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In COUNCIL, March io, 1787. THE Board again resumed the Order of the Day, for the trial of John Appling, Esq. Qparter-Mafter-Gencral, and having come to a final determination thereon : It is Ordered, That the proceedings be publiihed in the State Gazette. ExtraS from the Minutest JAMES MERIWETHER, S. E. C. At a COURT of IMFEACHMENT began and held in Augusta, on Thursday the Bth Day of March, 1787, Prefent~His Honor the Governor ; The Honorable John Cobb, Benjamin Fifhboriie, John- King, Thomas Harris, John Greene, James Armstrong, Niel Cleveland, Williams Green, and Reuben Wilkerson, Esquires. Agreeably to the Order of Couneil of the 12th of February last, the Court proceeded to the trial of John Appling, Esq. Quarter.Matter-General, charged by a Refolutioh of the Honorable House of Aflembly of the x«th of February with some impropriety of conduit. Florence Sullivan, Esq.—Attorney in behalf of the State. Seaborn Jones, Esq.—Attorney for Mr. Appling. f Benjamin Netherland being sworn, Question. Do you know of any other waggons in General Clark’s brigade, besides those returned by you t Answer. T know of none. Do you know whether the service of Knox’s waggon was performed after the appointment of the Qnarter-Maftef- General i A. It was. Q. Did you apply to the Quartet-Matter-General to en. ter Knox’s waggon ? A. Yes;—when he informed me that it did not come under his notice. I likewise applied to him for money on account of J. Barnet, which I could not get. Did not the Quarter-Matter-General'inform you, that if you would produce receipts and vouchers for the monies which you had received, that he would make you farther ad vances ? * A. He did not. Qi At what time did you apply to the Quarter-Matter- General for money ? A. At different times; and have received about one hundred and one pounds, when my account was one hundred and seventy-two pounds ; and he has paid others since he refufed me. Qj_ Do you recolleft the Quarter-Mafter-GeneraPs call ing on you at Colonel Napier’s, and the conversation ? A. The Quarter-Matter-General informed me that he fliould not be able to up his accounts, and that if I would sign receipts for him, he would give me fifty pounds. Q. Did you conceive that the money offered you by the Quarter-Matter-General was to go in part for yoiirfervices, or that it was intended for a bribe ? A. I understood that the fifty pounds were intended to be given me as an inducement to sign the receipts. Qi. Whether, were the receipts the Quarter-Matter-Ge neral requested you to sign, for sums really due to individu als for services performed, or intended as frauds against the Hate ? A. They were for debts aftnally due to individuals but intended to answer his purpose in patting his accounts. John Talbot, Esq. being sworn, fayeth, That he applied to the Quarter-Matter-General for pay for the hire of a waggon he had in the service, that he did not get it then, but some time during the setting of the Affemblv he made a second application, and received about forty dia lings ; and after that he called on him again, he thinks it was the day the Quarter-Matter-General went to Savannah and received fall payment for two waggons, one his own, the other belonging to Mr. Zimmerman. Nathan Butti being sworn Was it cuttomary to have waggons employed a few days, and then difeharge them ? A. It frequently was the case that waggons brought corn to camp, and were tlifchargetl immediately. o. Do yon know what occasioned the difference between Mr. Netherland s return of waggons, and the Quarter-Ma fler-General’s ? A. I compared the Quarter- Matter- General’s return with Mr. Netherlands, at Shoulder Bone, and afterwards pufted them up ; the numbers then agreed, and to the heft of ,„v recollection were fifty-two or fifty-three waggons. ' f Were any of the waggons that were returned i a Clark’s brigade, detatched ? A. Yes—Four were sent to Savannah for Indian goods, and several others detatched on different duties. Q. What was the reason that Mr. Netherland could not receive money from the Quarter-Mafler-General, as well as other persons ? A. The Quarter-Mafler-General informed him that he Ihould receive money as soon as he had accounted for what he had already received. William Campbell being sworn, fayeth, That he was at the Rock Landing with a waggon about thirty-fix days, and that two other waggons were there also. Adjourned until to-morrow Ten o’clock. (The remainder will be in our next.) HARTFORD, January 15. What news from the state of Massachusetts is the queftiod. To be seems now th#ir determination. Gen. Lincoln, at the head of a large army, is under march ing orders, to support the dignity of that state, and the regular adminiflration of justice. Gen. Shepherd was on Sunday morning last, at Spring field, preparing the barracks for the reception of Gen. Lin coln’s army.' N E W-Y O R K, January 25. Died, in this city, on Tuefday the 9th iuflant, half after nine o’clock, A. M. Capt. Solomon Pendleton, late Surveyor in Georgia. He arrived here from thence paflenger with Capt. Carpenter on the 21st of-November, in a consumption. He bore- his sickness and distress with great resignation and patience, arid embraced death with aChriftian fortitude, and a ftedfaft faith in Chriff. In him was loft a valuable member offociety, and a sincere friend to his country. PHILADELPHIA, J an . 3 r. The 23d inst. the Supreme Cdiirt exhibited a strong infiance of human depravity and turpitude : Jacob Dryer, a convift, who, by the ad for mitigating the severity of capital punish ments, was to have been ffentenced to the wheelbarrow, re-, fufed to profit by the benefit of the law, and preferred death, sentence of which was accordingly pronounced againfthim. • RICHMOND, December 9. Pn the HOUSE of DELEGATES, Wednesday, November 29, 1786. The House, according to the order of the day, resolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole House, on the state of the Common wealthy and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Matthews reported that the Committee had, according to order, again had the state of the Commonwealth under their consideration, and Had come to several resolutions thereupon, which he read in his place, and afterwards delivered in at the clerk’s table, where the fame were again twice read, and agreed to by the House as followeth : Resolved unanimoufiy, That if is thd opinion of this Com mittee, that a copy of the memorial of sundry inhabitants of the weftern country, ought to be forthwith transmitted to the Delegates refpefting this state in Congress. Resolved unanimoufiy, That it is the opinion of this Co mmittee, that the common right of navigating the river Mifli flippi, and of communicating with other nations through that channel, ought to beconlidered as the bountiful gift of nature to the United States, as proprietors of the territory watered by the said river and its eastern branches ; and as moreover, feeured to them by the event of the late revolution. Resolved unanimoufiy, That it is the opinion of this Com mittee, that the confederacy having been formed on the broad basis of equal rights in every part thereoi, to the protection and guardianlhip of the whole, a facrifice of the rights of any one part, to the fnppcfed or real of another part, would be a tiagrant violation of justice, a drteft contravention of the end for which the fcederal government was instituted, and an alarming innovation in the system of the union. Resolved therefore unanimoufiy, as the opinion of this Com mittee, That the Delegates representing this state in Congress, ought to be inftru&ed in the most decided terms, to oppose any attempt that may be made in Congress to barter or surren der to any nation whatever the right of the United States to the free and common use of the river Mifiiflippi; and to protell againlt the lame as a diftionorablc departure from that com-