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oi the Etc State T/cops';' ard aifc the
flai’/.s of George Ard rt kin, Robert An.
dr Ton, the hetrs of Jofcph Edge, dec,
IfaaV' Matthews, William Farmer and
Miles Laurence, as soldiers in the late
o,ate Troops, piovided that he fliall find
find vouchers to he genuine.
ABRAHAM JACKSON, Speaker
of the House of Rrpvf/entatvves,
SOLOMON WOOD, Prejidentof
the Smote, pro tun.
AiTer.rcdto, May 9. 1803.
jOilN MILLEUGc,, Governor.
AK ACT explanatory of on Aft enti.
1u d y an Atl to amend an Ad entitled,
“An Aii to rev Je and amend the 'Ju
sticiary SjJiem oj tbit Stale, pajfed
the Jixtnnth day of February 1799,
so far at rtf petti the perjon or perfun s
author'd',d to take the bonds or obliga
tions ft cm Sheriffs , and the time for
holding courts in the Eafttrn Dis net ,
pajfed the sth day of December l£oi.”
TX/TIEREAS doubts have arisen re
v ' feeding the proper pfcrfona author.
Let!, ur intended by law, to take the
hoods or obligations of the Sheriffs of this
State, for remedy whereof—
-1 L it enailed by the Senate and House
us Repreftntaiives of the State of Gear
(/ a y in General Affemhly met, 'J liar e
,. j v Judge of the Superior, or a majority
pf the juiUces of the inferior courts, of
tlie respective counties throughout this
State, is, and are, and by intendment
of law ought to have been taken, held,
deemed and confide red, as competent in
Jaw, to take the bonds or obligations of
Sheriffs, and to qualify them as by law
direlied.
Sec. 7. And be it further enailed.
That the riflne for holding the Superior
Courts in the Eaffcrn Diltrilt, fall term,
{hall be on the fourth Monday in Oftober
in Camden county —the Monday there,
after in Glynn—the Monday thereafter
•in M‘lntolh—the Monday thereafter in
Liberty—the Monday thereafter in Bry.
an—the Monday thereafter in Bulloch—
the Monday thereafter in Effingham—
and the firft Monday in January in Cha
tham.
Sec. 3. And he if further enailed,
That all manner of writs and actions, and
all writs or precedes, as well jurors and
witnefles, and all manner ofbufmefs of
every kind or defeription whatever, now
depending in any of the courts aforefaid,
lhall Band over and be alted upon at the
feverai periods herein pointed out for
holding (aid courts, in the lame manner
as if no alterations had taken place as to
the time of holding the said courts, any
hw to the contrary notwithstanding,
ABRAHAM JACKSON, Speaker
of the House of Rep refen / a five s,
SOLOMON WOOD, President of
the Senatey pro tim.
Alien ted to, May, it, 1803.
JOHN MILLEDGE, Governor.
THOMAS PAINE
To the Citizens of the United States ,
LETTER THE SEVENTH.
RELIGION and war is the cry of the
'edcralilts ; morality and peace the voice
of republicans. The union of morality
and peace is congenial; but that of re
gion and war is a paradox, and the fo
latton of it is hypocrisy.
The leaders of the federallfts have no
judgment; their plans no consistency of
pairs; ard;want of confiftcncy is the na,
;ural confequcncc of want of principle.
They; exhibit to the world the curious
fpeltacle of an oppofttion without a cavse
and conduced without system. Were
they, as doctors, to preferibe medicine,
as they pradife politics, they would poi.
fbn their patients with deftrudive com
pounds.
There are not two things more oppof
od to each other than war and religion j
und yet, in the double game, thole lea.
ders have to play, the one is ncceffarily
the theme of their politics, and the other
the text of their sermons. The week
day orator of Mars, and the Sunday
preacher of Federal Grace, play, like
gamblers, into each other's hands, and
this they call religion.
Though hypocrisy can counterfeit eve
ry virtue, and become the aflbeiate of
every* vice, it requires a great dexterity
of craft to give it the power of deceiving.
A painted fun may glisten but it cannot
warm. For hypocrisy to perfonate vir
tue fuccefsfully it must know and feel
what virtue is, and as it cannot long do
this it cannot long deceive. When an
orator foaming for war, breathes forth
other sentence a plaintive piety of
words, he may as well write hypocri
sy on his. front.
