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Ai\ ACT rt.'.icr.u an aft, enu iffci, • i act t ) alleviate the con diii m of Debtors —psff’d the 2id day cf D ‘c mber, 1808. 1. Bio it enacted, by the Senate and Houfe cf Reprefentatives of the State 0] Georgia in General AJfsmbly wet and by the authority cf the fame, That where execution has iffued or may iffje on judgments already had and obtained, or that mav be had and obtained after the puffing of this law, the defendant or defendants . may ft Jp the fale of property, by l * paying one third of the amount of Ik vjgment, debt and colts, and by ft > ring good and Efficient fecurity u ‘• the Clerk, Sheriff, Coroner or I ult ice, as the cafe may be, for the itimare payment of the balance of thejudg-m nr, intereft and cofts,at the expiration of the time for which this law was paff-d. 2. And be it furl her enabled, That tliVs law (hall not extend to prevent t e recovery of Taxes, or affedl ac tons founded on torts and wrongs. T-?. And be it further enabled, That n ® judgments fhall bear intereft. 4. And be it further enabled, That f this Jaw Hi all continue and be in full b pJ<\rcc and eft dt until the 25th De cember, 1810. 5. And be it further enabled , That no cf urr, officer or officers (hall be permitted to entir into any rule, fo as to authorize them to receive any K other twft than the one third as pointed out by iheabve recited ad, ua 1 i's final ct lledion. 6. , And be it further enabled, That ••inj ail ca!es where the debtor will ayonc third ( f the debt due to his, „ her or their creditor or creditors, and give gyd fecurity for the pay ment of the balance, it fhall exon ♦ rate them from being lued during the continuation of this ad. 7. And be it further enabled, That where one third has or may be paid prior to the 25 h December 1809, thst then and in that cafe, the debt or fhall not be compelled to pay any ether third of the amount of princi pal and intereft recovered on judg ments until the iff day of May 1810. At which time he (hall pay one half the fum then clue. 8. And be it further enabled, That the Trrafurer lhall not be autheri fed t > ifiiie his execution agairft a r.y purchafer of Fractional Surveys for mere than ore third of his, her or their bonds, where fuch aforefaid debt lhall become due, when there ha, bttn already one third paid, or imy be paid, by the 25th of De cember, 1809 ; that then and in that cafe, the debtor or debtors, /hail not be compelled to pay any ether third untili the firft dy of May, 1810. 9. And be it further enabled, That no ca. fa. ts at has been cr may hereafter be ilTued lhall be executed or aded on provided the defendant or defendants in judgmeat IMI comply with the requtfitions of this abl, or give up property fuffi;ient to fatisfy faid debt agreeable to this - A U<ri • 10. And be it further enabled, That if any leeurity taken in virtue of this act hath good grounds to bcl e.ve that the defendant for which he, fhe or they may be bound, hath removed or absconded, or is about t:> remove or aoicond from the county, and makes oath thereof be foie any judge, jullice of the Inferior court, or jullice of the peace, fuch 1 1 curity may proceed againft his, her or their principal, as in cafes of aitachme m. 11. And bs it further enabled , Tha: nothing con.aincd in this ait (hail operate upon or be conftrued to iff wt any contract which lhall be entered into after the 25th day of December, 1809. 12. And be it further enabled, That the ad paffed the 21ft day of December, 1808. entitled “ An ad to allevia condition of debtors and afford them temporary rei ef,” be and the fame is hereby repealed. 13. And be it further enabled, T hat this ad fhalinot be conftrued to ex onerate any fecurity which have been given under the above, recited ad, or the ad entitled “ an ad to alleviate the condition 6f debtors and afford them temporary relief/* puffed 23J day of May, 1808. 14. And be it further enabled, That in all cafes where property Hi ill be fold by virtue of any execution and fuch property (hall fell for one third part of the original judgment, one third part of the coft, and one third part of the intereff, the defendant or defendants ffvffl bear liberty to flay any further proceedings thereon by giving fecurity i’n conformity ro the requ.Gcions of this ad, for the re maining two thirds of fuch judg ment, intereff and coft ; and t the property fhall fell for more than will be fufficient to pav rh* one third as aforefaid, the overplus fhdl be returned to the defendants, m their g’virg fecurity as a f on*fa and. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT & GEORGIA EXPRESS. ATHENS, DEC. 23. Extracts from Ccngrefs . In Senate. —The bli to repeal an ad, entitled if an ad to fuipend for a limirtrd time the Recruiting Service,** was read a fecund time. The refolution approving the conduct of the Executive in ;efuf ing to receive an* Anther commu nication from Mr. Jack lon, the Brit fh Minifter, w.