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Mr. Smith,
WHEN i confider the elated and fanguinnry
expectations that were rendered abortive
by our last legislature; I am not aftoniflied at the
.incoherent jumble ot difeordant fluff, that is now
afloat among us. A number ofrefpeCtable citizens,
.are at a lof* to know, -whether this modern Zeno*,
is infligated by some malevolent persons to become
the tool of a party, or whether the fubrlepoifon he
is endeavouring to infufe into the minds ot the
community, flows fpontaniouliy from the avenues
of his own.contaminated disposition ? But this
Zeno and others notwithflanding their specious
pretences, ire deeply interefled in the fate of the
Yazoo Pig; and are endeavouring, to prejudice the
people agamft our last affcmbly; so that they may
again refufeitate him ; but if they think to impose
.on us by such sophisticated arguments, they are
egregiously miflak'.a ; For the late legislature has
our united thanks in a superlative degree ; and we
.pray just Heaven to reward them tor the noble
deed! by which myriads vet unborn will feel the
benefit, and chant forth their iprajfes in melodious
.accents.
Among the multiplicity of the scribblers of the
day ; it is you alone, Tim Sharp, appear in your
'proper charaAer. O Tim, what talents halt thou !
Thou canst vent more scurrility, in one of thy
fpuiious productions (against our executive magef
trate) than is contained in the whole atalantis; --
•but Hill thy system of opprobious tenets are like
“a root out of ground, -without form or comeli
tiefs;” “ thou certainly haft a devil.” Methinks
; I fee the cloven footed monfler, f.t brooding over
•thy unhajlowed foul; black as night, fierce as ten
furies, and terrible as hell! threatening total anni
hilation to truth, and justice; and aided by thy
own malignant spirit, involving every fpeci**s of
equity, that comes within thy vortex in a night of
Jivid gloom.
TOM PHY.
The REMEMBRANCER.
IT was to restore the loft charaAer of the date of
Georgia,-—it wastodifplay the dormant virtues
ot her icqueftered patriots;—it was to proclaim
to the world that our national honour would not
brook the semblance of speculation, and that the
hardy adventurers in the late purchasers of weftern
territory (houhl be made memorable examples to
future ages, to (hew what it was to aff.iil the pure
principles ofa re, uhlic on whose bosom such watch
ful guardians repose it was lor these gland pur-'
poses, fay the majority ot the late iegillamrc, that
a repeal of the tales was pafled,. and the records
burnt: I will not, with other writers on this tub
jeCt, (hew that contrary confluences have refulled
from these measures —I will not endeavor to de
jnonftrate (however easily it might be done) that
our political character, funk as it was, stood fairer
before this repeal,——or, that the virtue of our pa
triots, is but athirst for popularity, a pang of dif
.appointment and a gratification of personal pique,
—and that their anxiety for the national honor
.was but a trick for engrofling prnfion and place ;
nay, I will chearfully grant that the cpnduAers of
this repeal (like some men who from a frequent
recital of idealties, have, at last believed them to
be fa As) have so intimately cenneAed the idea of
the public good with their own exaltation and ad
vantage, that they have persuaded themselves, no
other alternative remained for the salvation of the J
slate but the adoption of their system : But I will
alk these Jlaming patriots, if in the ardency of their
zeal, they did not difeover an evil of superior
magnitude, and of infinitly more turpitude than
the sale of Yazou lands, and which of all the stains
in our national charaAer ought firrt to have been
wiped out, and being of a territorial nature, de
manded a special reform at the hands of men who
had (according to their own account) only obtain
ed feats in the legislature, to retrieve the loft cha
raAer of the state and expunge her infamy with re
fpeA to the disposition of her territory. I need
not fay I allude to what is called the pine barren
/peculation ! A speculation reprobated at home,
cursed abroad and which never had an avowed ad
vocate in any stage of its existence! To suppose
the representatives of the people ignorant of the fi
nefle, fraud and forgery ptaAifed under color of
law to obtain slate grants, (I may fay annually,)
for the fame land, would be to suppose them the
most ignorant part ofthe community. .But, how
ever uncharitable such a supposition would be,
the other which naturallv occurs, does away the
imputation :—lt is genarally known that mil
lions of acres, said to lie an the Oconee, the
Ohoopieand the Alatamaha rivers ha.'e been sur
veyed, platted and decorated with stations and
water courses in the taverns of Augnfta, that
the fabrication of Lacd warrants has been a source
,©f emolument to many,—and that the officers of
government.know thele things, but are warranted
by law to do their refpeAive parts towards the
completion of .these deceptive documents* whiltl
the several land aAs wear the most fpeciaus ap
pearance of containing checks fufficient to prevent
every imaginable imposition ; and thus, strangers
induced to confider the great fcal of Geor
gia a fufficient evidence of the identity and quan
tityof land expressed in the patent thereto attach
•d, have been grof&ly imposed upon by the ccimiv