The late attempt of the federal leaders
L ;®ngrefs (for they aded without the
■ A
knowledge of then cu:fiitm ; !s) to plur.ge
the country into war, merits not cn.y
reproach, but indignation. Ir was mad
' net’s conceived in ignorance and ittcd In
wickedness. The head and the heart
went partners in the crime.
A ncglcft of punctuality in the per
formance of a treaty is made a cause of
war by the Embury Powers, and of rc
monllrapce and explanation by civilized
powers. The Mahomedans of Barbary
negotiate by the sword—they
and expoflulate afterwards ; and the fede
ral leaders have been laboring to barhn.
rife the United States by adopting the
praftice of the Barbary States, and this
they call honor. Let their honor and
their hypocrisy go weep together for both
are defeated. The present adminiftra
lion is too moral for hypocrites and too :
economical for public fpendthrifts.
A man the kaft acquainted with di
plomatic affairs, mull know, that a ne
gkft in punftuality is not one of the le
gal causes of war, unless that neglect be
confirmed by a refufal to perform j and
even then it depends upon circumfianres
connected with it. The world would be
in continual quarrels and war, and com.
merccibc annihilated, if Algerine policy
was the law of nations. And were Ame
rica, infiead of becoming an example to
the Old World of good and moral go
vernment, and.civil manners, or if they
like it better, of gentlemanly conduft
towards other nations, tofet up the cha
raftcr of ruffian, that of word and a blow,
and the blow firjl , and thereby give the
example of pulling down the little that
civilization has gained upon barbarism,
her independence, infiead of being an ho.
qor and a blessing would become a curse
upon the world and upon herfelf.
The conduft of the Barbary Powers,
though unjull in principle, is suited to
their prejudices, ftcuation, and circum
flances. The crusades of the church to
exterminate them, fixed in their minds
the unobliteratcd belief that every Chri
stian power was their mortal enemy.
Their religious prejudices, therefore, fug
ged the policy, which their situation and
circumstances pioteft them in. As a peo
ple, they are neither commercial nor a.
gricultural, they neither import nor ex
port, have no property floating on the
seas, nor ships and cargoes in the ports
of foreign nations. No retaliation, there
fore, can be a (fled upon them, and they
fin fecurefrom punilhment.
But this is not the case with the Unit- ’
ed States. If (he fins as a barbary pow
er she mall answer for it as a civilized
one. Her commerce is continually pass.
ing on the seas exposed to capture, and
her ships and cargoes in foreign ports to
detention and reprisal. An aft of war
committed by her in the Mifliflippi would
produce a war against the commerce of
the Atlantic States, and the latter would
have to curse the policy that pirovoked
the former. In every point, therefore,
in which the charafter and interest of the
United States be confidcred, it would ill
become her to set an example contrary
to the policy and cuflom of civilized
powers, and praftifed only by the bar
bary powers, that of finking before she
expofiulates.
But can any man, calling himfelf a legis
lator, and supposed by his constituents
to know something of his duty, be fb ig
norant as to imagine that seizing On New.
Orleans would finifh the affair or even
contribute towards it. On the contrary,
it would have made it worse. The trea
ty right of deposit at New-Orleans, and
the right of the navigation of the Mifftf
fippi into the gulph of Mexico are distant
things. New-Orleans is more than an
hundred miles in the country from the
mouih of the river, and as a place of de
posit is of no value, if the mouth of the
river be (hut, which either France or
Spain could do, and which our poffeflioa
of New-Orleans could neither prevent
nor remove. New-Orleans in our pos
session, by an aft of hoflility. Would have
become a blockaded port, and consequent
ly of no value to the wdlern people as a
place of deposit. Since, therefore, an
interruption had arisen to the commerce
of the wellern Hates, and until the rnat
fer could be brought to a fair cxplaiia
tion, it was of less injury to have the
port shut and the river open, than to 1
have the river shut, and the port in our
possession.
That New-Orleans could be taken re
quired no llretch of policy to plan, nor
spirit of enterprise to effeft. It was like
marching behind a man to knock him
dowo j and the dastardly slyness of foch
an attack would have flained the fame of
the Linked States. Where there is
no danger cowards are bold, and captain!
