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faring: all utilk/iw' F *“Jl v/ II ll ;-t fonnuli |
from whetted ifiacs the noil pc rrdc bu
ll reams without naming, every one mus!
perceive, the allusion is to barefaced, habi.
tu;d cbfiety.
Then*, and other immoralities, painful to
enumerate, ws have to lament arc too pre
val-nt in our country ; and if not fimely
checkc.l, will blight* our mod flouriihint:
prv,><peels; an I indeed, mud become a cord
.O-iing evil in the bed of governments: for •
judly may it he said, lucla vices to the po!i 1
ties!, as distempers to the natural body, th.*|
fflending matter not early removed, .villi
become fatal to the confutation.
T his country, emerging from the mife
**Ck of a cruel war, Est men's minds so in
flamed with yvt<’ngs, and the moil bluer fuf-j
fertngs, they could not readily tubmit to thei
sober dilates of rational governments; pro-;
fligacy and diflipation, tire nurfetings of a
camp, spread in every direction—:hcfc were,
chcrifaed by ai efflux of a mixed multi-j 1
tud;, among whom were men not of the, 1
porcfl morals. Thence the disorders and
inquietudes whip, for a long fe.jfon, dis."
t(acted the bosom of this devoted land, 1
But, Gentlemen, it is furcly high time to
look for bettetf things—.the Hccmioufncfs ;
and afflictions which grew out of the revo -1 1
lution have given place to a better temper,
with rite hiqhfd prosperity and prospects,
a free and independent people ever enjoyed.
The wild ard dissipated have retired cr be
come more fettled, and conformable to se
rial order—A few only excepted, who, 1
like demons, in nature depraved, unrufeep
♦thle cf happlnefs thernfclvcs, revile, and
gnafla their teeth at th: enjoyment of o
thers,
K, GentJemw, you juflly appreciate th*
pr.lent happy condition *f <>ur common
‘ country, you will, no doubt, both indivi
dually and generally, both by example an t
precept, in public and in private, strive t.
promote morality and good order, will di
ligemly and carefully enquire into all acts
of a noun ions evil tendency within your
county, aud agreeable to the foie an obli
gation you have taken, with fkmncfs and
deciflon render up the delinquent to be deal
with as the law directs,
BEN. SKIUNE.
.pi-fenlrntnis cf the Grand Jury, at Marc/.
Term ISO 4.
1, We prefer)! as a grievance the bad date
of the roads in general ; and that part o'
the road leading from Warrenton to Mitch
eii's Mill in particular.
2, We present as a grievance of confide
nine miguitule, the want of a road Iron
Warrenton to Dr. Wcatherby’s.
3. We present Henry Shelton for fuffer
ir.g Lucv Johnson to live on his plantation,
whihk the continues to encreafe her family,
in oar opinion, in a manner contrary u
goad morality, Aifo, William Slater and
Mary Few, for living together as man and
wife, contrary to morality and the good a
society.
4. We present it as a grievance that the :
I.iferior Court fuffered themselves abated,
and tolerated William Ear mud in infultiny
them with impunity, on the 14th of Feb.
ij.iry lafl, whilil on the Text of justice,
q. We present as a grievance, tliat no
more attention is paid the presentments o>
grand juries, of this and other counties, b\
'the proper officers of government, Aifo,
the want of th; promulgation of the Law;
and journals cf the Legislature in due time.
We return the Judge our flnccre thank*
for his afiiduity and attention to the baftnef
of the court, and aifo for his judicial charge
uc'ivered at ihe commencement of the term,
and recommend that these our prefentmenrs,
together with the judge’s Charge, be pub
lished in the Augufti Chronicle.
SAMUEL ALEXANDER, Foreman.
