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SATURDAY, June 21; 1788. n . ' - ’•» f *■ GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE OR INDEPENDENT REGISTER. ✓ / FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL b 7 JURY, to remain inviolate forever. CcrjliiuiUn cj G ter gits AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State ; Fjfays % Articles of Intelligence , Advertisements , «/// be gratefully received , and every kind of Printing per firmed. ——mrf 1 r 1- .... _ L1 _ . _ » GEORGIA By the Honorable GEORGE HANDLEY, Elquire, Cap tain General, Governor and Com mander in Chief in and over the laid State. A Proclamation. WHEREAS the Creek Indians have, by the Agent from the Commissioners, fignifted a pacific disposition and desire to treat with the Superintendant for the Southern Department* and the laid Comm if fioners ; in consequence whereof the Executive have appointed a time and place for holding the said treaty : AND WHEREAS sundry other weighty and important matters re quire the immediate attention ot the Legifiarure of the said Rate, 1 H A Vc, Ti EREFGRE, by and with the advice and content of the honorable the Executive Council, thought fit to issue this my Proclamation, re quiring the Legislature to convene at Augusta, on Tuejdty the twenty • Jecoad day of July next, to proceed Co the diipatch ot public bufine's. GIVEN under my hard and the Great Seal of the said State at Au&ufta, the [eventec nth day cf June, in the Year of cur LORD One TkoufandSeven Hundred and Eighty-eight, and cf our Sovereignty and Inde pendence the Twelfth. ~ GEORGE HANDLEY. By His Honor's Commend , J. MILTON, Su’ry. GOD SAVE THE STATE! -*©♦- Id COUNCIL, June 14, 1788. Ordered, 1 ' ». « . THAT the Commanding Officers cf the refpedive counties, do cause a return to be made of all depredations committed by the Indians since januaiy 1787} notifying in co lumns the number of whites and blacks kil led,, and their ages, also the number wound ed, together with all the different species of property plundered and destroyed, the fame to be made on oath before one or more Ma gi Orates, tod utufmiued to tbi& Board with out delay. Ordered, That the fame be pujbUffied in the State Gazette. Extra# from the Hinuttt , J/ MUUWfcTHfcK, b. E. C. T H E .#*’* * " * AUGU S7* June 21 . The Honorable the Executive Council, conjunftion with the Supenntendant oflndiau Affairs for the Southern Department, have appointed the 15th day of September next for thepurpofe of holding a treaty with the Creek nation, at Larklin Cleveland’s, in the county of Franklin. Mr. SMITH, AT a time when we may every moment look for that happy event, the adoption of the new Constitution by the ninth Hate ; when a meeting of chofeu men is to be held for the purpose of revifmg our local govern ment —fliotild we not confider what laws would be best to substitute in lieu of those which we groan under at present ? All laws, I conceive, ought to be adapted to the kind of government, and to the temper and Constitution of the particular country they are designed for; and in general, I believe, those laws which are moll agreeable to na tural equity (forne few exceptions made) aie the best. As laws are a kind of barrier against the inroads of vice, they must certainly have re courle to the terror of punilhments to com mand refpctf : But the laws which require the great est circuinfpectjou and prudence on the pait of the Legillature, are undoubtedly those relating to debtors* if they are favour able to the creditor, the lunation of the debtor becomes too hard ; on the other hand, if they lhould favour the debtor, public cre dit is hurt by weakening the fccunty of con tracts; but if a new perfect medium could not be ellabliftied for the mutual security of creditor and debtor, I would prefer enabling a law more favourable to the former than the latter. r lhe confidence of the creditor fully claims it. I am, mylelf,' Well acquainted v. ith people in this country who owe large ft nis ; aud who are in pofieffion of property, the common irtereft of which would be an infinite relief to tlicit fuffei it)g creditors: But theie people, instead of having a thought to wards the payment of their debts, continue to live in much Iplendour, and are