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• ttitferatUns u ban the hale of Public Affairs.
A PAMPHLET under the above title has lately met
the public eye. This production, highly creditable
to the abilities cf the author, to the pen ot
Lord Auckland.
After descanting at fome length tin the want of energy
which the French nation has dlfpbyed on every g rea £
cafion, the author proceeds to a(k, “ How it is possible,
from so pailive a difpofitien, and from a nation fii broken
and enervated, to expett a civil war. It is not only con
tradi&orv (fays he) to our experience of what they have
endured, but to all just reasoning and combination of the
future. In my opinion there are wanting the feeds and
principles of a civil war. All the enemies of revolt and
nifurrection are in the hands of the usurper; and tin the
people there is neither desire of freedom nor aCfive feme of
oppreflion. The new fanaticifm of Liberty is extiiuft, and
buried in the fame tomb where tlie zeal and antique faith
pf Loyalty repoft*. The Monarchy had its 10th of August,
the Republic has had its 4th of September. If the 1 hrotie
could fall without a civil war why may not the Republic?
If the destruction of the moft revered and ancient eftablifh
mehts could collect no votaries, and arm no party, why
should these novel fancies and unprofitable forms? I a/k
why, even if the people were the fame? How much the
kfs, then, when the people is effete and dull, desirous of
nothing but repose, obedient to every.ypke, and indifferent
fyftem? The ruins of tbeCowkurion still remain;
but the winds whittle in them, and they are only a (belter
for banditti; yet who attacks them? The Government
holds by occupancy, not by title; yet who claims against
it? It rules by will, without pretence of law; yet the people
cling to it; it seems fbmethjng still, because it is tranquil
lity, a calm and passive state, flattering to the indolence
and torpidity of their fouls. What does not the memory
of past evil render tolerable to mankind? What Govern
ments will not the experience of anarchy and revolution
fivet on their neck? Civil wars, I think, require not only
energy, but principle in a people; they mutt revere their
caule, their leader, and themselves; they mud feel the
justice of tlieir quarrel; they must desire one known acknow
ledged end or remedy. The rest is the plot of a seraglio,
Or the revolt of a mob. What energy, what principle do
we discover in this degraded people? Do we think this
people will now take up arms for the freedom of an electi
on, or the violation of an article in a Constitution scarcely
two years old? That they will fight for Pichegru and Bar
ihelemy, who would not draw a sword for the Capets or the
Bourbons; or defend tire gospel of the Constitution, who
have betrayed and abjured the religion of their forefathers?
Let us rather go back again to our aftignats, or .resume our
march to Paris; they are fafer follies than those confident
theories of our enemies calamities and crimes.
“ I think there is but one fafe and honorable way of
tonfidering the state of the French at this period, namely,
as potteffing the moft powerful empire in Europe, placed
Dnder the control of the moft despotic government* I be-
Jiold this government wielding the whole physical means
and power of the nation without mora restraint or limit—■
employing the whole resource andpqpulatipn pf their coun
try, without obffecle or embarraffmeiit from any law, pri
vilege, custom, or immunity, without any scruple of tneir
own mind, or fear from the spirit of liberty in the public
mind. In their conquests they are still more (if more is
pofiible) uncontrolled, unfcrupuloUs, and absolute. The
whole universal power and produce of the old and new ter
ritory, the growth of every field, and the labor of every
arm, is placed at the diferetion and arbitrament of this re
morCelefs sovereign. Whatever moves or grows upon the
whole furface ot his dominion is his army or his magazine*
Whatever is is his. What he leaves is benevolence*—
what he Ipares is generality—his half .terror is moderation
—his imprisonments, humanity—hij transportations, ten
cemefs ol blood* Whatever he abstains from is his praise
—every thing (hort ot its extreme, his merit—every thing
Hot worst, his goodness. His commands to the Councils
are his love of liberty—the third part of which he has not
deprived the public creditor is his respect for property. The
Redadeur is his freedom of the press—he is judged nega
tively, and whatever remains unperpetrated of tyranny or
avarice is enjoyed by the people as his virtue of his gift.’*
Speaking of thl Forced Loan in France, and the Invafioil
of England, the author observes: “ The iubfoription for
tlie ennqueft of England, and the loan secured upon that
event, can never fill but under fome mode of application
