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Piom Cass? 8c Ma*kla!cd'« Daily , Advertise*. COMMUNICATION, ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDI NARY. Whereas the partnership of Peter Por - j lupine (3 George Rex, is this day dissolv ed, by mutual consent, in consequence of the (aid George Rex refufing to pay j fpecie* according to the nature of his agreement. All persons indebted to the (aid Porcupine & Rex, are requeft*! to make speedy payment, and those to whom they Hand indebted, to render their accounts to Peter Porcupine, Phi ladelphia ; who is authorifed to fettle said partnetihip. April t 9, 1797. To PETER PORCUPINE. The wickedness and audacity of your designs, to involve this country in a war with the French republic, and attach her again to Great- Britain, can be equal led only by the baseness with which you endeavour to impefe upon the ignorant, and to smooth over the pad condudt of the latter nation. In one of your papers, feme time finer, you quoted a speech of general Walhington to the fix nations of Indians, fpok'm in the year 1737, and alk, what has Britain done since that time to alter our good opinion of her ? Nothing! ! This answer of yours amounts to a de clatation that America had no cause to Complain, that (he was the aggreflor in the late war; that her inhabitants were rebels, and her cause unjust; that cause for which Walhington, Adams, Hancock, Franklin, Warren, Montgomery, Pain, and Mercer, with a long lift of venera ble patriots, contended : Many of whom sealed their country’s freedom with their blood. It is a libel on the condutt of every one who afiifted in the revolution ; nay, more, it is a libel on the judge of «U the earth, inasmuch as it makes out that he fuffered injustice to prevail. Did not Britain wage a cruel and un provoked war against us for seven years, carrying fire and sword throughout the Union ? Did (he not hire foreign merce naries, unacquainted with our language, and inftrud them to give no quarter, as they would receive none from us? Did (he not let loose the lawless lavages on our frontiers ? Did (he not mafllicre some of our citizens in cold blood, and ftar;e hundreds, nay thousands, of others to death in prifonsand prison (hips ?* Did not waste and carnage invaiiably mark the footfteps of her armies, and cruelty end opprefiion characterize the edicts of her generals ?+ Did (he not sack our towns, ravage our fields, and violate our women? In Ibort, what did (he not do that was base, cruel, and vindictive ? You may, perhaps, deny these charges; but the monuments of Britilh infamy are too numerous, and too well attested to be ever obliterated from the mind of A mewcans. Look to the sanguinary Ice ties of Paoli, where 300 men were butcher ed ; molt of them calling for quarters , and many of them even a/king mercy on their knees. Recollect the murder of colonel Ledyard, and the brave gsriifon of New-London Call to mind the de ftruAion of Kfopus, and the turning of 60 families out of doors, in a helpless condition, at an inclement season of the year, the ground being then covered with snow: Read the tragical death of colo nel Haine, captain Huddy, and young • —. * Gordon's hiftory of the war fays, (hat 11,000 American prisoners died on board the Jersey prison lhip in the har bour of New-York, during the last fix years of the war. Hopkinfon fays, that prisoners in the stare-house yard, in this city, were found dead, with unchewed grass in their mouths; and general re ports confirm these assertions. + See Burgoyne’s proclamation, in which he threatens to deft toy all before him, and to give a loose to the lavages under his command, and general Howe's orders to hang all inhabitants taken in arms, ur.lefs commanded by an officer. These orders were taken with the Hes sians at Trenton. J When New-London was taken, a colonel Ledyard was (lain by the Britilh commander, with his own (word : Soon after which, captain Ledyard came in a prisoner from an out post, and faying he was lorry for his brother's death, was answered by the officer, and “ / arn damn'd glad.” M‘Coy, ts all murdered tn cold blood; and the latter for no other reason than that his father was one of the defenders of his country; and the more than savage barbarity afted upon Miss fM‘Crea. Yet these are the people who have done nothing to alter our good opinion of them since the year 1757! And you, their immaculate hero, the ohjeft of whose million is to (hew that the declaration of independence, the foundation of cur po litical system, was not only unnecessary, but that the charges therein exhibited against the Britilh government, are talfe and flimfy pretences, and the people of the United States a band of rebels, of whom Walhington, Franklin, &c. were the ringleaders! Say this in plain terms, and then t the generality of people will fee at once the baseness of your designs; and rest allured, that a people who were able to repel Britilh, German, Negro and Indian hoft6, armed with every war like and torturous weapon, are not to be conquered by a Angle corporal armed with quill of a despicable porcupine. But in order to impose on the unin formed, you Ihelter yourfelf behind the names of Walhington, Adams, and Jay ; as if the whole welfare of America, now or in any former period, depended on them alone ; or as if you thought thereby to elcape the ferutinizing eyes of a peo ple jealous of their liberty, and more de voted to measures than to men. In a preceding paper you fay they (meaning the Britilh troops) attacked the hen-roods and deinolilhed the hog-pens----true, they were always noted for robbing the farmers wherever they came, from the general down to the private.