Rcbrd’j. arc to be fboe.d in fsTKttrs as
w cji zn the Even Cu*. e* trfti*
ct; futh a march daic have sh» wn a leg.
'1 he people of the weftern country, to
whom tlie Mlflifiippi ftrves as an inland '
le.t to iiicir commerce, mull be flippofed
to understand the circumltances of that
commerce better than a man who is a
Stranger to it j and as they have shewn
o approbation ol the war-hoop measures
" 'oi the tied era 1 senators, it becomes pre
emptive evidence they disapprove them.
This is a new mortification to those war
whoop politicians ; for the case is, that
finding ihemfelves looting ground and
withering away in the Atlantic states,
they, laid hold of the affair of New-Or
leans in the vain hope of rooting and
re-iiaforcing themselves in the weftern
states ; and they did this without per
ceiving, that it was one of those ill
judged hypocritical expedients in politics
that whether it fuccecded or failed, the
event- would be the fame. Had their
motion fuccedtd it would have endanger
ed the commerce of the Atlantic states
and ruined their reputation there ; and on
the other hand, the attempt to make a
tool of the weftern people was so badly
concealed as to extinguish all credit with
them.
But hypocrisy is a vice of a sanguine
constitution. It flatters and promises ir
feif every thing ; and it has yet to learn,
with refpeft to moral and political repu
tation, it is less dangerous to offend than
to deceive.
(Conclud'd in our next.)
$ $$ $ $ $-? ■*>•s 4 ■&<(? f 4 4 « #
SHERIFFS sales.
At Elbert court-kou/e, the JirJl Tuefday
in July next,,
WILL BE SOLD,
600 acres of land, more or
less, Elbert county, Iving on Broad ri
ver, joins Memorable Walker and others,
improved, it being the place where Evan
Ragland now lives; taken as the proper
ty of said Ragland, to fatisfy sundry ex
ecutions.
Three beds and furniture, one large
chest, fix chairs, one large looking glass,
and some other things, too tedious to
mention; taken as the property of James
Huff, to fatisfy sundry executions.
ioo acres of land, more or left, El
bert county, lying on Bcavcrdam creek,
improved, joins Benjamin Brown and
William Puiliam, one 63 gallon still;
taken as the property of Joseph Pulli
am.
One saw gin ; taken as the property
of George Greenwood, to fatisfy a
judgment obtained by Robert Thompson
against Leroy Upfhaw and said Green
wood.
One negro woman named Nelly, two
beds and furniture, in the possession of
Samuel Patton; taken as the property of
Levi D. Smith.
200 acres of land, Elbert county, ly
ing on Cold Water creek, joins William
Farly and others, well improved, it
being the place where Jolhua Tyner now
lives; taken as the property of said
Tyner.
Two beds, one trunk, one table, and
fomc other articles; taken as the pro
perty of Robert Smith, to fatisfy sun
dry executions.
90 acres land, improved, Elbert coun
ty, Cold Water creek, joins L. M‘Cur
ry —rco acres land in said county, and
on said creek, joining John Appling and
Reuben Jones —Also, rzo acres said
county and creek, joins Franklin Cun
ningham ; taken as the property of John
Cunningham, to fatisfy sundry executi
ons, and returned to me by a conftabl^.
Also, two half acre lots in Edenboro’,
adjoining Chipraan’s cotton gin, on
each fide of the main street—also, one
half acre lot lying in said town of E
denborough, adjoining Middleton’s ware
house, on the north fide of the street ;
taken as the property of Charter Har
pers, to fatisfy sundry executions, and
returned to me by a c-mftable,
R. MIOOLETON, Sheriff,
May *5.
s ——• —•
GEORGIA, Warren County.
By Septimus Weatherby, clerk of
the court of Ordinary for said county,
TXfHEREAS William White,jun. has
applied for letters of adminiflrati
on on the ejlate and effeEts of William
White, fen. late of this county, dec .
THESE are therefore to cite and admo
nijh all and jtngular the kindred and cre
ditors of the said deceased, to be and
appear at my office, within the time al
lowed by law, to Jhew cause, if any they
have, why said lettsrs ffiould not be grant •
ed,
GIVEN under my hand at office, t his
tfl ds* of June, 1803-
& WEAf H3RBY, c c o, K
PORTION
CADIZ. 7^;.