ot the principle ot terror. It may be called enthusiasm of
revenge, but it is nothing but a diredt tax imposed by ter
ror, and paid by prudence’ and fear. The proprietor
throughout the world is upon our fide, even the present or
er o proprietors in France do not desire our min. The
merchants, as they are still called, whole warehouses were
plundered in every commune of die republic on. the 4th of
January, cannot desire it.* The ih France, as
veil as in every comer of the empire, put forth their feeble
cries for peace, and desire the (lability of a government
.without which the very name of property must before this
, mve forgotten. They turn their eyes,
with hope and coufolatton,- to this mighty Power, the'ark
citadel of the civilized world, tlie last asylum of law
on J er ’ an . d th , e tem pfe of justice and religion. It is
ferra alone that they perceive tlie sacred foe bum bright
tT P r re ’ Z r d { r° m hence thc y look for the
for a moment that the conquest of these
KLn mg tTf WaS the objea of their ambition, or a
th^‘ r avanc G the 7 know our state is yet un
a , ey fee P' reef a s ainft the coming storm. They
wh - m .?' nrun £ of reduction and economy, which,
(o k- , as ,L must be, and perfected as they ought
RiDir*> W™* t^lC fortrefs and rampart of our
fear- anl ti ey kn ” w ) ve lb a ke only with the merchants
Kh al ° ne an J Peace* all-is to be
•Ur 11,6 W s the present delpotifm of France.”
ff r ‘ a °V “> ,b ‘ C <*~ /
[* persons indebted to the
I lnte ‘ 4 hereof arc requeued to make payment.
GEOR G 1“ Ai ’•>
By His Excellency JAMES JACKSON,
Governor and Commander in Chief of tlie Army and
Navy of this State, and of the Militia thereof,
A P R O C LAM A T IO N.
WHEREdS I have received information from the
Mayor of the City of Savannah that certain Ne
groes or people of color are shipped off fronj Port an Prince,
in the Weft Indies, for the ports of South Carolina and
Georgia, and many of them are on board velfels bound tli
redtly to Savannah: ANQ WHEREAS policy dilates
that persons of color, ufodto the horrid feenes of niaftacre
which of late years have been lb bafbaroullv pradtiied in
the Weft Indies, without refpedl to age or fox, should be
prevented from coming within the limits of this state, td
diffufe their seditious and cruel tenets, and the act
“ An A (ft to organize tlie Militia in the several NevV
Counties of this State,” makes it the duty of the Officers
of Militia in the firft Brigade of the firft Division, in their
refpedtive dirtiicts, to apprehend any Negro, Muftee, Mu
latto freeman or freemen, /lave or (laves, who flmll here
after arrive in any port of this state from the Weft India
or Bahama Islands, and to keep fucli persons in fafe custody
until they can be examined‘before the Corporation of Sa
vannah, or any three Jhftiees of the Peace for. any county
in the said division, jVho to cause fucli per
sons ld.be exported Rt the thence of the importcr or own
er, who are allb made liable for the expence of appro bending
them: Taking the fame therefore, and the situation of the
present state of public affaiis, and our local concerns, into
my moft feriblis deliberation, I HAVE THOUGHT
FIT to issue this my proclamation, hereby charging and
requiring all Officers, Civil and Military, to be adtive and
vigilant, within their refpedtive diftridts, in preventing and
opposing any of the people of color, described by the afore
faid law, patted the twenty-second day of February, one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-fix, from landing within
any port or place within this state; and in case of such
landing, that the Militia of the diftfict where such landing
may be, and those of any •other difti ict into which such
perlbns may come, do immediately purine and apprehend
them, and all of them, in order that they may be exported
agreeably to law: And I further charge and require the
different Magistrates of diftriefts, and Captains of compa
nies, to be vigilant and active in having tlie Patrol Law
fully enforced, without any excufe.whatever, as they will
answer the contrary at their peril: And I call on all classes
of citizens to come forward with chcerfulnefs and perform
those duties which the situation of public and domettic af
fairs requires of them: And lalfo further charge and require
all Odicers, Civil and Military, to be vigilant in appre
hending and exporting all. and every other Negro, Muftee,
Mulatto freeman or freemen, (lave or Haves, who has or
may have come within the limits of this state, under the
defeription aforefaid, since die patting of the afore-menti
oned law of the twenty-second of February, one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-fix, in any.manner of” way what
ever; and to kfiep a watchful eye over all and every suspi
cious Have or (laves, free Negroes or'MtrfattoeS, although
not within the defeription of the said lav?.