ance of our leg.ifiatarr: Will they pretend ignc
lance and endeavor to (belter themselves under its
extended canopy'?—they cannot! tor official
ftatement9 requiring a redress of these enormities
dare them, in the face on their own files. -\V hat com
parison iithere betwixt the evil and.the far spread
infamy inseparably connected with it of luffitringthe
great seal of the (fate, the governor’s, secretary’s
and surveyor’s (ignature, to .be put repeatedly to
the fame identical traft of land, for the wretched
purpose of decoying the credulous foreigner, who
will perhaps less regret the loss of'his money, as
feel wounded by the circumvention, when he re
pairs to his supposed asylum where he has antici
pated future fafety and happiness, and finds, to
his utter mortification, he has no part or lot among
these who he has hitherto deemed the children ot
freedom, bnt now denounces as the organizers of
rapine and chicane; I fay, what comparison is
there betwixt this evil, and that which has been
aggravatingly flyled “a felling of the birth-rights
of the peopie of .Georgia,” fay, ye profound le
gislators! was it in order that Yazoo lapds might
be as frequently granted as the fteiile tradls of the
Ohoopie, and become a freffi source of infamy and
disgrace to our public reputation that you have
declared the purchases invalid, and wiih them to
become fubjeft to the fame ignominious traffic with
those lands now granted by the Hate! It is plain
to a demonstration, that you had no room for re
fledtion in the progreis of the repeal, for policy,
nay, common sense would have fuggeded a leform
in .the one case-as an indifpenfahle prelude to any
interference in the other ; but deafened with the
clamors of prejudice and disappointment, aod allur
ed with the phantom, popularity, you cenlidered
propriety as a very secondary objedl, and claim a
merit in dispatching all other business-without any
degree of attention or decorum, to Hand as a foil
to the ajjiduity , preeijion and ability exercised in
framing the repeal! A perusal of the other laws
paffid during the lafl session will fully jodify the
foregoing remark; indeed, we have only to re
fledt that we are without any superior court in the
upper and middle didridts, and be too well con
vinced of the truth of the observation. Were
it possible for the repeal to operate, we {hould then
have the bed evidence of the motives of those
whose funds and assiduity brought it about: The
Union company would be ready to claim the re
wards of their indndry and to avail themselves of
the honorable mention made of them in every writ
ing against the sales, from Sicilius’ letters to the
repeal itfelf; and had the pine barren jpeculation
involved their incereds as it does the depuration of
the (fate, we'ill ou Id have had a wetfpunge drawn
across every land law of the (fate, and a fyffem de
novo effablifned,—an immaculate counter part to
the Louisville abortion ! but these men have never
concerned with paper fields or painted boundaries,
—such reform is not their province,— their pur
suits are of a more fubdantia! nature, and they (fill
dream of terra firma on the (bores cf the Missis
sippi.
—mil ill 1 iii'l ■
PARIS, May ii.
Before the palling over of a fortnight, a second
conspiracy has been formed by terrorism, notwiih
(tanding its exiitence has been obdinately denied
by the hall accomplices and. hireling writers, who
have endeavoured to change its complexion, to
, prevent its being recognized, and to- thwart the
efficacious measures it was necessary to adopt against
their indefatigable accomplices. Great praise is
due to the directory! Clear-lighted, notwithstand
ing-the greater part-cf those by whom it is-sur
rounded seem to he paid to mi Head .its members,
it has held out to public indignation, it has coura
geoully brought forward to notice the most dange
rous enemies of France-—the eternal enemies of
toe good citizens, those wno are in a permanent
conspiracy against every elfablifhed government,
because disorder is their element, pillage their
hope, and* maflacres their means and their plea
sures.
We (ball now content ourselves with adding a
few details, in addition to the particulars already
given in the proceedings of the council, relative to
the new conspiracy from which we are extricated.
Its aim was to overthrow the conduction of i 79 c.-
The conspirators fpokeof re-edabliffiing the anar
chical code ot 1793* but they will soon have done
what .they have already twice 'uceeded in doing.
Their cheriffied conditution would have been plac
ed among thefacred archives, and we (hould soon
have had a second edition of revolutionary tyran
ny. The convention would have been re-created,
and the deputies not<7e-eledled, would have taken
the place of the new third. In consequence aimed
all of the deputies of the new third, the greater
part of the jeventy-three of those outlawed, and all
those of the other deputies didinguiffied by their
probity, their energy, and their detedation of the
anarchids, together with the members of the di
rectory, several miniders, and the commanders of
the armed force, were to have been apprehended
early this morning, and afterwards butchered.
itn men were tor this purpose to ha''e proceeded
to each of their houses A part of the gunners
had been bought over, and it isfaid, that the con
spirators had at their command thirty field pieces.
