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From the GAZETTE of the i of Sooth-Carolina, December 8% GEORG! A, SV hirHtnm GEORGE WALTON, Efyuire , Governor and Commander in v tbt /aid State. WE the Reprefcntatives of the Freemen of Georgia, m Aflembly rrtet, beg'leave to inform your Honour of your unanimous Elefikion to the Office of Governor of this State. - The firm Confidence we rtpofe In your Abilities, Attachment to the Indeppadency of oor Country, give ua full AiTurance, that, under* your Administration, a Perseverance in those. Exertions, which have hitherto characterized the faithful Councils of this Country, will t*ke Place. Sir. We have consigned to your Care a sacred Trust, the Government of a People who have bled freely in thjtCaufe of the confederal Alliance, determin ed to seal the Attempt of redeeming this Country with the Blood of sll, ra ther than submit to tw detested and a bominable Yoke of B i ilh Rule. Wn.Lt am Glascock, Speaker* ♦ . V • To the Honokrdf>le the Speakerand the rejt of ike Members f the /ijfembly of the State of Georgia. Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen, l AM thankful for the Honour of your Appomtment, and polite Address, of Yvfterday; but I had been hopeful, from the late Afflictions with which it has pleased Heaven to visit me, that I ihouid not have been required, at this Time, to takean active Station in your Affairs: nor would any Thing but the Situation of the State calling for the Afliftance of evrry Man induce me to accept it. Rrlvine upon your faithful Support, I lhalt use my best Efforts to enforce the Laws for the Safety and Welfare of the People. On your Part much may be done.- The Constitution, and the Laws, call for a vigorous Support, to prevent, otherwise, unavoidable Anarchy. A Reprefen tatrm at Cxin-refs is moft ef fen ially neceflar •, the Well-being of our Stare, Tb* Existence oi irs Indepen dency, ud the Balance of Suffrage up on Queftiona_ deten inabl? by inevit able Interest, all depend upon it: Nor is the Reftor.*tion of Credit to our Pa per Circulation less important. The Enemy, exhatift -d by great Exenions, may choose to rilk all in one concluding Effort the enfu<ncr Winter} and, there fore, ;r is in< umb- nt to make the moft fpe* dy and effeftualPreparations tor the Sarety of the State. A G v rps of Horse men t watch the Motions of the Ene my, and the Thdiins, and fuffirient to keep but the Thieves from both, ihouid immediately be raised. Deci sive Measures should bepurfued again ft the unhappy but dangerous few who will live arrtangft us,—and yet love our Enemies! My late ‘Situation gave me an Opportunity of fee4ng, that, bv Per sons of this Description, the Councils of the tares are betrayed, By our Laws, it is already criminal tocbrrefpond wtth,* or fend Inre Bigrace to the Enemy; but’ fome certain aadefftdHial Mode of De tection might htTgointcd out and au thorized. />’ -.A y n ‘ ‘ Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen,’ I hawe learned a Lesson in Captivity. The Enemy keep ho Terrris with those they ftilfe Rebels: let us profit by the Example, and holdmqneJFith those who oublickly or secretly Adhere to the vaule of the Tyrant. Arl&l and insi dious as they are, let us be no longer imposed upon, but effectually put DiP affcCHon put of Countenance. For the Attainment of the great Objeft of the War, our Citizens have bled freely, and facrificcd every Eaft* and Comfort. Your Enemies confefs them to have been brave, and to have contended for theirjCountry like” Freemen ; and we VnoW, that all qtjrCottncils have been uniformly leading to prefentSafety and permanent Independency.’ Hitherto luftained by your own Virtue, there it noDoubt but that, in your present Dif tfeffes, Congr*f* nli support vou. Let us not, therefore, despair, but cheer fully bear every present IJI, father than admit an Idea of k partial Accommo dation with the Enemy. Real Services from our illustrious and moft friendly /illy are complete Proofs of h Sin* cerity of his Intentions j and the Junc tioaof Spain and Sweden in the War are new Pillars to the Independency of America, which no Earthly Powers, its my Judgment, can (hake. GEORGE WALTON. G-te O R G I A. By Hi Htnour GEORGE tVJLTOH, Esquire, Governor andConrmander inCbUf of the [aid State y A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the Members of Af* fembly, having met at