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SATURDAY, September 15, 17871 GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE O R ... . • ‘ • - • v - ■) ,1 .' ■ • j, INDEPENDENT REGISTER. . ' . - . ' . , . ~.T " •«. , FREE D O M of the TRESS, and TRIAL b r jUR Y, to remain inviolate forever. C«njhm, n of Gmgia. AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State; FJfap, Article, of Intelligence* Advertijements , &c. will be gratefully and every kind of Printing performed* Ex trad f a letter jrom a friend to the SOLDIER. “ T HAVE seen Virginius’s third piece, in J. which he barely touches Cn the fubjeft of the rlifpute between you, and takes up almolt the •whole of it in inventive and personal abuse, tor which (to give the devil his due) he appears to be excellently qualified, and in which indeed, he is only confident; for personal abuse is his text, and absurd contradictious, indelicate requisitions, and round allertions without a tingle inflance of proof, make up the flourilh of his performance. In his fiitt paragraph, he makes your tefidence an apology for your performance, then compliments you on your improvement in the art of writing, but fotgets both the apology a»d compliment be fore he finithes even that paragraph-. He next abuses you for your btantijuifigure , as be calls it, wherein you assert you will not tbitw dirt at him, but in the next words proves that he. will conti nue to throw it at you, which if not a beautiful, is a confident figure in him, as the whole purport of his performance is evidently to throw dirt; and this, as well as fevera.l subsequent femences, ( »btmdamly prove not only that nature has ntffbcen liberal to him in military endowments, but that .she has been a perfeft niggard to him in the diftri* bution of the finer feelings, and even of common delicacy ; —for, what do they contain but a repe tition of fulfome compliments, through you, to himfelf as your tutor?—and repeated and indeli cate requisitions of yon, to allure us when aud -wbfre yo'u fought and bled for voyr country, and ■on many trying occasions gave proof of your at 4 tachment to it ——The following inftancr, out of many, will be fufficient to rtiew that noth ing could be more grating to a soldier When Caius Marcius Was a candidate for the CohfullHip, and Cominius, the General, was about to relate to the Senate, those glorious atchievements of Caius in the battle of Corioli, for which he obtain* ed the name of Coriolanus, Caius left the room, faying, “ He would rather get his wounds again, ** than hear him tell how he did get them.” But Virginius proves tp us that he would have felt no pain in such a situation !—and if you had given the instances he lays such ltrefs on, yet from the great compliment,he pays this country fefpefting iaitlj, may we ,npt reasonably fufpe.Q that such calumny as his, would have induced him to inli nuate that it was falfehood clothed in the pilfered garb of truth ? He concludes these sentences with a comparison which is excellent, as it relates so himfelf, but which even Falftaff would have laid to be moltunfavoury, had it heen to any other, Viz. That your ideas have received fire byfriftion vyith his, though they lay like electricity in a dung bill, by which, if he does not mean his brain, lam Qta loss to know what he means. He fays, “ It is the want of penetration that prevents you feeing the propriety of declining to lign the recommendation of the assembly, and that as yqu cannot comprehend or forefee the dan ger of the proposed alterations, it will be need- Jess for him to repeat the application of his eye jfalve, and complains that you have not given any appearance of argument to support your aflertions.” If Virginius had any modelty, might yon hope that your labour would not be in vain ? But as ig norance and obstinacy are -ever iufeparable, there, was little hope of convincing a man, who could be obstinate enough to set up his opinion in oppo sition to the united wisdom of.the assembly, for he Who could be weak enough to do that, would be Qbftinate enough to attempt the Support of it, Yirym\)B t he Should vffsv ucthing but tales of «* dancing to old trunks, and of moun tains in labour but to a model! or reasonable man, you need have given no other argument than the recommendation of the General Assembly, and while you have that on your fide, you may falely appeal to every man of common sense, whe ther you or Virgiuius bell deserve the name of “ folly impaling herfelf upon the public, in all “ the insolent gravity of wisdom,” and if you deserve to have the “ posse comitatus at your “ back,” what does he defeive on his ? “ But who can refrain from laughter, when he charges you with “ expressions which are the dregs “ of a barren imagination, and serve only to fill | “ upthechafm of your thoughts,” or as he more pomponfly expt elles it in another place by a quo- : ration, “ to fill up all the mighty void of