Nichols, Williams, Willis Perry, Worm
ly Rofc, Stephen Darden, Starling Gard
ner, JcfTc M uhews, Jelfr Baiukley, Joseph
Breed, William Smith, John Wilson, Jack
S. Dcvcnport, Henry Burnley, 1.. Wright,
Ambrofc Edmundfon, Thomas Neal, John
C, Turner, Benjamin Wheeler, Philip
Brantley, John My rick, George Cotton.
The court having taken up the present
ments of the grand jury— Ordered, That
the id and 21 be relcrcd to the inferior
court, the 3d and 4'hto th; solicitor pene
ral, and the sth to thelcgiilature, and tha:
the whole, with the judges charge, be pub
liflied agreeable to their request.
Taken front the M/nutet,
T. PERSONS, D. C.
March 20, 1 So 4.
PHILADELPHIA, May 3 i.
Arrived yederduy morning, the Ihip An
nawan, cape. Briggs, from Oporto. Cap
B. inform*, that on the 2d of April th
Britiih blga f e Apollo, having under convo
the Cork fleet, dellined for the Well-Indie*
amounting to fevenry fail, encountered
ftvere gale oif die coast of Portugal, in whie
the frigau and thirty-nine fail were loft 01
- A
A
Cape Maud?go;—the crew-of the frigate,
ibout 3CO in number, wera entirely loft.,
•lefties 100 belonging to the other wrecks,
fhs captain of the frigate and the licutenani.
in attempting to make the (bore on
the jib-boom. There was another frigate
in company which rode Out the gale.
June 2.
A gentleman who left Port-au-Prince on
he 13th ult. dates, that a few days be
fore he failed, there was a general mafia
ere of the French white inhabitants of that
place. Oat of five hundred and fixry-tw<
persons, only two were (pared j The per
sons and property of the Americans, wh(
happended to he theie, were refpe^ed;
C ipr. Wasd, of the (hip jenny, arrived
at NcW-York on WediiefcL/ lad, fro n
|3ourdeaax, informs, that immediately pre
jvious to his failing a report prevailed at that
place that Fichrgru was found llrangled it
the Temple, This intelligence was receiv
ed at Bourdcaux on the 1 nli April, in three
or four days from Pari®, and on the ijth,
the day on which cap:. W. failed, placard
were in circulation dating that Pichcgr I
had firaagled himfclf.
A Pan, paper of the 4*ll April, contains
a letter from Gen. Soult, (given out in ge
Incral orders) to the commander in chief at
Bruges, announcing that ** the Englid'.
had at length begun to execute their infer
ial project of coding upon their coad, kale
•f cotton, infected with the plague, which
hey had lent from the Levant—and tha’
ivc of these bales had been thrown into th<
Bay of Eitaples by Engiiui embarkations,
wider the proteftion of a frigate and tw;
jorvetts.”
CHARLESTON, June it.
Captain Fuller who arrived ycllcrday frou'
mrinam, brings the intelligence of the fur
ender of that iiland to a Bririlh force, uu.
ier the command of Admiral Hood and Sii
Charles Green ; the expedition confided of
me 74, two frigates and about twenty tran
porcs; it appeared cif the mouth of the ri
ver, the 26th of April. Confidcrable refill
mce was made to the landing of the Britifli
troop®, and the general opinion was, that
he Briafh would have been compelled tr
\nve receded, but from the Corruption of the
principal Dutch officers. Two forts, forr
Leyden and Jal.in.da were (termed ; the mag
<;int of tort Leyden was blown up by a Dutch
officer as loon as he found that the Britifti
had pofleffion, and a great number of both
ides perilhed, Twice the capitulations of
fered by the Dutch were refuted, and the
bird was accepted on the 7th of May; this
trpuiated that the Dutch troops should be
ent home, private property refpefted, and
'1 public (lores delivered to the captors. A
vu t of the Britiih force (ailed from Surinarr
the Betfi-y and Sally, it was believed
or Cayenne,
American and other produce had taken a
ife; dry goods were fiationary.
l<ail Sunday and ycllcrday, we experienc
'd the warmed weather that has been ir.
fihnrldton, since the year 1799. Karen,
"leii’s thermometer, kept by a medical gen
leman in this city, for the Medical Socie
>’» flood both days 91 degrees, in the
hade.
