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■, r n vain, ‘ln hi”4Ctbty Set its n ----v-r,’ thing that was valuable, and turned out Be canltal as a wandering beggar, at the age of 80, a fc!e ‘ o!i man, and one fi>r whom the French nation, ®li as the majority of the people of this country, had Ba very nigh veneration? How have they treated the Bricans, with whom they were in Aria alliance? They B contrary to the faith of nations, detained in their B under various frivolous pretences, above 260 of their B; j3 ut? above all, has not their conquest of Switzerland W them infamous in the eyes of all Europe? Being in B alliance with them, and a republic glorying in liberty Bcualitv, but Rill more in a faithful adherence to their Bes at all times, have they not, I fay, been plundered Be French of every thing they pofleffed, even that fe- B “quics et nefeia filler e vita, which they fondly hop- Be lunation of their country, joined to their irreproach ■ conduct, would have secured to them? To this perfi ■s nation our wretched and deluded countrymen are Bht to look up for afliftance by their cruel and artful I fmcerely hope they will now Tee their error, ■f lV to embrace that mercy which our beloved sovereign I offers to them. I thought it my duty, my Lords, to Rhus much; and though I feel, my Lords, I have fome- K trefpafLd 011 the indulgence of the House, yet I am Reed to hope you will forgive it on account of the mo- R that led to it. R, Timothy Pickering, Elq. Secretary of State) to BfoBNSON*, £%• of Prince Edward county, Virginia. B, * Trenton, September 29, 1798. KAVE received your letter of the 21st of August, B°vering a paper without a lignature, purporting to be Bdrefs freeliolders of Prince Edward county, Bo Rate of Virginia, to the President of the United Bs, to whom, you inform me, it was their request that BuH present it. Wdrelh s to the President, being personal to him, and Buuuefted with any of die fubo.rdinate departments of Bovermftent, it is not necessary that they fliould pass Bgb. my oriice, and perhaps not one in twenty has come R- hands. Hitherto, however, I have forwarded alt, B exu.pted, which I have received; and the address ■ Prince Edward county would not have formed an ex- Ron. if the reipecl for the President of the United States, ■fieri in the beginning, had appeared in the progress of Ruditis. But conceiving it not to be any. part of my Rri duty to forward addrefies, I will not volunteer in Ratting one which is calculated to insult the Chief Rifb-ate of my country. Such addrelfers inuft clioofe R other medium of conveyance. ■ie f.-eeholders of Prince Edward county profefs, that Rot their design to approach the Chief Magifirate of the Reel State ; without relbecl; and yet they call his digni- Rrefolve “ never to fend another Minifier to France, Rout atTurances that he would be received, refpedfed, and Rrc.l, a> the Repieitentative of a great, free, powerful, Rnriependent nation,” a r-Gh resolution! and they in- the majority of the Members of each House ■n.-. ’V, and the-Prefident,Tor concurring iiricertain Reir p ibiicarits, have a deiign to overthrow the rights, ■o defiroy the liberties of the people cf the United ■:-.! As I know the integrity and genuine patriotism R great and leading cluratlers by whom the formation Rdoption of thole acts were accomplaited, I hesitate § that infmuation a calumny, and in which I fliould B I participated, if I gave it a paflage to the President. Befire, Sir, I return to you the address of the free- B r3 Prince Edward county, that, if they fiiall finally B">v to inlult the President and Congress, by persist- B offer the address, they may commit it to feme person B capable of dsbafing himfelf by preTenting it. B r T Sir, 1 might close this letter; but the liberty mc l and used by the freeholders of Prince Edward of examining the proceedings of the President and ire’s, a claim which, while exercised with decency, B l ‘t infillt to the constituted authorities, arid without a B or tendency to excite difcoiitents and disobedience B R.ws of cur country, will never be questioned, I B” n . v n,e;l by me in examining