calling out now for an lnjl ailment to lcteen them and enable them to retain yet longer the vast property they hold, until they can cflett what leems their wilh—to riefiaud al together the uuiuiiunste men who had yuu ficeuce in them. I fincereiy hope, and I hope it in behalf of our character as an honed people, that this unge nerous in Bailment law wiii meet its flefcrts, if any perfou will be hardy enough to bring it toward in our Afiembly. Ci%is et Miles in Vno. Ai Augujla , June jB, iySB. ANECDdTE. AS a, geotleinan, in a certain Coffee houlc, was writing a letter to his friend, there being a good deal of company prefeut, a pert young fcbow polled himleif behind him.—The gentleman concluded his letter with these words: “ I ftiould wri*e “ more, but theie is an impertinent puppy “ looking over my ftuuldci.” The maua roui mftantly turned upon his heel, and ex claimed aloud, “ I'll be damn’d ii 1 was *• lockio| over your rUculder 1” [No. XCI.] ' CHARLESTON, May 15. From a CorreipOndent There is not, I believe, tinder the fun, .1 people who are so trembling alive when any thing is fhirf about government as the Ame ricans. The many gronndlefs fears that have been excited among the good people of this country, bV the appearance of the proposed Federal Constitution, may serve as a proof of it: hut however gronndlefs thev may be, I wilh that the fears of every honed man may be removed, or h: cannot be h ppv under the government be it ever so good. It is to quiet the appTehendons of some of your readers that I fend you the following rematks for publication —There are manv very honed people who are extremely alarmed at the povfirs of the President of the United States; and chiefly hee*ufe he may be rc-elefted after having fetved four years so they think that the office may defeend from father to son, and by degrees this government become an here ditary monarchy. The powers polTeffed by the President aie pretty generally acknowledg ed to be necelfary in every well constituted government; and it is also generally thought necefl’ary to lodge these powers in the hands of a Angle perfou. So much has been writ ten upon the fubjdrt, to prove that there are checks fufficient to prevent his abusing his powers, that I fliall only take notice of one Angle clatiie, which I think will be an eternal barrier against the office becoming hereditary. No perfou under the age of thirtv-fivc years can be elccled to the prefldcncy of the Unit ed States. Fiom this Angle circumflance, it is morally impcffible that this office should be continued long in the fame family, were the people ever so much inclined to it, because it ' will verr rarely happen that the President at his death will have a son old enough to be a 1 candidate. This v.ill appear fuffc'ently clear to those who will take the pains to examine hiftory for themfclves. I think it will I c found, on examining the ages of petfons com ing to the crown in the usual line of fuccef lion, that there are very few wbee the crown could have been continued in the fame fartiily for any confidetable length of time, had it been elcfiive in the mode and with such limitations as arc required by tbs new Federal Constitution : Let us take Eng land for an example, from the time of William the Conqucrer. As William did not come to i the crown in the usual way of fucccffion, we are to leave him out of the account ; and then ' it appears that there were only eight of the . whole number, that weretliitty-five yeatsold when they came to the crown, and only me of the eight, namely, George the second, who was the fun of the immediate prcdecef '» for—the others were only collateral branches of the ioyal family. This appears by the fol lowing account of their rcfpeClive ages at the time of their coining to the crown : After William the Conqueror comes Wil liam ad, who was 31 years old. Henry irt 48; but he was not the son of William the 2d, his immediate predeccfl'or.—Stephen 31 —Henry 2d, 21—Richard irt, 31 — John 33 —Henry 3d, 10 —Edward ill, 33 Edward ad, *3 —Edward 3d, ij— Richard 2d, 11 Henry 4th, 33 —licnry sth, 25 Henry 6th, y months—Edward 41b, 1 y years— EH waul sih,^ja—Richard 3d, 29—Heury yih, te>— Henry Bth, ly— Edward4th, 9— Mary ift, >; .i 11:01 tU daughter of Edward 6.l—Lii/a-