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pefeat of the Fteach, there is still a
gleam of hope remaining, that the
carnage and loss hare not been so great
represented
RICHMOND, February 24.
Monday the 22d inti- being the anni
Verfary of the birthday of our belov
ed countryman, George .Valdington,
was ufliered ia by 2 morning l'aluce
from a company of artillery, in this
city, under the orders of Major Alex
ander Quarrier. Io the as ernooa, a
number of refpe&ablecitizens dined at
the Swann Tavern, on wpicn occa'ion,
a number of Toasts, expreflive of the
fentiinents and feelings of the company,
were given, each accompainied by a
ditenarge of cannon.
Copy of * letter from captain William
Thompfcrt, of the fckoeuer Br nkeri
est tit place , to a friend in town,
datadGrenada.'December 21, 179?.
** "You will no doubt be a little
furprife'd to receive a letter from me as
0 prisoner; it is really a fuel, and for
what l cannot account, I was captur
ed on the 18th in ft from Vlartinico
bound to Trinidad, a Span! h port and
neutral, by his majetly’s (loop of war,
Favourite; my men were ail taken;
from oil board, and a set of ruffians
put in their placet fi'nce my arrival
here I am taken on ihorc as a prilaner,
ihough not closely confined and akufed
hy all who condescended to speak to
*ie. I am prevented from ailing in
beaalf of myfelf er owners, from That
native or cause I cannot guess, but
will advise you as toon as a cermina
tio,n takes place, and beg that you may
have this infer ed in your public and
ufeful-newfpapers, rha* the public may
fee the frieudlhip ihcaa to our colours
by our r.ew ally.
Ft by nary 15.
It was strongly reported yefeerday,
that letters from a person high in office
at Philadelphia, have been received in
town by the lad mail, containing an
account that our Brittfii treaty has been
returned without a raUJn ntim. It
was added, th.it the king of FntrUnd
has declared in council, his refolmlon
retain poflrflion of the wedern pods
for forae time longer. An unfuccefsful
attempt lias been made, by the editors
1 of the Telegraphe. to trace this renert
to its source. Mr. Chace jun receiv
ed a letter from hi* father, now in Phi
ladelphia, mentioning as a report
there.
If George 111. has in reality, as much
geographical knowledge, as to be sc
attainted with the Situation and value
l of the wetlern pods, ha a. exceeds
the (Vile of informv'o* ir for->e 8r ;
1 lift minide r s have poffelfed A late
Duke of Neutcadle was. for many
years, m’mifter of George *t During
the latter part of his life, he was, as
Dr Shebbeare, in his letters to the peo
pie of England, tells ik, greatly sur
prised to hear that cape 'Breton wax an
Hland ! ‘.Vnen the Englfh conquered
the place, they actually ftm some car
goes of fra coal to it from England,
for the life of the troops, though the
island has that article in great plenty.
CHARLESTON. February 23.
Yederday arrived the brg Dolphin
Newman, Turks Idand t diy; snow
pattern, 8001, Neu» York 8 days.
On the 23d of January lad, in lat.
23. 12. being then to u'indutird of
Turks Island, capt Newman ums
brought to by a 20 gun Ihip belonging
«o the French republic, the cap'ain of
which informed cant. Newman that
be was from Cape Francois: and that
five days before he failed, a fleet of t -
fail of the line, with 10. coo troo.s,
bad arrived there from France.
AUGUSTA, March 10.
The accounts of the atflion between
the French and Adrian armies on the
other fide rite Rhine, are so very differ
«nt and contradiftory, that no accurate
\ Hatament ran be made. The French
papers mention the bufinef* as a retreat
urged by prudential motive*. The
Englifll pipers hive mentioned the re
treat as the confcquence of a total de
feat of die French army : But we ob
serve that the English papers now men
tion this event in terms very different
from those which contaiaed the firfl in
formation on this.fubjecl ; and ill com
paring dll the accounts be have been
able tocollecl, we think ourselves war
ranted in fayiitg. that no verv decisive
action had taken place a: the time the
London exaggerated account was pub
lifted. For the news of a defeat so
d«*dful must have occasioned confide
rable uneasiness in the national iegifla
ture of France, where we find the re
trograde movements of the French
troops lightly spoken of, and where we
find the fame confidence in the 't.ccsls
of their arms, which has so uniformly
ciiaraflarifed tlut great republic. So
that the great noise xnd ostentatious
accounts iu England, of the jnpiral
lelled fueflefs ofths Aa'lrians, fceim in
x great measure to be t.ie e'ffei of the
prolific illvemion oftne miniitry, .ni»*e
effectually to knpofe on his mlje:ty , -
dutifnl and loyai fujjjects, and .0 dilli
pate those gloomy cioads which appear
hovering over :h« Britift government.