the public proceed- Bcf civ fellow citizens. B‘ c freeholders of Prince Edward county fay, 11 obedi- Bf° rlx laws, an 1 attachment to the government tfiab- B by the choice of our country, we efieem as the prim- Butxs (•.. good citizens.” But is the calumnious infi- B ,;n a ' novc noticed confifrent with this declaration? B. alfj that certain acts of Congress arc “ flagrant B tio: ‘ S of . tlw: fu ? reme of OUr coiinTryh’ Is V,.ii Br* 5 Is . this :! P r, ’P ?r wa - v to ,nan ‘fefl their fenfc of th.e m °f citizens, “ obedience to the laws, Bttachment to the g< vernment of their country’s choice? c0....a , do nut inch declarations tend to excite frwttJKv to ::ie laws, hatred to the government, iufui*- ■on and revolt? _____ Rhe freeholders of Prince Toward county atk, “ Casi B . VA Matter ourselves, that the ftrengtlf of B™* deititu'.e as lh.e is oi the means of attacking a Rn: enemy,Trtompcteht tcTOTe great feheme of humbl ■ toe haughtnrds and tire power of France, or of coni ■"g ner to a cpmpenlation for injuries which has been m-e ill vain by negotiation?*’ Allow me to alk, in rrty 1” * hom che United States has proposed this fcTiemt ? *0 ..as declared or intimated that the object of our Go- R**"*P?'’ P^p 3l iug 3n army and flips of war, was to B ni,) L tne haughtiness and the power of France?” Who ■ ‘rgea any other motives for thnf e measures than these: ■prevent that *• haugiitinefs” anu that “ power” f-om try from trampling on our necks; from ■ * “'o ol,r commerce; from levying diicretlon |.cu.v, from eruffling us with an ignominious ■A a tr 'ri lUe to mcafured only by her wants and our ■iijj to P a > ; iroia fubjecVing us, as {he has done Ij-'U ‘ Switzerland, and other republics, and while, ’ n T‘-ent!y boasting of giving them liberty, EhV'"V : - . - a I * ronr es r the bayonets cf her R t V try fenxiious generals and insolent minifl- R . ‘ ;■■ -r.inients of her tyranny in thole wretched R partly by force, and partly bv her “ di m been reduced under her control; and b' r inricting on us, what flie has threat- ‘ ‘ Hi durable tare cf Venice, that is, to be -'f ana ;:lu, cur perform, with our cavj# nnd other to-the European powm w*th whom France could make tlie moll profitable bargain for hcrfelf! It is true, that “ coinpenfation for pafl injuries has been fought in vain by negotiation;” but, so detirous was tlie Government of the United States to eflbdl A reconciliation with France, tlie Envoys were inftrufiled not to infill on compchfation, or even a {lipiflatiou that coirtpenfation fliould ever be made; they were only, after prefling them in vain, not to abandon our just claims of yetribution for the many millions of which her iniquitous raters had caused our citizens to be plundered; a hope was entertained that a sense of juflice might hereafter return, apd, concurring with national policy, restore to our fellow citizens their honed dues. But the freeholder? ot Prince xdward county know, or ought to know, for the docurrieiits lutVe been pub liflied, before they ceniure their own Govetnment, that, indead of making, or fliptilating 1 to make such Compensati on, the French Government made their owh unfulfilled contracts, and the monstrous depredations they had com mitted, and would continue to commit on our commerce, the measure of their demands of tribute! anti although the United States had borne a theuland inl'ults and injuries frorri that “ haughty” power, and had repeatedly fought, and were then, by the solemn and extraordinary million of three Envoys, refpcflfully and earnestly seeking a perfect reconciliation, yet tliofe Envoys were not received! they could not obtain permiflioo to fee the Directory, without previously fiipulatihg to bind the United States in ignomi nious chains as tributaries! tributaries to a Government which, regardlefa of jullice, makes the extent of its power the only rifle of its conduct! And vet the addreflers, free holders of Prince Edward county, so tremblhlgly alive left their rights and liberties fliould be touched by an act of their own Government, are not Fatiated with the conccfli ons which have been made to France, with