MJi hetaes.— An ingenious citizen of rhif
Borough has furnilhed the editor of the Mir.
or with the following (Imple remedy for tfu
torment and inconvenience occafioncd by
hose little dillurbcrs of our repose, the mos
hetoes:—
Take a common table fpoonful of spirit:
<i turpentine and throw it into your watei
loglhcads, and in every other place when
■ here is (lagnated water, (about the farm
proportion for a larger lurfacc) repeat it even
ive or fix days, and it will tlFcClualiy pre.
vent their propagation.
He remark®, that it would be uftiefs tr
urge the utility and even (he needlirv of gi /.
og this experiment a fair trial, to those who
‘or one or two fcafons pall, particularly the*
lad, have felt all the painful cmbarraflhientf
nf thole t rouble some inmates.
He Hates the opinion that they arc mostly
-ircd in mar (lies to be erroneous and fays,
tkat the number bred there is small in pro ,
portion to thofc bred in water hogiheads
&c. He informs us that he has fecn Iron
eight to ten thousand in a single hogflicad.
1 hay take wing in about 48 hours alter tht
<-gg is deposited, and give place to as many
-note. Ihe period ot their breeding is alxnr
ten weeks. Allowing that there are 20c
r eceptacles in this town in which mofehetee
‘ireed, and this is a very moderate allowance,
t results that 70,000,000 would be produ
-ed in one fier.lor, winch is about 1 4,000 to
aca inlubitan;!— &:l, Del, pafet»
“ Abftalntng from the (word, in cases o’
nlalt, is as unwise in a nation, as recurring
■) it is unwarrantable in an individual.’
1 his doclrinc is laid down in the Qkarlejim
■ ,uner, a llandard federal print. It isjul'
he language of a barbarian pirate, who a.
•ides by no treaties, who holds nonegotia
ions, and who acknowledges nc» rme cl
ighc or wrong. But it is a lingular dogm:
, in political mhlallr/ (hut what is unwarrant-|l
iLIe in an individual (hould be wife in a
, tlun. And on this particular relation it ap- j'
i, pears to be a principle of modern date. The i
; Bntijh Carpenter who writes in the Cornier i
r did not maintain this murderous do&rine in i
/ 794- It was then said. Negotiate before i
you tight ! Do any thing to avert war! i
i But now they fay light firft, and negotiate j
afterwards. And why ? Because in 1794.“
our quarrel was with the Britifli, but now -
it is with the Spanilh and French.
One of the most inf dent and unprincipled
ilanderers that inlefts this or any other coun-■
cry is an Englishman of the ailiimed name of <
Carpettier , who writes for the ChariJion>
Quarter, One of his 3aft papers contains an
ordinary article in abuse ut democracy the
jovernment of our country, which, he j
fays, “sets out with pernicious folly, ftum-|’
hies at the thrdhold, continues to blunder ji
and (tumble in a headlong effort tiil it.'
knocks its own brains out againfl an oppo->
ate wall, and does much mifchlef to it felt/
and all it gomes in contact wiih— look to
| Pennfylvauia,” Are the citizens of this
country willing to hear the institutions on 1
.which their political happiness depend, in-<
.□lttd and derided in this manner by a Brit- _
i(h hireling J Wc repeat, “ Look to Penn-<
ylvania," to demirratical Pennfylvania, ! i
n.d observe the morals, the virtue and the (
prosperity of its inhabitants—then look to!
Great-Britain, and view the blessings oh'
morality and arljiocracy combined—the head 1
null sicken, the heart muff faint at the
companion.
