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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, SI i 4