The bills before the Britift parlia
ment for preventing public meetings
have occasioned among he people un
common uneaituols, and almcit oniyer*
fil oppofitioa Mr. Fox has observed
that these bills completely ebolift and
fab vert the Britift eonftitutlon Many
strong resolutions have been palled by
different focletie* on this fubjett, and
the people appear determined to make
a vigorous effort to regain their liber
ties, or at leall to l ive tbemfdf es from
absolute ,'lavery. In an extraordinary
meeting of the Wing Ciub. where the
Duke of Bedford presided, several re
folutimis were paEed, exprefilng in
tlrong uhJ manly terms their utter ab
horrence of these bills and earnestly
recommending to he peopto to meet,
and publicly to protell again!! them,
-iiiQiUr uieut'ugs have been held by
other foctetius, particularly by those
concerned in printing Uoafes; these
bills being, calculated totally to dellroy
the liberty of thepref’s with the liberties
of the people Incoufequence cf these
and other appeal arcs* unpleasant tehi*
Majefiy and 'he mmiftry the troops
deliined for *hs VVeft Indies have been
re landed in England and reviewed by
his tr.ajeltv, vrno in returning from r
review cf them was attacked by the
mob, and narrowly escaped with his
life ? the captain of the guard which
attested him having been"killeJ The
mob t’arreunded 'he palace, the gist*
«f which they forced open with fledges
and ran bai l. Where iift .ir'oances and
dilcontent so genera!, produced by rei
terated injury and 'ufult a ill end, no
b imm being cm dev.fc, they appear to
be a prelude to that revolution which
hut long b„*n predicted, and which
alor.e can save from ruin and slavery
the Britifl) nation.
Oa Thurfdaylttf* man was found dead
a little below Volhtnn’ , on t'i» Savarcuii
road, about toor 12 milts from •ngu'la
On examination it a >p»ared that Id* throat
war cut, and t'ia’ he had received one or
two (tab* with a knife or fwonj: From cir
puuiAances it is conjectured that he was
mirdered by one Ho the* rhcimp.'bn, with
wcomhe was afdtow »ra el'ir, and in 1
quarrel which it appears i.ad raken place
between *V mon the road, and which Vn
said was occasionedhv m *"ual iirovdcu on,
rhotnofon w#snvrfncJ and tJus, s..d au
eirCU'ellancefof ftroeg fulpicion,o« Sunday
la o rva- M'sinioed in tv,, pin..
Pipers bv t,•# i.nt mail conratnUrtie im
portant intelligence—'vc Hatter ourfe'.ve*
that in a ft w weeks the spring arrivals
from Europe will iuing os news highly in
terdfingto the feelings of humanity—r.ews
of i.r*,->cViiuis ‘or a genera! peace with
a)! hr beliigeron: powers.
Second feSlion of the Judi
ciary fyflem of this ft ale.
Ann be it fitrsher enafted. Fhatihe
(fate lhail be divided into three diftricb
in Hie following manner, so wit:—The
counties of C tmden, Gleuu, M'lntolb,
Liberty, Aryan, Chatham, Etfingham,
and Bullock, /lull form theeaflern cir
cuit.
The counties of Scfiven, Burke,
Montgomery, Waflnngton, Warren,
Richmond, Columbia and Jetferfon,
111 <ll form the middle circuit
And she counties of Greene, JackOn
FrankLu, Hancock, Og,eihorpe, Hlbert,
Wilkes and Lincoln, /hall form the
weftern circuit.
The manner of holding, and
time of Court r in the fe
deral Difinch.
In the Ealbrn Circuit.
On t:ie firft dm of March and Sep
tember in etch year, in the county es
Glenn. On the leventh ti»y* of March
aud September, in Camden- On rha
fourteenth days of March and *eptem
ber in M‘!ntofh. On the twenty iirlt
of March and September in Liberty.
On the thirtieth of March and Septem
ber in Bryan. Oa the fourth of April
and October, in Chatham. On the
ninth of May, and twenty fourth of
October in Effingham. On the fifteenth
of Mtr and thirty firft of October in
Bullock
In the Middle Circuit.