This Kritifh emissary, too, not content,!
vith oppoftng and contemning the inltitu- 1
ions and administration of our country,
. fecks to embroil it with a foreign friendly
, power, by continually venting his national
. and implacable litfred againlt the French.
1 Speaking of the government of thar nation
f he calls them ‘Bonaparte, Tallien, Talley-,
rand, and the few regicides whom theju-,
. dice and mercy of God has not swept off by
. violent and horrible deaths.* Has this in- 1
t famous libeller forgotten that his lavorite
t government will not fuffer publications of
this kind in London ? On the trial of Pci-[
. tier the dcftrineS on this fubjeft were am
r ply laid down from the royal authority.!
And that such libels and Handers against
■> foreign nations (hould not be tolerated in
:i cliis country, we might infer from the opi
■j nions of the anglo-federal party in the U
. lited States, who condemn the reading of
; the declaration of independence, in which
s the king of England is called a tyrant, on;
: the ground of the injustice and impolicy of
j exciting animosity and revenge in foreign
i laiions with whom we are upon friendly,
terms, by recurring to part quarrels and
} charging its government with crimes and
villanies. But‘that class of men who are
- employed in endeavoring to “write down*’j
the administration, governed by no princi-j
pies and bound by no law’s, equally difre
, gard the doctrines heretofore profeffed by
rhemfelves or others, when clafliing with*
their present nefarious designs. If such vi.j
olators of decency and disturbers of peace
Hioukl be dealt with according to the ufa
»es of their mother kingdom, instead of a.
Dufmg the advantage of oor mild and equi
table laws, out of their own mouths would
they be condemned. [ Bee,
Since the year VII (jSoo) a plot has ex
fted to deliver Brsft to the English. A
pcifon named Revoire, an old officer of ma.
, ine, was prevented trom being the author
of this plot. The accumulating proofs a
i gain# him were of great evidence. At the
noise of the conspiracy which has just mif
carricd, he has written to the Grand Judge’
a letter, in which, he not only confeffes 1
his crime, but even admits, that he had a'
. knowledge of the 3d Nivofe.
[ Peris Paper.
J i
AUGUSTA, June 23.
, The British minister niuft he at a great
loss for able jubjeSs , vvh<n ht is compelled
to employ AJfnJ/tns in France, and Black -.
guards in America, to cod bat Republican
. itm. It is true, howeveA, the vilji and
‘ noji abandoned only could he found—Haves
who cannot live without a niajier , founder
ake such infamous and base plaftices. The
- knights of the ?oignard already met
vith their deserts in Europe, the time
, will come, when those of the <?»/// in this
- country, will (hare the fate of brother
3 Porcupine . \
/ * ' V
To fanflion a libel on {he Democracy of
■ America and the Administration,
[ ern agents place Ho/ea at the head UHtheir
columns! this (hews what ref pea pious
t men have for Divine Revelation, vwien
;hey profane and profiitute it to such \jh
■ purpojts I . A
*.. “ w can keep our /addles hut foi&
-.little while, (not expecting to keep ihdr.
|lor>£, it Teems) fays the I.JI He,aid, an-,
'dcipate the plerfure, Sec. 3 " We were aL
jways cf opinion that this forty hack vv I
not only saddled and mounted, but 1 •
held a bit in his mouth also; and now v\ -
take his own words for it—nay, he weais
more than one saddle at a time, which con.
firms the report that he is mes mferal.']
ridden through his weekly course , by 0 t -
Scotch and two lr : jh Jockeys /if f 0) t h e s e
blades of the turf will fcon knock up :| ;e
New-England lackey : for, during the J a ft
week, he appears to be .completely broke*,
winded. The Herald will never do for an
did fox-hunter, though he Hiouid even he
b’Jindtd by a young Fox,
To the many corporal works cf mere"
jprafticed in Augusta, a Cone/pcndent
■would recommend to add the do ailing of
jihe naked, as several, of both Jrxes , if not
d° their own Jhame, at least to the disgrace
of their parents and friend-., appear lately
in our streets, in purls natural-bus.