+ But I have been informed, that wilhingto ex tend their depredations, they once made an attack upon the Cow-pens in which they were not so fuccefsiul as at the hen roofts. To conclude, Peter, as the cause of despotism, which you have undertaken to support, is the basest that can be ima gined, so I think we ought not to be fur.-rill'd if you (hould stoop, as you have done, to the basest means whereby to gain your point: Mean time, ycur odious writing mull excite contempt in the bosom of every GENUINE AMERICAN. * Colonel Haine was hanged by lord Rawdon, now the earl Moira and colo nel Balfour, wiihout a regular trial. Captain Huddy was fuffered to be taken from the Provolt Prison in New- York, after having been three weeks kept as a prisoner of war, carried to the Jersey ihore, and there hanged wiihout judge or jury. Young M‘Coy was wantonly hanged by colonel Browne, in South-Carolina, before his mother’s face, though he had never taken aims, being only 18 years old. + In 1778, when general fir Henry Clinton palled through New-Jersey, a lady of the name ot Conover, 01 Coven hoven, at whole house he made his quar ters, had secreted her effects; but upoh passing his word of honour, that nothing (hould be removed or destroyed, she a gain sent for them and then left the house : But on her return, after fir Henry’s de parture, (he found her loss by appraife ment, to amount to 3000. See the New-Jersey Gazette for 1778, with the affidavits, &c. relating thertn. | The battle of the Cow-pens, in South-Carolina. MISCELLANY. ** Peace gently Jpreads her balmy wings, “ And bamjh'd from the courts oj kings, Has fix'd her mansion here.” from me ye croaking ravens! {fays a writer in a late daily paper). Fly tar Irom hence, thou party babber. Sweetly smiling peace, and heavenly li berty, have laid the lading foundation of their temple here. The beneficence of providence has decreed that freedom and the mutes Shall eftabliih their pappy em pire in Columbia’s genial foil. How delightful is the foft melodious voice of harmony ! Like the smoothly gliding ftteam, it soothes the mind to fe renitv and ease. The plealing accents of benevolence awake each finer feeling of the heart; each gentle fibre vibrates to the found; each tender chord becomes attuned to virtue and to happiness. \ e who delight in war ; ye who can solace yourselves with fpectaclcs of blood and misery! Rest d oh! For a fiugle moment think-—how much ye have to lose, how little to acquire* Baailh then, far from )-Sj difi:or^ » let the foiling cherub of humanity cfta bliih his dominions within your breasts. Who is it that brings the evil tidings of hoftilrties ? Who has blaiied the trum pet of deftrudlion through our streets? What evil spirit (hall summon the people to the field oi battle before their country's good requires it ? 6 Who will be so hardy to assert, that war is certain and inevitable ?---Who so wicked to inflame the public miud with anger and resentment ? When the evil day arrives we (hall gird ourselves with the armour of justice and fortitude : But until then, we will not be put to the tor ture upon the wanton rack of anticipati on. Until then, Hence loathed Melancholy ! Os Cerberus and blacked Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Midft horrid (hapes, and {bricks, and fights unholy : Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, * And the night-raven sings: There under ebon (hades and low brow’d rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. £> <z+ O *• O <> O 5 From a Vienna Paper of February 20. His imperial majesty being informed that a general opinion prevailed all over Europe, which had even been supported in the British house of commons, by au thentic documents, of general la Fayette, his family, and fellow prisoners, fuf fering in the dungeons of Olmutz the in oft barbarous treatment; that they have been for years kept rigorously confined in separate cells, infedted with the pelti lential air of a morass and a common fewer, of two barracks and two hospi tals, without being allowed the benefit of either air, exercise, or intercom fe with each other; that the health of the prisoners were so far impaired as to re quire medical assistance aimoft daily has just ordered that commiflioners {hould be appointed to inquire particularly into the former treatment and the present situation of the prisoners; and that an authenticated report (hould be sent with out delay to the court. The curiosity of the public, so much interested in favour of those unhappy viftims, is