Augufta,- and cyrgamzed. iriliitutional Form of Government or the State j and hav ing, by a Refclurion of the 17th In stant, recommended it to me to notify the fame to the People at large j I do, therefore, iffte this my Proclamation, dei taring the Laws of the State to be in full Force, and requiring Obedience to them. And, tda further enjoin all Magiftratek and others to be watchful and diligent in preventing any Abuses of the Laws: And, hi) Officers civil and military, appointed by the State, and wlro arc no attfent from it, are required 1 to give their Attendance at >this’ Place forthwith, to difeharge their refpe&ive Duties. Given under my Hand and Seal at Augusta, this twenty-ninth Day of November, in-the Year of our Lord, onj thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine; arid V in the fourth Year of the Inde pendency of America. G. WALTON. By Bit Honour's Confound, -Samuel Stiri^'Secretary. XXXXX*XX'X*XXXXXXX - Mr Prihti*, Jan. 14, 1780. U/HEN I saw a Proclamation, dated November 4, 1779, °f John Wiriat, Esq; President off me Board at Augusta that assumed govern mental powers, without any name, ac knowledging that, for the last year, the Stare of Georgia had been without any Afleqpbly or Legislature, and con sequently without any existence, and that* at*the famc'trme that be declared |he counties of Chatham, Glyn, Li berty, ind Effingham, were reduced by the Britifli forces, he directed an election to be held In these very coun ties the fir ft Tdefday of December, to meet on the firft Tuelday of January then next ensuing, I thought the ridi cule of the farce was then at its heighth, and that President Wereat himfelr, and his associates, not flaming the Board at which he presi ded, nor any autho rity under which they afted, (no As sembly having existed by his own com> session) rather looked upon this procla mation as a kind of dying speech than indulged any serious expectation that any persons would be bold or dupea enouch to obey it. Whether any election was held “oil that day is more than I tan tell; but, from another proclamation, ififued by George Walton, Efq*, or November i9th, importing, that, previous <0 that day, an Affemblv actually existed and chose him their Governor, I con ceive there must have’been fome revo lution among the States-men, or men of the S ate of Georgia, in which the said President Wereat must have come off by the lee, theush, admitting any government had existed, his proclama tion had a foundation in their Constitu tion, which cannot be claimed by that of Governor Walton i However this be, there appear now two proclaiming powers, Presidents or Governors, or whatever stile they may claim in the State of Georgia, of which the one or other, even upon the principles of Re bellion, must certainly be an usurper; and an impartial bystander will easier be induced to do justice to both of them than probably these great men to each other. As things appear now from the State Gazejtte of South-Caro lina, it would seem that the non exist ence of sn Aflembly in Georgia, as as serted by the President, is an arrant falfehood, and that the Aflembly as rctlly existed fomewbere as an army once lay incog, at Knightfbridge; that of course the Prefidcnt's proclamation went for nothing, and that the Aflem bly, no matter whether, when or where cholen, contrary to their Constitution met at Augusta and chose George Wal tonp Esq; Governor. Whether Presi dent Wereat, feat of government alio is at Augusta, and his Board,’’ap proved or eppofed the election, mani feftly in opposition to their proclama tion, does not appear; but it seems the wheel took a turn, and President We* reat got to the bottom while Governor Walton rides triumphantly atop. I shall fay nothing about the former, left it Ihouid be an infuit upon a man in high Poor man! be fore he and his B.ad, whaft procl*ma- ; tion however is intelligible and not in decent, have driven out King George, he and they must learn to submit to tho authority taovernor Walton, ansi , will never be at a loss for daily proofs how much they arc gainers by the ex- - change. I would not be thought to find fault With the appointment; there is a Angu lar happiness attends this new Gover nor, all parties applaud ‘.he and the King's friends arc foremoft to de clare no man can be worthier,, fitter,’ more deserving of ‘.his post, trad mora likdy to ißfww a good purprjfc, than