John M'Donald, lately employed in car.
tying the Mail between Camden and Fay.
ettevillc, N. C. has been committed to the i
jail of me former place, on the izdiindam, ( |
on suspicion of having robbed the mail about
ihe 21 ft day of last Januaiy, of bills to a
conliderable amount—Upwards of flccta
hundred dollars iu bank notes and fiver,
vttic found in his trunk, after he was ar
rellcd.
_ The Ex-Judge Bowmen, has been lately
liberated from jail, in Savannah. He is
'gene to Rhode-Ifland, his native place.
INTERESTING STATS NEWS.
The Board of commidioners appointed hy
the General Aflembly of this Stnxe'to dcfig
naie the most eligible place, at or near the
head of navigation, on she. fouth fide of the
Oconee River (in the Territory lately ac.
quired from the Creek Nation) for the ftte cf
'a town to be called and known by the name
of MILLEDGEVILLE ; having met at
Grecnelborough on the 3d inst, and viewed
she most eligible places in that vicinity
Adjourned.
\ They again met on Monday last the nth
infant at Fort-Wilkinson pursuant roan
Executive notification, «nd after making
choice ot a Secretary and Surveyor they pro!
cecdcd to view the sites near thereto, and
after the most mature examination unanimous*
ly agreed to set apart, for that purpose, a
traft of Land containing 3240 acres, com
mencing immediately below the Ferry at
Fort-Wilkinson, and running in a direction
|to include the Fort, the Buildings adjacent
; and Hawkins’s Spring; and" from
ithenceto the Oconee River, so as to contain
■the aforefaid quantity of acres,
I The Secretary of the Bpatd, agreeably to
'their order waited on the command, nt of the
Fort { Captain Swain) with a certified copy
of their proceedings, who had them read to
the troops en parade, and ‘immediately fuc
reeded by * feu de jote of 28 gun»—- Caps.
Swain’s polite attention to the Cpinnvffion
ers and Citizens afiernbled on this eccafion,
commands our high approbation and worm
eft ackowledgements.
It is understood that thcCommifironfrs ars
to convene again in September next, to lay
oiF the laid Town into Lets, in order that
a p;an thereof may be laid before the next
General Ali'embly.
[Farmer’s Gazette.
Athens, Saturdqy, June 2, 1804.
CN Wcdnefdiy last a Board of the Tnu
,ftees of the University of the State met in
this piace, and, at ncor, attended, with a
large number cf citizens, to hear a fermea
addrefled, by appointment, by the Rev.
[Robert M. Cunningham, to the candidates'
for degrees.
| la this difcomTe the most important mo
ral and religious duties were ably pointed
out, and the observance and fulfilment of
them strongly and firmly recommended and
, enforced. Fhe Beard have ordered this
i Discourse to be printed and publilhed.
( eveni «g *be board attended ths
.iCxerciies cf the junior Students irr Public
[Speaking, aad exprefied their approbation
i of their performances.
| On Thursday, the day of our firft Cora
nmencement, a Froceftioa was farmed under
[the direction of the Sheriff of the county,
■jand proceeded from the College to a Stage
■ |Under a spacious Arbour, in the following
order, viz.—The Freffcman, Sophomore*
and Junicr Claftes, followed hy the candi
dates, the executive authdrity of the Uni
■ verity, the members of the Board of Tru
ftce»y confiding cf his Excellency Govern*
• or Millcdge, Gen. Clarke, Rev. Mr. Cuo.
1 n,n S ham i Col. O’Neal, Gea. Stewart, Gen.
1 Mitchell, Rev. Mr. Martha!!, Rev. Mr.
Hun and Col. Carnes, Several members of
he Board of Visitors, and other rcipecla
blc citizens.
After Sacred Mode, with Prayer,. by ths
i&ev. Mr. Marshall, the academic exercife*