This mr tning hao hiilrtfo 1 uv. o:*,
tremely stormy here. BdTdcs d.eiVlgan*
Juno, of 36 guns, and the Camahn*,
on boaul of which were 6co,ccorUftef'.,
no less than fix (liips went down in cur
harbour, from the 9th to the I2ih, cart
ly laden with indigo, cochinal, li g;,-,
&c. After they had loft their amhoi-,
and cables, they were dallied on the ccalt
by the raging billows.
FROM BOURDEAUX.
March 27.
The Dey of Algiers having received
30,000 dollars from Spain, and very con
fidcrablc presents from Denmark, sent for
citizen Thainville, commilfary general
of the French Republic, and told him,
that all nations sent him money, and rh..c
the First Consul has neglefted, and had
sent nothing. That France had formerly
sent him prefenrs. Citizen Thainville
then reminded him of the article in the
letter to the/Firft Consul, by Gen. Hul
lin, in which the Dey renounced all
claims to presents. This reply tluew the
Dey into a violent pallion, with fevero
threatning. Upon the arrival of the
news at Paris, the Miniller of Marine
fitted out two frigates for Algiers, under
lire command of citizen Gourdon, with
orders to take on board the comini flary
general and his family, and to inform
the Dey, that if he once declared war,
he must remember, that he could not tell
where it would end* Upon the arrival
of the frigates, the people crowded the
palace of the Dey, to represent to him
the evils which threatened them.
The Dey sent for Thainville and de
manded the intention in fending the fri
gates. He told the Dey the orders from
France, Do you wish to have war with
me ? said the Dey.—No, replied the
commissary, but the firft consul is too
powerful to be your tributary.—After
feme' dispute, the Dey added, he shall
pay nothing : 1 wish to be at peace with
him. Write to him that I recall my de
mand. So the affair ended. The com
miiTary was conduced from the palace of
the Dey amidst the acclamations of the
multitude, which exprefled the strongest
delires to beat peace with France. The
commissary returned to his poll, and the
frigates returned to Toulon,
From the Cape of Good Hope,
Capr. Richard Gardner, palTenger in
the Franklin, from the Cape, has favor
ed us (Salem Editor,) with 2 numbers
of the Cape Town Gazette, from which
we find, that agreeable to the treaty of
peace ‘ that place had been given up by
the British to rhe Batavian Republic,*
The late Britiih governor (Francis Dun
das) on the zoth Feb. ifined his procla
mation, notifying that the reiteration
would take place the next day, and re
leasing the inhabitants from their oath of
allegiance to his Britannic M ijelty. The
Batavian troops took poflWlion of the
Castle on the evening of the 20th. and
the next morning displayed their colours.
DOMESTIC.
PHILADELPHIA, May to.
Died, at Philadelphia,May 10th, half
after it o’clock, last night, Gen. Ste
phens Thompson Mason, one of the
Senators representative of the state of
Virginia, in the Congress of the Unit
ed States. General Mason had arrived
in this city on Tuefday last for medical
affutance in a dropsical complaint; bur.
the disease had arrived at too malignant
a state to fubrnit to the (kill of the facul
ty, or the power of medicine.
It requires faculties and virtues equal
to thole which hate distinguished his ho
norable life, to render justice to the cha
racter of this man of men. In his loss
his country fuffers in common with his
family, for to both was his public and
his private life devoted. In fecial life,,
as the faithful hulband, the affedlonate.
parent, and the unchangeable friend—in
public the intrepid asserter of his coun
try’s liberties, and the principles of the.
revolution of 1776. Bleffcd by Heaven
with a*benignant and generous fpirit—
favored by education with all the endow
ments which give genius dignity ; whe
ther in the trying hour of political con
flict and perfecauon, or in the calm o£
liberty refeued from deftruAion, he ha.»
alike commanded the rcfpfcift of his adver«-
furies, and the incrcafing eftceni of his
friends.
Few men have puffed through trying
times with greater dignity and resolu
tion, and none with more Icindnefs even
to chose whom he opp Ved. His hostili
ty was not the war of malice but of a
generous patriot; h s ft rife though :it
was vigKOu!, wl3 nooie, and even when
hr cu if j 1 >l*l hi; qooM'. lr in tlse blaze
o' Vi ■’ qri :\ t M: -vt.-j , di;l f>auJL