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P 0 E T R y.
From flie Poems of ROBERT BURNS,
the celebrated Ayrjhire Ploughman*
A
PRATER,
IN THE
PROSPECT of DEATH.
• . v . i r • t 9.
I.
OTHOU unknown, Almighty eaufe
Os all my hope and fear!
whole dread Presence, ’ere an hour
Perhaps I mull appear*
tl.
If I have wander’d in those paths
Os fife I ought to fliun;
As Something , loudly, in my brcaft,
Remonftratcs I have done;
HI.
Thou know’ft that Thou haft formed me
With paflions wild and strong;
And lift’ning to their witching voice
Has often led me wrong.
IV.
Where human wuaknefs has come ftiort
Or frailty ftept aside,
Thou, All-Good! for such Thou art,
* In (hades of darkness hide.
♦ .
V.
Where with intention I have err’d,
No other plea I have,
But, 9hou art Good ; and goodncfs (till
Delighteth to forgive;
Stolen or Strayed
Off Augusta Common f on Sunday night the
2Jfi, or Monday morning the ltd injl .
A Bright Bay Horse, about
fourteen and a half hands high,
four years old last spring, has two white
feet behind, and a blaze down his face,
toot broke into any paces, very clean limbs,
and likely made, (hod before ; was pur
chased a stud from the estate of Dr. Todd,
But has been lately cut. A Reward of
FIVE GUINEAS will be paid imme
diately on delivery of said Horse to the
Subscriber in Augusta, or if ftoletf, TEN
guineas on conviftion of the thief. |
GEORGE HUNT.
Augusta, Sept. 23, 1788.
Wanted to Exchange,
A sensible, compleat
Waiting Boy,
For a strong, able Field Slave.
Apply to the Printer.
Augusta, Oft. 9, 1788.
A Lift of Defaulters in Capt. TufTell’a
Piftrift, Burke County.
TOHN Corker, John Canada, Richard'
J Strauder, William Pearson, Francis
Jones, Abfolem Wells, on the. Bill of
Attainder. ' ' * ’
WILLIAM WEEL, Rec.
t GEORGIA. (
By the Honorable GEORGE 1
H A N D L bY, Esquire, Cap
tain General, Governor and
Commander in Chief in and
over the said State.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS feveraf Resolutions of
the Aftembly paffcd the
thirtieth and thirty-firft days of
January last, wherein the Executive are
empowered to convene the Members no
minated by the said Resolutions,. at Au
gusta, “ as soon as may be, after offi?ial
“ information is received that nine ffates
“ have adopted the Federal Constitution
AND WHEREAS official information is
received from the Congress of the Unit
’ ed States, dated th*'thirteenth day of Sep
tember last, notifying that the fame is
' adopted, and directed proceedings to
; commence thereon ; I HAVE THERE
| FORE, agreeably to tßfcfaid Resolutions,
and with the advice and confenf of the
Honorable the Executive Council', thought
fit to iflue this my Proclamation, requir
ing the persons so nominated and appoint
ed, to convene i wAugufta owTue/dayrtht
Fcurib day of November next; then and
there “ to proreed to take under their
“ consideration the alterations and atnend
“ ments that are necelfary to be made
u in the Constitution of- this State.”
Given under my Hand and the Great
Seal of the Jaid Stare> at Augujia ,
this Sixth Day of October, in ikt
Year of our L(J R D One Tbo u
/and Seven Hundred and Eighty
eigbt, and of our Sovereignty and
Independence the Thirteen*h*
GEORGE HaWGLEY. .
By His Honor's Command,
J. Milton, Sec’y.
| GOD SAVE THE STATE.
In COUNCI L, October i, i;88.
Ordered ,
THAT Tuefday the i ith of Novem
ber next, be aftigned for the trial
of the following Appeals :>
Charles Ward,. >
vs. >
Daniel M‘Murphy, j
John Barnett & P. Crawford, 1
VB. S
William Strother & .Sam. Gardner, y
Extrafffrom the Minutes ,
J. MERIW.ETHER, S. E. C.
To be let,
THE
Dwelling-boufe
Next to Mrs. Lauder’s, lately
occupied by Colonel Call.