the pafl facrifice of To many millions of the property of their commercial fellow citizens, and of the rights and dignity of their coun try! they still “ entreat” the President tofubinit to further indignities, to make new overtures, and “ to* adopt feme fpetdy and effectual plan for conciliating the differences between tlfe two republics!” (The rcmdindir in our next•) Alatamuhti and Oconee LOTTERY. GEORGIA. WHEREAS, by an aril of tlie Legifiattir£ cf this slate, pafled at LouilViUe the 3d of February,’ 1798, tlie fubferibers are empowered toeflablifli a Lotterv, for the purpose of railing the sum of three thousand doL lars, to be appropriated to clear and improve the Naviga tion of the Alatamaha and Oconee Rivers, in confequcncc thereof they propose the following S CHE --M E. 5 prizes of icoo dollars each Is dollarsi 10 of 500 do. do. 5000 1 of 250 clo. to be paid to the poffeiTor of the ticket of the firft drawn number, a<d { of 250 do. to be paid to the pofi'dTbr of the ticket of tlie lad drawn number* ’ Jo of ico do. each is . 1000 c.o of 50 do. do. . ioco 40 of 25 do. do. . icoo 650 of 16 do. do; * bjoo 737 prizes. 20000 dollars. 3263 blanks. 4000 tickets, at r dollars each, is 20000 dollars. The Lottery will be drawn at Lonif/ille in January, ’799) during the fitting of the next Legislature. All prizes will be paid within ten days after the drawing is com pleted, fubjerit to a dedurilion of 15 per cent. Prizes not called for within fix months after drawn to be considered as donations for the purposes of the Lottery. The number of high prizes holds out to adventurers the greatest nrofperit of fuc.cefe; but, independent of gain, tlie Coinmiffionefs flatter themfclves that they will meet with support from the inhabitants of thole counties immediately concerned in that navigation; and they lire happy to acknow ledge that they have received the moil liberal atTuranee of the support from many reljx-rilable citizens both in SavanV hail and Anguila td forward th.e fide of tickets* Upon the whole, they have not the final left doubt that all the tickets will be Ibid, and the drawing positively take place at the time appointed* Tickets to be had from any of the Com miiftoners, and aifo at tlie places hereafter named of the following persons, via. At Savannah, of Meitrs. Robert and John Bolton, Meins and Mackay, M‘Ca!! and Miller, John I). Dickinson, and William Belcher. At Angufta, of David Reid and Andrew Inner. At Louisville, of John Berrien. At North Newport,- of Lanchefter. At Sunbtiry, of Adam Alexander. At St. Mary’s, of Archi bald Bulloch* In Greene county, of Robert Grier and George Reed. In Hancock county, of Charles Abercrom bie and David Dixon. In Wafliington county, of John Rutlierfuid and Edward Bryan. JoXATIIAX FaBI/.X,- John Couper, 1 — T jJ Ferdinand O’Neal, g Spencer Wilson, David BlacksßEaß, | John Jones, o Samuel WsighF, 1 -J ~F O R SALE, . A TRACT OF LAND on New River Neck, con taining about 900 acres. This land is well adapted to the culture of cotton anti rice, being part swamp, pine, oak, and hickory land, and open to Tybee Lighthouse; upwards cf 200 acres of it high frefti marffi, ealy to dam in. There are convenient bluff landings on the river from 12 to 14 feet depth of water, and altogether lies very con venient for dividing into two tracks. The range for cattle is good. It is not more than 10 or 12 miles from Savannah by way of Wright’s Cut. The terms of sale may be known by applying to Mr. John David Mongin at New’ River, or to Mr. Archibald Smith, Savannah. ELIZABETH SMITH. WANTEft, MAN who writes a good haqd, and c£t take care of a wharf. ALEX. WATT. Savannah, grand lodge ofGeorgia. ‘ JUNE a), 5793. On Motion, RESOLVED, THAT aTI Lodges under the Jurifdirilion of this Grand Lodge, who inall not, on or before the next Quar terly Communication in December next, pay up their ar-- rears, or at least such part as may have been due lull Do* ccmber, are to be considered as having forfeited their Con (litutions, and no longer acknowledged by this Grand Wm* BELCHER, Grand Secretary. ibe dnbjcriber offers for da/e, * The following Property In Camden County: 106 Acres of high valuable Salt Marfli on Western Shore River. 