At day break the barriers were to have beer, (but,
the were ta rake place, and tfce toc
<ln to be founded. The plunder of all the houses
was to have been permitted on pretext of fuppjyip,
the wants of the people. The conspirators did
our brethren in arms the injudice to think, that
the temptation of this p lunder would have attached
them to their cause. ,
The plot was denounced to the diredtory by
some of the conspirators themselves, who appeared
to tremble at the moment of the approach (or its
< execution. The directory immediately brouofit
up the armed force, which surrounded the com
mittee of revolt; at the head of this committee
was Drouet, a member of the council of five hun
dred. He had with him sixty of the principal
terrorists when his house was surrounded. Several
of his colleagues date, that lince his return from
Aufiria, they have heard him openly speak of the
plan of overthrowing the conditution ar.d the di
rectory. Prior to his detention in the prisons cf
Germany, he was one of the moll serious moun
taineers. On the 3id of May, he played a veiy
didinguiffied part—— he was more -especially fie
firous, he said to revenge the death of Romu e,
Soubrany Bouchotte, and other mountaineers ex
ecuted lad year, for having been implicated in
the revolt of the id Prairial.
The hidory, and the papers which prove the
conf t iracy, will without doubt be publiffied by
the direCtoiy. Thirty-five of the principal con
spirators are apprehended. Babocuf’s interrogato
ry is particularly intereding. We are allured that
his confefficns are very important, ard well cal
culated to throw a light on this horrible plot. He
was taken ill at the minider’s house but was reco
vered by a glass of water. Among those appre
hended, we have collected the followig names;
Babefue, editor of the Tribune of the people;
Langnelet, ex conventionalid, who was appre
hended lad year as an accomplice of the infunt c
tion of id Prairial; Ricors, ex-conventionalifi,
companion of Rohef, ierre the younger in his mis
sion at T oulon, a!fo apprehended on the id Prai
rial; Charles, ex-ccnventionalid, formerly impri
soned in the Chateau of Ham; Darrhes, Bou
chette’s secretary ; -the secretary of Jtifeph Lcbon ;
Germain, Commiffionei of the directory at Ver
sailles; Roffignol, ex-general in La Vendee, ai d
Antannelle,.a writer in the Journal des Hcmmes
Libres.
Four hundred thousand livres in fpccie had been,
expended in maturing the conspiracy. We ars
affined that the agents of the present mlnider cf po
lice received .200,000 livres of this money, wbuh
they have faithfully deposited in the office of po
lice. Several proofs are edabliffied that the affiaf
fins of the Lyons courier who are apprehended*
were sent on that business by the conspirators. They
killed him for the purpose of getting into their
hands considerable sums of specie he had about
him, with which they were to pay their partifans*.
B A S .L E, April 27.
Count Wurmfer has jud w’rirtffi to the Cantn*
of Berne, to fay that the supposition of the French.
Directory, that it is the plan of Conde’s army tf*
force its way into .France by the Swiss territory, is
without foundation, and that there never w’as such.
a plan. The Marefhal at the fame time allures the
Canton, that the neutrality of the Swiss cantons
will be fcr.upuloufiy refpeCtcd, so long as the French
themselves (hail not afFoid an example of its vio
lation.
b A LMOUT H, [Jam.) June 22.
On Wednesday lad, arrived here, the American
(hip Augusta, captain Callahan, from Charledon,
lalt from Cape Nicholas Mole. By this (hip. we
are informed, that on the nth inftar.t, 42 trans
ports, a (loop of war, two Indiamen of 50 guns
each, having on board 6?qo British troops, arriv
ed fafe at Cape Nichola M ile from St. Lucia and
Demerara. The troops were all landed in good
health, under the command of generals White and,
Churchill.
During the time captain Callahan was at the
Mole, the British with 2000 infantry, and 500
horse, made an attack upon Bombarde, a strong
French pod about twelve miles from the Platform*
From the inhuman condudl of the French at this
pod to the Engliffi prisoners, which the fortune
of war threw in their hands, it was thought pro~
per by the Britilh commanders, prior to their at
tack, to call a council of war, to know if such
men were entitled to mercy (hould the pod be car
ried ; at this council of war there was a majority
of only one ro save the lives of the prisoners. The
attack being made by the Briiifh, the French beat
a parley, and hauled down their colours—-The
British, fup’pofing the pod carried, and the French
prisoners of war, were marching into the fort,
and a soldier hoiding the Engliffi colours, when,
horrid to relate, the gates were (hut upon them,
and the man hoiding the colours was ripped up,
the French colours again hoided, and a tremendous
fire of small arms from large bodies of concealed
French soldiers upon the British ; the unfortunate
officers and soldiers which had got into the fort
were indantly put to death, and great (laughter
among them that were outlide then marching up.
We have nor been able to learn the number of
officers and men that fell in this treacherous action*
but we are sorry to add, that general Churchill
was among the miffing, and there is great appre
hension for his fafety.
T he British troops being HrorgJy reinforced,
had made the fccor.d attack before canr,
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