On the ill day of March and Sep,
tember in the county of Burke On
the 14th of March and Srpr-mber in
?criven. On the 2sd of March 2nd
September in Montgomery On the
2 8th of March and September in Wa/h
iiigton On the nth of April and
October in Jeiferfon. On the i6t!i of
May and 17th of Oitober inWarren.
On the 73d of May and November in
Richmond On the 15th of June and
1 ath cf Dec in Oohimbi*-
in the Wejtern Circuit.
CM the ift of March and Sep'emSir ja
Hancock Jn the 141a o' ttroh and
September in Tr ten On the a8; 1 >f
xl irc'n and dep vbnbit m Jgletnorpe
O 1 tiie 4rn at' April St Jctober in |acc
fan June 11 mos April mi J .to'o~.
n Frarticiin. On the ißcao'f \pril and
J;t m Albert. Oa 'he a,t;i of Aon! Sc
October in Wilkes- On t srh of May
and Noveauer in L'.icoin
My dear Sir,
I MR VitiC was more fnrprifed than
by *!»iei*ving in the SouMiem Ccntinel
of the 4th diy of February lift a let
ter of mine addtelfeJ to the Jovcrnof,
which V2S tent you in coit iJence; If
you hud refl.clcd one moment on thS
I'ubjeJ, you certainly could not have
got yo;sr coulent to its publication: on
ly think of the
might bare erpofed me by Inch a pro
ceedmg. iia* not Hi, Rx©?!h*ucy been
the molt# gno.i it fit usd fort of a ‘‘nan
in iht world : His vengeance alone'
would not have readied me, induSita
blyx’ne Major General of the eastern
diilriA who begot his exceilctscy, poli
ticaily, feels hirafejff injured by any
mam daring to lay that his child is not
capable of dl,charging the duties he
has thought proper to afiign him.
The following is-the copy of a fe
contl address to the Governor, which
I now positively declare contes to you
in aontidcnce, therefore cannot suppose
it potlibie that it will ever be exhibited
to public view —you know I am the
Governor’s neared neighbour and belt
friend in the walks of private life, and
l would not for the world wi£l him to
thin! me hit political enemy.
To 5. D. Augusta J< H
*• This exprejfion and fool, art fj-
rr oninous.
Slit,
IN mv lad I printed t; - ) yea in as
fair characters as 1 was capable, the
melancholy incapacity tinder which
you labored to perform the duties of the
o£ce of fii ft h ‘g'flrete, and va* hope
ful that some impreWons would have
been made Sufficiently linking, to bring
abaut a confciotfncfs that you were
unequal to t'ta tad; of governing a free
people, bjk it appears that you are yet
t *lk>UL,& from your pertinacity in hold
ing .be office, that ns one trait of ier.ti
b'dity ;• contained in the mamials of
which you are eontpofed —I was of
opinion that the interrogatories eethi
u,,ed in my lull very friendly coturnu
meat.on, would prompt you to enquire
how far your capacity would warrant a
continuance in >ffice. and to respond,
if noi to myfelf, fti»y nir country latis
fadoryly, on shfr.afcfr'l b’HaU- I my
hop* iti this particular isvam, you hare
Continued in office until this !eta moment
Sc .ith a governmental grace peculiar to
ycurfe’.f, without evenutnting an inten
tion that yon wilhed your little Chatham
idol to point out another character who
■vould dothsdutiesof'heofncewith more
advuntsgeiothe community! in addition
to this I am convinced that the little
man is disappointed, for he aiTbred, that
the only tcuure by which you have
heretofore held the teins of govern
ment. was a confidence in the junto,
that you would fauflion the repeal law,
and then resign to gire way for some
taaa with whom the people would be
at Start tolerably fatisfied. Ycrt&rday
you gave your alfent to the repeal lac,
and to day it is whispered among your
awn tribe,—l wonder whv Irwin has
not sent in his refignatien before now ! 1
In Jod’s name can he think of holding
the office longer ? He has now done
me deed for whteh purpo e alone he
received the appointment, and surely
we may expert his refigaatim ” So far
hr, you have rerlly out g.-naralled the
little general himfelf and I Shrewdly
fufpert you think by this time the Gu
bernatorial cap firs you very well If
this is your (landing, it behoves me
to a(k a few more quertiont on the score
of your fitnefs for the office of gover
nor You mart know, Sir, that the
governor of the rtate of Georgia is de
dared to. be commander in chief by
the constitution; of what import are
these words? Why surely that the
mart wboexercifes such an office Should
have experience in tartkks, either the*
oretica'.'y or experimentally, and be
thereby enabled to protert the citizens
and their property from insult and in
vasion. I will take the liberty of alk
mg you, Sir, how you will difeharge
this duty ? Has your reading furnifhed "
you with so much of this science as
will enable you to detect errors in any
inferior officer, if they lhould be com
mitred ? or is your perform! protvefsa*
dequate to the expefted exigencies of
the rtate, considering us as an exposed
frontier ? With refpert to your science,
that is, the lights you may have deriv
ed from books, they mull, if yon have
anv, be of a very superior quality, as
they have remained with you and been
ripening for upward! of thirty years.