sense,” — when every one but Virginius mVitl detcunine at the firll fight, of that and fcveral fubfequeht sen tences, that they are only a jargon 6f pompous ex preflioris, and not so afitfriated as *o give Us any idea of the tTbtli or justness of his reasoning ; but on the contrary, abundantly prove his enfptinefs, excefiive vanity, add great paflion for feurrility, j "tfifwj 1 '"team-- 1 h Ttl ■ • tlieiwdau* on your brow, serve only to remind ug., 0 the v.f er in the fable, gnawing a file; for thatlaurel mod look green and flourilh ing in the eyes of every f.iehd to American Inde pendence, To long as tibeV;y is precious, and our heatts are fnfccptible of a felilh for it. He next allows yon brilliancy Os fryle, thfcb pofitlvery de- : r.ies you pofiefs a'ny of the 3e:be eal Tpiiit, yet charges you with not doing your to ydurjCrr* ator, in benefiting the world by the donation of it. Monflrous !—and yet this man sets himfelf up for the guardianship cf other tr.cn ; foi he next arlvifes you to go—be foi gotten, &c. but as you have not asked his advice, you cannot farejy be tared with want 6f p'olitentfs, if you tel! him you cannot think he jfofeffes the qualifications neces sary to give good advice, and that it becomes him better to go hnd learn to be less inconfifient, and less felf-fuffccibqt, before he offers it again though for his style, I Would allow him as much of the jetberal spirit as will enable him tolhine as a ruih jight by a liar of the firlt magnitude “ His next charge I think, is of **bafenefs ii> « fufpefting him of Tome private views ,in this «« bufmefis.” I confefs when a man addretfes his fellow-citizens in Fuch pathetic and endearing terms, to decline doing what the assembly. from a thorough conviftion of the. heceffity of it, had recommended to them to do, and endeavours to alarm them with the molt dreadful cohlequences of doing so, I think there is good ground For thi suspicion, and if lb, it is easy tt> determine Who has the belt title to the epithet of baftnefs. He has twice, he fays, “ r onatjeendtd to the indignity <« of anfweritag the filly cbfervations of weakness “ and contempt, and is aftaid of the debasing “ consequences of a third attempt.* Heavens 1 what a superior order of beings mult Virginius be of! But the balance of the performance being on ly repetitions of Virginius’s vanity and talents for abuse, I lhall trouble you with no ‘ more observa tions, left I tire you as well as yout's.— * Writing Paper To .be fold at vhe Printing-Office. I ike wife, BUnfc Deeds of Conveyances aid Bonds v, *\ » I the GEORGIA. By the Honorable GgORGE MATHEWS, Elq. Captain General, Governor and Com mander in Chief in and over the said State. A Proclamation. WHEREAS there is just reason to apprehend by dispatches received from the Creek nation, that hosti lities will very Ihortly commence on the part of the Indians, which, renders it absolutely necessary that the Legislature Ihotild be convened, in orderto deliberate on mea sures for the defence of the State: I HAVE THEREFORE thought fit, by and with the advice and consent of the Honorable the Executive Coun cil, to iftim this my Proclamation notifying the fame, and requiring the attendance of the General Afl'embty of the said State, as Augusta, on Thurf* day, the 20th day of September next, for the dif * i>atcb of public business. Gives under nrf+fand xnd .tiw Ci*u s*»t of State, at Augusta, this ninth Day if Augltft, in the Yfcar of our Lord Onfe Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Sc* t - ven, and of our Sovereign ty and lude« pentlcnce the Twelfth. GEORGE MATHEWS. By His Honor’s Command, • * Miittn-t Scc’y. GOD SATE THE STATE! * •*- •, 1 -1 k .' , * 11 i **'•*'■ ' ■-r ■■■ "t , . **■-■ , ». lor the Augitjla Troop of Drago(jns> A FEW Recruits aie wanting—Any Citizen who is defirtius of joining this troop, who has a fu rable hoife, and can accoutre himfe.lf, will nuke application to Mr. COLE, Cornr.t of the Tioop, at Augusta, who will have his name en rolled. .Ann those who have heretofore received swords, and at the last meeting declared their in capacity t? serve in the troop, are df.fired to re turn the swords to Serjeant Todd, or Serjeant Zimmerman. r ■ THOMAS CLASCCCfc, Commandant. N. B. There is no other expe.nce attends thia troop, except the purchase of a i .hiform, which is not cofllyj befidts the fines non-attendance; agreeable to tRe Militia Law, - • - - —— -• . _ r Elen. Prescott , TjLGfc leave to inform his friends I Tj find the yublic in peneral, thut i t has removed from Wall ingten, \ftilkes county, t< this place, wheie he interds canying on the Watch and Clock meting Bufmefs in its different branches. He flatters him.elf Irom his opp< rtunities, and the degree or knowler ge he has at tained in the bufiiels, that he will give ample latistadt on u thole Lacies and Gentlemen who may tavot him with their employ lis refidentc is at Mr* fcarris's, in Augusta, [No. LI. 3