400 Acres excellent. Pine Barren and endow Land, between Cole rain and the Burnt Fort. 117 Acies ditto, near ditto. 400 Acres well timbered Land, not far off navigation. 700 Acres 01 Pine and Meadow Land, oa Bailey’? Branch* aoo.Acie3 of Ditto, on Ditto. AIIoT'A few LO fS in the Towrt of Sr. Mary; and a Store one story high, i3 feet by 40, in two apartments, and lhelved} they rent at 7 dollars each per month* The terms of falc will be made caf); warranted title* will be given, and a renunciation of dower and thirds. Apply to JOHN JAMIESON. St. Mary’s, Augujl 30. GEORGIA, Camden County . r I is to certify, That 1 have carefully examined X the records of the Superior and Inferior Courts irr my office, and that there is no judgment entered up in laid Courts againfl John Jamiefon, nor no mortgages executed by him on record. Given under my hand and seal, at my office (l. s.) in the town of St. Mary, A true copy from the original in my pojjcjfion. July 16. Taxes for the Year 1798. THE lubfenoer is ready to receive the Tax of the pre* ft nt year, at his office, opposite Thomas Gibbons, Elq. Weft Broad ft root, every day (Sundays excepted) from nine to two o’clock. Nonrelklents importers of goods, wares, and merchandise, .from the ift of Febmary, 1798, are desired to make returns on cath, and pay up immediately; Defaulters who have negleriled to make rerums are desired to call on the Receiver of Tax Returns and make such on oath, otherwise a levy will be made for double the amount of what they arc assessed by the said Receiver; Persons owning more than ten thou sand acres of land, who have negieaed to cultivate, or caule to be cultivated, five acres for every hundred over and above ten thousand acres as aforelaid, will be afleffed in double tire amount of the tax. JOHN GIBBONS, Collector of Taxes of Chatham County . Gcljber 16. “l WLM V DOLLARS KKVVARD WILL be paid to any person who may lodge in the gaol of Savannah, the following NEGROES: Tom, a very well made smart little fellow, has his hair tied behind, or rather on the top of hisjiead, or near it; he is a cooper by trade. Fanny, his wife, a very likely ybung wench, about 5 feet 6 inches high, dresses very neatly, and has been a house servant. They are well known about Savannah anu moil of the plantations in the vicinity, where they have always lived till lately. It is supposed they will lurk about the plantation of George Milieu, ETq. or fome other in that neighborhood, front whence they will make frequent visits to the city. Ten collars will be paid for the delivery of either of them fe paratdy; Fanny run away about two weeks ago, Tout yellerday. JAs. JONES. Ship Yard , July 18, 1798. FlFii UOLLAKb REWARD. t” k' u ” J 1) AN AWAY from tlie fubferiber, ; ■* ii last May, A Negro Fellow, 1 named wEYSe parjs. about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, and about 2 7 years bf age, formerly belonged 1 v- to the Estate of Richard Guerard, Efq of May River: It is supposed he keeps about Savannah, and pafles for a free man; The above reward will be. paid oit delivery of the laid Negro to Mr. Samuel Lawrence, Mer chant in Savannah, or to the fubferibef at Beaufort, in South Carolina. Mailers of veflels, and all others, are cautioned againfl harboring or carrying away the said fellow. Th© said Negro fellow is a Aim, black, saucy looking fellow* and perhaps he has changed his name. Ocl. 9, 1798. Richard Ellis. r UP in Savannah, A NegrctWench, wh X calls herfelf Hannah , and sometimes Kate, and fays it is two or three years since (he ran away from Charleston, that flie belonged to the widow of Thomas Smith, but believes that she has been since fold to fom© person in the country; fl*e appears to be about 25 years old, of rather a yellow complexion. Whoever she belongs to may have her by applying to Matthew Motz, Keeper of the federal gaol, and paying charges of advertising, tic* Savannah, 3 atb Sept. 1797. FOR SALE, at the Printing Office in Broughton Price a quarter dollar, 1 The CANNIBALS PROGRESS, o it, The Dreadful Horrors of French Invasions