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SATU RDA Y, March 24, 1787. THE GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE O R INDEPENDENT REGISTER. ----- _ ■ _ FREEDOM of th« PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, to remain inviolate forever. Constitution of Georgia. AUGUSTA: Prmtei by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the StateEffays , Articles of ‘ Intelligence, Advertijements, (Sc. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed. IN COUNCIL, March to, 1787. (Concluded from our lust.) Mr. Nathan Bulh, Qi Do you know of any waggons belonging to any one brigade, that have been returned in any other brigade ? A. I know of no waggons being returned but in the bri gade to which they belonged. Colonel Sanders being sworn, fayeth, That he was the firll Officer at Camp, and that he was par ticular in observing the conduft of the Quarter-Master-Ge neral with refpeft to waggons; that he found him very at tentive to his duty in receiving and difeharging waggons; that with refpeft to his making partial payments of money, he called on the Quarter-Mailer-General for payment for neceftarics which he had procured for the use of the troops, and that the Quarter Mailer-General informed him he could only pay agreeable to rotation; that there were numbers be fore him, and when it came to his turn he ihould receive his money ; and upon the whole he never saw or difeovered any thing in the conduft of the Quarter-Master-General, but what was consistent with propriety, and that he was always very particular in his vouchers and receipts, Qi Did you ever fee a lift of waggons polled up in camp at Shoulder Bone ? A. I did fee two; which agreed as to the number of waggons. Did the Quarter-Master-General keep a greater quan tity of waggons in camp or on detachment, than what was really neceftary ? A. No. The number of waggons employed were not fully adequate to the duties of camp; the Quarter-Master- General was frequently obliged to call on the Commanding Officer and myfelf for our baggage waggons. Q. Do you know the number of waggons in General Clark’s brigade l A. No. Was it customary when waggons came into camp with forage, tcc. to detain them longer than was neceftary ? A. I attended particularly to this business, and found that the Quarter-Master-General never did keep any waggon longer than was absolutely neceftary, and in my opinion dis charged some when they ought to have been detained. Do you know the number of waggons that were poft eft up in camp ? A. I believe the number were between sixty and seventy, but cannot fay positively. Benjamin Netherland being again called on, fays, that the lift of waggons polled up in camp by him, contained thirty eight or thirty-nine waggons and no more, and that he never did set up any other lift whatever. After having gone through the evidence both for and against the Quarter-Master-General, and hearing the Attorney em ployed by the Court in behalf of the Hate, and examined the books and papers of the Quarter-Master-General, The Court ate of opinion y That from Mr. Netherlands fi xation, being only a Brigade Quarter-Mailer, he could not ppffibly be acquainted with all the different stations, and num ber of waggons employed in the Quarter-Mafter-GeneraPa Department, and that the difference in their returns is pro. perly accounted for to the Xatisfattion of this Court. Be it therefore Ordered, That John Appling, Esq. Quarter- Master-General, be and he is hereby honorably acquitted, v and restored to his former rank and situation, inverted with all the powers he heretofore held, as if no such charge had ever been brought againrt him.* JAMES MERIWETHER, Secretary. Mr. Smith , PER Ml T me for a moment to make tome few observa tions upon the tobjeft of ignorance and felf-interert, twin brothers. —On reading tome of your late papers, I difeovered a kind of petty quarrel between Curtius and An Augufia Merchant—Curtius sets out like a fiery comet, blazing with the fire of freedom, calling upon his fellow citizens to rouse from their lethargy, guard their liberties, and beware of the intriguing Merchants —Surely if, when those Gentlemen were supported in the cabinet by tome of the greatest men in the world, and in the field by fifty and tometimes sixty thousand of their chosen veteran troops, and yet could not effeft their favourite scheme, they cannot at this time be supposed com petent to any dangerous purpose, for they are really no more than tenants at will—Although they live in our country, we can remove them at pleasure, and the day may not be far distant, when necefiity will oblige us so to do. Curtius then all of a sudden comments on the wisdom of our Legislature, a blefling, which, to be tore, we experience in a very emi nent degree. Methinks this Gentleman must have been pay ing a visit to Bacchus when he began this quarrel. Nor could the Augujia Merchant be less remiss in his devoirs to the an cient Monarch, for he begins his answer, or rather defence, with equal warmth —He firft appeals to all liberal minds for the refleftion cart upon his country ; secondly he feels hira felf extremely opprefled by the return of his brethren from the opposite fliore, who, he fays, flew from their colours in the hour of calamity, and consequently cannot be entitled to an equal share of the plunder ; thirdly, he fays he owes mo ney in another country, and in his conscience cannot think of offering his creditors Paper Money in payment; and, finally, prays to be acquitted from the odious charge of extortion, for that he is not the man, but one that will now fight for his country, &c.—The Georgians have lenity, yet, I trust, they have difeernment too; and if to, lam confident this Gentle man will be found guilty among others of his profeflion.— He has said in his defence that the Planters firft set him the example; this I deny—for it is a well known faft, that there are very few Planters in this state, who make more tobacco than will procure them, byway of barter, the common ne cessaries of life and clothing for their Negroes ; and as to the price which they might require for the remainder if any they had, this could be deemed nothing more than a mere specu lation, which the daily sluts uation of paper money would atfually toggeft to every man of common sense. But Ido predift that this poor opprefled fellow citizen, called Paper Money, who is thus so ungratefully treated, and who foorten [No. XXVI.