GIVEN under my hand, and the great feat of the
said state, at the State House in Louifvitle, this
eleventh day of June, in the year one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-eight, and in the
twenty-second year of tiie Independence of tlie
United States of America*
JAMES JACKSON.
By the Governor, *
JOHN MILTON, Sec‘rv.
GOD SAVE iHE STATE.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT^
Louisville, Juke. tlie 6th, 1798.
Ordered,
THAT the General Orders of the 29th ultimo be pub
lifiied in the Gazettes of Savannah and Augusta.
Attefi. THOMAS JOHNSON, Sec. £. D.
Headquarters , Loulfvilh , May 29 tb, *798.
L O R D E R S.
IT is recommended to tl:e lirigadiers of tlie l'cfpeiftive
Brigades to permit a troop of borfe to be railed in every
county within their commands w hose numbers will polfibly
admit of it. ‘
The refpeiftive troops of hoffe already commiftioned are
required to equip themselves completely both with rel’ped. to
horses and accoutrements, and to hold themselves in readi
nels to take the field at the Ihorteft notice.
The Gommanding Olficers of regiments and battalions
in the firft Brigade of the firft djviliou will attend to the
difeipline and equipment of their officers, and men, and
hold themselves in readinfefs to defend the coast, in case of
invasion from any enemy; and,.in case pf aiftual invation,
the officer commanding where the invasion takes place will
dispatch an immediate tlie Gommanckr in chief,
and to the Commander of the Brigade, for orders, and in
the mean time resist the enemy with all his force. The
Chatham Artillery will not leave the City of Savannah
without orders from tlie Commander in chief, except in
Jinall detachments for the river Savannah or Thunderbolt
river, or Augustine’s creek, for the defence of the city.
The Commander of the Brigade,'hi case of aiftual invasion,
will, until the orders of the Commander in chief reaches
him, march, if he thinks proper, any part of the remainder
of the Brigade to any place or port within the fame.
The Commanding Officer of the second Brigade of the
firft division will hold his brigade in readiness to support
the firft brigade on the (horteft notice. ?
The other General and Field Officers are required to at
tend to the difeipline of their refjieftive commands, and be
prepared to defend their country against any attack which,
although the Commander in chief is in strong hopes will not
take place, it behove? all ranks of citizens to guard against
any hostile approach.
-By order of the Commander in chief.
THOMAS JOHNSON, Sec. E. D.
K7° BLANK LAND CONVEYANCES for sale at
the Printing Office in Bisughtea street.
STORY
A JOVIAL fellow full of Ijxmk,
The other day, by chance, got drunk;—
His friend, who was a knowing nony,
Wifli’d to convert hini mto moneyj
So putting him into a lack, • t.
He carrie l him upon his back
Unto a surgeon of great fame,
And for two guineas fold the lame* -
The bargain dos’d; the cOrpfe began
To groan, just like a living man!
“ Hoi” cries the surgeon, What is here?
“ The Dead is now alive, 1 fear!”
“ It is no matter,” said the Vendviry
“ You buy the body that I render,
“ And therefore sot your fnind at ease,
“ For you can kill him when you pleftfe.”
C 0 M F 0 Z T.
A GENTLEMAN whole lady produced a fine bov fijS
months after marriage applied to a phyiician to account for
this expedition. “ Make J ourfelf easy,” aniwered the
Do£ur, “ this- ltappen? tnr the case of the fir A
• child, but ‘neverafterwards*’
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A M QHAUSF Itl TE !
SOME persons relating 10 eich other the ittanv woh
derfitl objects they had seen in the cotirfe of their travels,
one of them asserted that he had Teen in Africa fome gnfs
growing that was as high as a hoiife, and appealed to his
companion for the truth-.of his ftory} this his companioa
made no hefitatioii in Confirming, and declared, that in
the very fame field where this grids grew, after having
walked fome time be fat dmvn to rest himfelf, and in courfo
<? f >; few minutes found himfelf rgifed 30 feet from the
ground, in coniequqnce of having fat ujion a rnuftiroointhat’
was growing!!! ‘ . r i , 5 v -_, . .