Your personal braver* hud Jiib a
rJou opportunity of bearing its-ls itir
't» is Itt- cod - t '* rvt j
ijri'ji.i «tl \ urie t wJ it lecont-- u.'
to B*l4 t. -* * mre v.> 1 Vere. tr:J a
part y>u took in that leifoti. me owl
peri Idas A n-vict i*er ta vt v.»u •’err
found lir, through the .vine ftruggie.
to be lltueted on a plantation in <ne
county of Uurke, as tenant at will mi
worthy uiail, where you were elteemed
and known to be the nun who adopted
principles ofpojjive <bedio «'Sc '■< re
fijfancethh conduit ivas criminal atfncii
a period, very few good Hen remained
iieufa! in this tmJe of general calami
ty and tnolt unfortunately for you lit.
you vere one of thole very few Your
brothers were urn of courage and
independence, and contributed greatly
to the Salvation of their country by
their early and continued exertions,
bat alas notiiing like tnis can with
propriety be applied to vonrfe'f F r om
thele circurr.lt.mces we are not to ex
pect you to eclipffe ,he immortal Walla
jugem in peribnail valour, neither c.ui
we conclude that your po .er: art equal
to :Ik* fafle yoii have undertaken, uniefs
after ct.'c.uniftaucej Ihould require that
the governor Ihould have nothing to
fay or do, if tit's happens yon wili no
doubt make a bi‘.ilf m «atit figure Tor voiir
fity end do nothing ft; ViV't are certa n!v
equal to nny man’s in the ltare Let
me conjure you fir not to fuffer this
aileuibly to adjourn without receiving
your refignatitul, it is now the eve of
the feilion and you liave no time 'o
loose If you pttrfue a contrary con
dud you will be uufjpported a;td (per
haps) difpifed.
I atn on the usual terms,
Y ours,
ri.M SHARP.
Louisville, Feb. 14, 17*96
YAZOU AN I A.
“PRAY, Sir, let me fee that bill?”
fa id Tim Tickle t’other day to a person
in a tlore on Bread rtreet, who was
paying for a pair of leading lines and
some other articles which he had pur
chafed/ *• by Jupiter,” continued he,
“ it is one of the identical bills which
I paid into the tteulury on citizens
rights, in the fennefiec company, there
is tny name on the back of it ! Now,
Sjr, how did you come by it, I think
I recolJeft to have i’een you at Louif*
vilie,—if I initlake not vot; wis in the
Why yes, replied the Jeal
er.” I am a back country member, and
I mought havt that there for try
pay, but where’s the ha> u of it
“ Bray Sir,” resumed the ether “ did
not you vote for repealing the Yazoo
?” “ Why nutter” rejoireu the
back country member, “ I allow I
mought—And GoJ damn your con
-1 feiencc” fays Tickle, in a very delibe
rate articulation, “ did net you, by
that repeal lock u;> in the treasury ail
tha Yazoo money for the express pur
pf»fe of refunding it, and then you take
i that very money for your blurted fer
vices?” ** Why I suppose,” fays the
ligiflator “ one money is as g >od as
another, and ths trealurer can put in
what has been taken out ” “ Where is
it to came from, my up land financier,”
replies Tickle. “ you know t lie re were
jS.ooo dollars of ths money gotit be
fore the fstting of this lejl alfenibly.
(I hope it will be the lull of the kind)
And now you have taken fi.ooo more,
—how is that to be replaced !—there
is not a copper of any ether money but,
Yazoo, in the treasury, and as for your
infernal double tar, it will not raise
yo.ooo dollars in seven years, much
less replace the money in eight months
which is the time it inullbc demanded
in, or become forfeited, agreeably to
your raScally repeal!” “Mr. Stay
tape ” said the member, addressing him
ftifto the merchant. “I mought as
well take the leading lines along,—
“ Aye ! aye !” said Tickle, “ go and
retaliate upon your brutes what has
been prartiled upon yourfelf. but don’t
drive so unmercifully as the liitle gene
ral, or (by Jove) like him, you will
soon lose a!l your cattle”
IT is circulated as a facl, that the
late legislature did not only enact ah
expo!} facia appropriation law for the
payment of thcmfelves, in the face of
their repeal a.i . but actually received
Yazoo money for their pay before the
appropriation law was ligned or ecu
currtd with by the executive.