strongly excited to know what was the motive, and what is like ly to be the result of this order. Is it in consequence of his imperial majesty being now, for the fiift time, acquainted wish the 'reitment of the prisoners? or of the >ffi:id declaration made by the British minister, that he had no (hare in it ? Has the magnanimous conduct of the emperor of Ruflia towards Kofciuflco, by which he has so unequivocally dif ciaimed bring an accomplice of the per fecctors of la Fayette, disposed our court to follow his example? Is it at last that cut ministers, anticipating the notifica tion intended to be made by the directo ry, that the prisoners at Olmutz were considered by the French government as prisoners of war, avail themfclves ot the opportunity to jnftify the detention of the tl .ee French officers and have refulv ed in consequence to treat them as pri soners of war; and to allow them to breathe cut of their dungeons, to take exercise, and to fee one another? What ever may be the motive of the enquiry, which cannot possibly terminate but in the relief, or even the liberation of the cap tives ; we need not observe that the re port of tlie commiflioners cannot but be reprobated by all Europe as undeserving of credit, unless the inveftigarion be fair • ly and openly managed by men o( honour able and independent cha rafter, notirflu -1 enced by personal interest, bv fear orcor ruofion ; and unless the report is facfticri ed by the iignatures of the parries con cerned, or ar ieaft that it he open to their observations in oppoiition to those of the comiiiiiiioncrs. +&***&* N O T I C E. A LARGE leather trunk, x containing blankets, cloths, plates, dra. was sent to me by Mr. William Wallace from Savannah, which I find is not mine ; the owner is reqjefted to pay the charges and take it a*’ay. SAMUEL JACK. April 2 0, 1737. J. W. DEVEREUX, 1 Contractor anb Quarte* sA k gM strr, F. T. G. j Begs leave to inform the public that h ; i, bl opening at his Jlores at Sparta Br j V Montpellier, ■ A handjome Assortment of ™ Frefii Dry GOODS/J Which were purchased in New-Yoftw and Philadelphia, with prompt payment M and which he intends difpcftng 0 1 at ji moderate advance for cash or ttierrhan.! table produce; he also has almost evttyß article in the grocery line, which he win fell on reasonable terms; he will pn r .» chafe or barter for flour, coin-meal,B beef, pork, coin, tallow and soap at the* market prices. Sparta , Jan. 20, i 797« « A VEN DR £ 1 L*encyclopedie j0 J Didtionnaire raifonne desl Sciences, des Arts & des Me.:'] tiers. Cet ouvrage contienty 39 vol. favoir36 vol. in Bvo. Mlj 3, vol. de planches, in Editions exa&ement conforme|| a celle de Pellet, in quarto. S On peut s’informer a cet Im.fl primerie. W Sheriff's Sales. I On the fir ft Tuefday in June next, ii| the court house in Buike county j WILL BE S OLD, g 300 acres of land the proper-* ty of Stephen Johnson, adjoining lands of I Jldnnjon and Gray ; taken at the irjlanctM oj JaJhua Williams. I Also 350 aires ojpine land, the prcbir.M ty of Howell Hargrove ; taken by vtmil of two executionsjor cojls. M 340 acres of pine land, taken as tltH property of Joseph Baity , dec. for cost, ft] Also, 20v acres of Savannah riverjrnnim land , 600 acres oj pine land, 400 acrtsijm pine land, 100 acres oj pine land; wi<H negroes, four head oj horjes, and a jlsi B of cattle ; taken as the property of j nab I Grintr , dtceajcd, at the juits oj WuiiaiA I Vince, William Oliver, CuyUr and Ra« ■ btrts, this 22d day of April, 1797. 1 JAMES LEWIS, S. B. C. j r | ’ , AKEN up by the fubferiber, onH X Butler's creek, a BAY MARE, a about four feet, five or fix inches high,H about fix or seven years old ; branded 0,11 the near shoulder M, hanging mane .ml! long switch tail; has some saddle foots B and some white hairs on her, which ap- ■ peais to have been occasioned by a '.ur-1 feit. 1 ROBERT W’ALTON. 1 Richmond county, April 12, 179"- | To the Public. j THE fubferiber has fitted upl complete stables, in Broad-ltreer,™ Augulfu, near the market-houie, wlter!!-! hotfes entrufied to him will be takesH good care es and well fed at 37 1-2 centiß 1 tor eveiy 24 hours. He has a Itanle where he receives horses affiiCteiß with the yellow-water or Indian tever-'B for this hitherto supposed incurable <li*B feafe in horses, and which has killed many valuable ones, he can afiure tteß public he has found a fpecific remcf'iß if the disease is not in its lalt flage. MB cure no pay. 1 BARNABAS F. PAYNE. I Augxtjla, April 27, 1707. J fubferiber informs the that he h is recommenced the II A >-■ TING BUSINESS in Auguita, where! all kinds of ladies and gentlemens h afl ! are tv. de and repaired in the bell orannei* with difi-ateh and pumftuality. I He also engages to give the fo.le’V,"B prices for the different kinds ot fur, -■! wit, ■ For good Grey Fcx Doll. 0 5B Racoon *’■ Wild Cat 3 : l Otter Skins * Mu fit rat ■ B- aver per pound 1 And for all other forts of ly made use of by hatters, in the abO'B propoition. , I ISAAC RANDOLU^I tyfj* Blank Deeds ot C^B vdvances and blank Bonds U'l i fade bv the Printer hcreci* i ' J u