WILLIAM WALLACE,
An gufta., Sept . 17, 1788.
ANDREW Whitefield tolls n black
Horse about eight years old, thir
teen and a half hands high, a natural
pacer, branded on the mounting (houlder
S H and on the near buttock thus S H and
M
has a blemish on the right eye. The
owner may prove the property before
t>. HUNTER, J. P.
Augusta, Sept. ZQ) 1788.
In COUNCIL,
A Letter dated 14th J„„ e f L'S
cretary of Congteft, »i,h ao /ck(M«
was read, J
Ordered, That the enclof/ be I)
liflied iu the State Gazette./
Ertradl from tbSinutts, i
J. MERIWETHB, S,E.c,l
\/
By the UNITED in coßf
GRESS Artembled, Jr 11 *
On the report of a c/kmittee c.>nsH
ing of Mr. Dane, Mr^ am ihonandM
Brown, to whom vva'^ e^ erre( i a
of John Buchanan 317 °thet invalids, j
• who were ordered' 0 ta^e i nto C
' tion the Invalid j/ablilhment:
Resolved, IV e3ch State (hall !,,■
eredit in its /Cneral account with
United State' for r “ ch fonts as becal
doe to- the before the firftdayH
January, which have
hiall be/ ai ‘l to them b y the state ; a M“
for fuc* frms as became due to InvaEfl
from cb e laid firfl- day of January,
i, ic ufive, to tbo firffday of January i-M
a <d which have been- or flail be paid fl
.hem by any date, * the state ftialllj
credit in the existing specie requifltionsfl
Congreifs ; and for sums that nny io Hr
come due after January, i;Bs, and H
paid by any state, the state (hail have cr®”
dit in the specie requisitions of CougrHfl
which may hereafter be made. Hi
Rejclved, That no person ftiallbetMn
titled to a pension as an invalid who Hr
not or lhall not before the expiration Hn
flx months from this time make applicHe’
tion therefor, and produce the retjuiiiH,
Gertificates and Evidence to entitle hilai
• thereto. Ha
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec’jlni
Hii
—
RUN away from the Snbfcriber, ear* 1 !
in the last spring, as he repeated® l
had done before, a Negro fellow nam<H u
jEMMY, about five feet fix or fcv<H f
inches high, w'ill at times change his nvH
- as he will his master’s name, fpeaksbH
Englilli, and might be taken for analmoH
new negro, but is very plausible aH
artful, has his country (Ebo) ;marksoH
111 5
his face thus 111 111, or thus 5 H
and is well known about Spirit CrecH
having been twice taken at the platitatioH
of Mr. William Boftick, and was vcrH
lately taken up by Capt. M‘Gee.—-H
Likewise run away from the SubfcribeiH
in the month of July 1785, andfuppofeH
to be somewhere in the back country, H
new negro of the fame nation, knownbfl
the name of JOE, about twenty-two yeatH
of age, very black and fliort, not muefl
above five feet high, well made, and »■
a pleasant counten-anee, speaks little <®
no Englifli, but upon being queftioced fl
his prelent or late owner, (Mr. Franc®
Courvoilie) or his comrade HeHor, wiß
in all probability be ealily difeoveredi 4
name may be now changed.
wall deliver the said negroes in Savanna®
or to the Hon. Col. Filhbourn in
lhall receive a Reward of EIGHT DOLj
LARS for each, and the luin of *
FOUNDS will be given on infornianoi
and conviction of tiieir or each of theii
being harboured.
The iubferiher will difpofeof
or joe. Terms to be known by a?p*
tion to Col. Filhbourn, or to
♦ t AMES JACKSON^
BLANK W kTt!
To be ha.d at the Printing-O^ s '