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■ -.rtkA repetition for Foreciofure*
Robelrt H. jl^Ga£S.jj ; l , .n
UPON the petition of james Bmer fen. pravmg tbc ;
foreclofure bf tlie equity of redemption of-all those
two trads of land, containing five hundred acres, more vt
less, viz. one trad of four hundred acres, including tlie
improvements of James Bruer junior; the other trad of
one hundred acres, including the dwelling of other improve*-
merits ol the said Bruer lenior; the four hundred
acre trad originally granted to James Bruer feh. and the
other trad of one huridfe'd acres originally granted toAVil-
Ham Crawford; moregaged to the said James Bruer. ferw
for the fecttrity of a turn of money .in the said mortgage
mentioned; and bn‘motion, of Mr.,Cuvier, Gounfel for the
petitioner; it is ordered , That the principal, intere'ft, and
colb, upon the laid. mqrtgagg, .bq fiji'id.intoCourt, or the
t(qiitty of redemption lie from thenceforth forer.lofed: An£
it is further ordered. That this rule be publiffied in the
Gazettes of this state, xvf on the mortgager or hi*
Attorney, at leaf! nine mouths previous to the time of the
money being paid into Court *s aforefaid.
ExtraH of the Minutes,
... ■ Joh> G. t. *. c* £. c*
May if, 1793. . “
John ShoolbredJ T TPON the petition of Jolaf Shool
verfus . > bred, praying the foreciofure of
Isaac Delvon. J the equity pf redemption of all that
Trad of Land, containing fifty aerbs situate and being iit
the county of Chatham, bounded erifl by land of John Rut
ledge, weft by the northwest road, north by laud of Alex*
ander Brown, and fortth by land late George Kincaid's,
which laid trad of land was late the property of William
Wylly junior; and also all those two Lots of Land, situ
ate and being at Vernonburgh, in the county of Chatham,
and known by the No. 3 find 4, late the property of John
Jameifon; mortgaged by Isaac Delyon, late of Savannah,
to tiie laid John Shoolbred, for the security of a sum of
money contained in a bond from the said liaac Delyon to
the said John Shoolbred, -bearing date the firft day of
March foventeen hundred and eighty-four; and on motion
of Mr. Bulloch, Attorney for the plaintiff; it is ordered,
That the principal, iutereft, and costs, tipon die said bond
and mortgage, be paid into Court within twelve month*
from this day, and, uiftefe the fame Hull be so paid, tlie
equity of redemption .- will be from thenceforth foreelofed.
and other proceedings, take place, purfuarit to tlie Act of
Assembly in fucb case made and patted the 9th day of De
cember,’ 1790. . r ,.r* ‘ ‘’ ’
And it is further ordered* in pursuance of the said aft.
That this rule be piiblifhed in'one of the public Gazettes of
this state, or fcrved on Isaac Delyon, or his Attorney, at
least nine months previous to the time by which tlie money
is directed to be paid as aforefakL
Extraß from the Minutes ,
James Bulloch, e. s. ts. t. C•
ON tbe petition of Thomas Stone, dating, that lie was
poffttted of a certain hondrfigned William Harden,
of South Carolina, for the sum. of sixteen hundred pounds,
condition for the payment'of the sum of eight hundred
pounds, hearing date on or about the thirteenth day of June,
one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, a copy whereof,
as nearly as the petitioner could recoliefl, was annexed to
the said petition, and lodged in the Clerk's office, together
with an affidavit, pursuant to the aft of Assembly in that
case made and provided; that the said bond was loft or
deftroyed} and praying the benefit intended by said a& ;
It is ordered, That, on other circumstantial proof being
laid before the Court, the said bond be eftabliffied as di*
retied by tlie said as, the said Thomas Stone pifblifhing a
notice as therein required, apd for the space of fix months,
in one of the Gazettes of this state, unless cause lhall be‘ ;
ftiewn to the contrary within the fakl fix months, or other
matter fliall appear to the Court against the fame.
Jacob Wood, Attorney for Petitioner.
ExtraS from tit Minutes of the Superior Court, M'ln*
t'ffh County, istb September, 1797.
Johx Bailue, c. s. c. c. h‘U