; but because 1 wish to
fee it exalted and purified. By destroying its alli
ance with the (late, you have given it dignity,
and independence. You have done it a piece
of service which its well-withers would, perhaps,
never have had courage to render it; but which
was the only thing wanted to make it appear in its
genuine beauty and luftre.
Nobody will now fay to me, that I am perform
ing the office of my religion as a trade. He is
paid for telling the people such and such things—
He is paid to keep up an useless piece of mum
mery.”
They cannot now fry this; and, therefore, I
feel myfeif raised in my own eftcem, and (lull
speak to them with a confidence and franknefs,
which, before this, I never durst venture to affutnr.
We religo, without reluctance, our gold and
silver images'and embroidered veil meats; because j
..e have never found that gold and silver made the j
. u»ar-i more pure, or the attentions more heavenly. 1
f \ 1
We cart r also, spare oar churcUes. Fof't’v? V-m
that withes to lift up itfelf to God, will nevvj'nj
at a loss tor room to do it in: but we cannot ipare
our religion ; because, to tell you rhe truth, u'C
never had so much occasion for it.
I understand you accuse us priests of having told
the people a great many falfehoods. I suspect this
i may have been the eafej but, till this day, we
have never been allowed to enquire, whether the
things which we taught them, were true or not.
You required us formerly to receive them all with
out proof; and you would have us how to reject
them all without diferimination: neither of these
modes of conduct become poifolophere, such as
you would be thought to be.
lam going to employ myfelf diligently along
with my parishioners to fift the wheat from the .
bran, the true from the falfe. If we are not fuc
ccfsful, we lliall be at least fincerc.”
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- NOTICE.
THE Copartnerfhip of the fubfribets being dis
solved by mutual consent, they will dispose of
their Jlock in trade, confifing of a general afort
ment of GOODS, suitable fir the trade of tlii<
place. They will also dispose of the HOUSE and
LOT where they now tejide. The Goods may be
viewed by applying to the fubfribers.
GEORGE BARNES & Co.
N. B. We one ■ m re requefi theft who are indebted
to us on open account to come forward and close them
by bond or note.
Augujla, May 13, 1793.
EIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
Y 3 UN AWAY from the fubfri
£Srfi IV her, on Saturday night lift,
a Negro fellow named ALEX AN
jpy DER, of the Congo country, a
fJC '*!)>■ bout 43 years old, $ feet one inch
; high, speaks French, but very lit
tle tngli/h, has fume marks on his ireajl which are
not recolletlcd. The above reward zoill •be given on
delivering thefaidfellow in Augusta to
M. VERDERY. ;
May 13, 1795.
FIN A L NOr/ CE.
THE fubfribers having made many fruitlefs ap- '
plications to those indebted to them, as well as _
to Robert Dick & Co. for a fctllcmcnt of'their ac- *
counts, Now give this fnal Notice, to all concerned, «
that unless falisf actory fettlanents are made by the
1 sth May all accounts then unliquidated will be put
into the hands of an Attorney at Law to recover
without diferimination of pcrfoits. Those who are
indebted by Bond or Note will do well to avail than
fives also of this Notice if they wijh to avoid any
farther expence.
Wm. KENNEDY, & Co .
Augujla, March 26, 1795*
SHERIFFS SALE.
On the firft Tuefday in July next, at the Courf
lioufe in Wilkes county,
WILL BE SOLD,
ONE hundred and twenty-five acres of land in
Wilkes county, joining lands of Nathan Black
burn and others, ini hiding the plantation whereon
John Combs now lives', taken as the property offaid
Combs tofatisfy Aaron Lipkam*s execution.
NATHANIEL COATS, S’. W, C .
April 22, 1795.
S II Efi I F F’s SALE S.
On the firft Tuefday in July next, at the Court
house in Wilkes county,
W ILL B E .S' O L D,
THREE hundred acres of land in Wilkes county,
joining lands of Edmonds, Blaky and others,
including the plantation whereon William Stubble
feld nowiioes, to fatisfy two executions; taken as
the property of said Stubblfeld.
ALSO, two hundred acres of land in Elbert coun
ty, on Fork creek, joining lands of llaning and
others ; taken as the property of Thomas Murry,
Esq. to fatisfy James Murry .
J. WEBSTER, D. S. W. C.
WANT E D to H i R E,
SIX NEGROE BOVS or GIRLS
front ten. to twelve years of age,
to attend a Cotton Machine, lor
which good wages will be given and
the money paid monthly.
Wm. KENNEDY & Co.