“ Well, Jack ! what news from Lou
is vilie” said one gentleman meeting
another in the rtreet a few days ago,
“ more burning” said Jack— 4 * what,
not done yet” replied the other, “O!”
answered Jack, “ this is not burning
according to law, or even repeal , this
is what you may call a Sheer hell fire
burning , —one tolTe' a bundle of trea
fury checks into the fire, and another
bums the enrollment of the Ynzoo act,
which had eluded the general cttnf.a
gration . and was every wayentirl- to
furvivorfhip—v.hat do you think of
these thing" San ?. Wha: do I think qf
ihrf? {7f*nK, '• ‘ ” fa.
: the 'nihS , •’ •»*• 1 h* • >'■' auiiiifi
n , fit ;b ,! »« ' ti::. - f; fvr,
jOllr* *•?/»* cr T 'IB
-.3 4 'r
c'vsfni:&■!■* ■! -i v fv" ’*
Ho h iIK.I th v£ -.IT* wh.!t
i't- r.vrngOf -g , * •' **■>•*»•
ti»e pet-riif **r - - l&- ‘■r.'">ib"ent,
■>nd l"u;>' > ing mat |i« appeal, ' sahai
do you ■ !»•'■• ic if tii<. .h •'»„ •vt- 3d>-
dreilsd to him, he very hastily replied,
“ J—never mind. ’ty de. r ’ wn-~
rant it gvlll Hr* Au:»g enoug'i ■*(•■<? n »
d ad ”
icr Zeno in out next
jij" Bilhop w'.7 *-o- . .a
the C hurch on Sun tidy next.
dHeriff d 'Date*
f y.
Will be Sold,
0«
Court hitujr in ‘Vahineju c<wt]
6JJ j acre - fan-1
in Washington coiimy, chereo; feplt
Sellions nows livesjf executed rtr t;.d
property of laid Sellions, to fr 1- e “he
feds in the case, flute vs. Sesfoav;
bounded s e. by Glenn’s land, and e.
bv* Stanford’, laud.
20 0 acrt-1 faiiu oti
Cov* pen creek, in laid count y, ad; lin
ing Magnifier's land; txrr U ;ed a" *i;er
property of David Evans, to util/
John Canady.
20 0 acred faiid i;t
said county ; exernteJ a* the property
of James Brown, to f.itisfy Ralph Ma
thews, adjoining William Irsin ami
Samuel Hait’s land, on the waters of
tne Ohoopee Condition, cafli
B. HOPSON, s w.c.
VTarch io, i
—■ - - a—i *l "
too njtadit'v f.ife.
WILL BF. SOLD,
At the C*tit uonje in Wafiiitigton, til
the ill Tuefday in Nay next.
j 9 0 acred land in
fil’d county, adjoining the land of Fdw.
Scfiloi a and Wm Toler, attached as
the property ol Benj. Kilgore, to tatiSe
fy benj. Rainey
Conditions cash '
KLIAS NF.AL, C.
i March io 1796.
Tn soLi.,
Jit rfafc>
' And immediate pojfcflion
1 given,
. That large and commodi
ous House and Lot at pre
sent occupied by Ld
i ward Primrose.
N. B. If not fold at pri
vate sale by the ill day of
April, it will then be put
up at Public Auction.
for particulars apply at above.
Iflarch to, i 796.
JO Jat/ard Jleward*
RUV away from the
fubferiher on Monday
the 29th of February last
a negroe man named Mon
day, about 35 years of
age, 5 feet 10 inches high
of a yellow complexion,
long vilfage, and features,
very mwch refemblmg
those of an Indian, walks
leifurly and ere6t and ’Sf
by trade a carpenterter or
joiner. This fellow was
broughtup near Savannah
and brought to the plan
tation of the fubfenber
by the late L. Hall. Ffq.
and it is said he is a little
afflicted with a Rupture.
Whoever will take up laid
negroe and deliver him
to ttoclor Montgomery hi
Augusta, or to the fal*A
feriber in Burke county,
shall receive the above
reward, and all reafonabla
charges. Jofcph Watts,
Muut-V:ilc, March *7ys>