-.s rta 1 a th.rd time ; and, without debate, 1 n the motion of Mr. Goodrich, w ,t decid ed by yeas and nays ss follow : Yeas —Meffrs. Bi ad icy, Bre nr, Condit, Ctawford, GUiard, Ger man, G’.hs, Gilman, Grif wold, Lambert, Leio, Me g>, Mat thewfon, Parker, Pope, Reed, Smith of Md. Sumpter, Turner— -20. Nays —Mtffrs. Goodrich, ll.il houfe, Loyd, Pickering— 4. [Abfenc on th ; s vote M ffrs. Anderfon , Bayard, CTcamplin, Frank lin, Robmfon, Smith of New Fork, Tail, Thrufton, and IT'bitejidcs ; of whom thole in Italic have not ap peared in their feats during the pre fent ftffi >n. There is one vacan cy in the ffare of Delaware, occa lioned by the death of Mr. White. The bill to prevent the abule of the privileges and immunities en tjyed by Foreign Mm.ftrrs within the United Spates, was ordered to be engrafted for a third reading without delate. The bill fu/plemen:a! to the atff extending the right of lcffrage in the Indiana Territory was rtoid the third time and p<-ff and. The bill to repeal the aeff for fufpending for a limited time the Recruiting Service was read a third time j and, on motion of Mr. Brad ley, the further coi fnlcrarion of tine bill was ordered to be peftponed to the firft day of Auguft next. House cf Representatives. December ii. — lhe following gentlemen com pole the committee of Poft Office and Poft Road?, to which has been referred a number of pec Tons and refuludo.a on the fubjedt of Puff Roads: M ffrs. Rhea, (T.) Helms, Thompfon, Defha, Sti-.fjrd, Calhoun, Troup, Morrow, Davenporr, Chittenden, Goldfb ifbugh, Whitehall, Potcer, J. Sin ch, Upturn and Wiifon. On motion of Mr. Bacon, Re - f jived, That a committee be ap pointed for the purpofe of enquir ing whether any and what altera tions or amendments are r.ecefiut-v to be made in the ad entitled “A.i ad to promote the progrefs of ufe ful arcs, and to repeal the ad here tofore made for that purpofe ;** and that faid committee have leave to report by bill or otherwife. 1 On motion of Mr. Montgomery, Refolved, That the Committee of Commerce and Manufadures be in ftruded to enquire into the expe diency of extending the relief con tained in the prov ft ms of the ad entitled “ An ad for the rerruffi ;n of certain penalties and forfeitures and for other purpofes,” paff-d the 28. h June, 1809, to cafes where the introdud on into the United S ates of Oaves forcibly expelled from the iff md of Cuba, with the F ench inhabitants thereof, has been from places ocher than the iftand of Cuba, and that they have leave to report by bill or otherwife. On motion of Mr. Bacon, the Houfe proceeded to confider the refolution preferred to him relative to duels, challenges, &c. which was referred to a committee of the whole Houfe. A paper was received from the Senate, by Mr. Otis, their fecretary, in the form of a j aim refolution ap proving the condud of the Execu tive in relation to the refufal to re ceive any further communications from Mr. Jackfon. The refolution was read a firft andffcond time, referred to a com mittee of the whole, and made the order ot the ‘day for Thuffday next. December 14, —Mr. M c Kim, after a few observations, in which he declared the oi jed of this morion to be to countervail the reftridions impofed by foreign nations on our commerce, laid upon the table the following refolutions : Refolved, That the Committee of C mmeree and Manufadures be inftruded to enquire into expedi ency of prohibiting by law the im portation in foreign (hips or veffcls of sli goods, wares and merchan ci.ze, not of the growth, produce or manufadure of the country to which the ftiip belongs, excepting in the (hips of fuch epuntries as by permanent regulations permit our ihips and veffcls as freely and bene ficially as their own, to import into their ports and territories the pro duce and manufadures of foreign countries. Refolved, That the committee of Commerce and Manufadures be inffruded to enquire into the ex pediency of laying an additional impoft duty on diitilied fpirits im ported in foreign fhips or veffels from ports or countries in which American veffcls are not permitted by permanent regulations to a fair participation in fuch trade. Extra SI of a letter from a Member of Ccngrefs to bis Friend in this place, dated IVaJbington , December 9. ts This Itflion threatens to be tempeftuous—curftrp is in fight of a lee-fhore, and wind and ride are againft us -but as we have a goed Pdor, I do not yet defpair of the fhip, akho* fome of her crew may be loft, and many of them in a fine cf mutiny. We have been in fef fion two weeks—ail is yet peace an! qYetnefs. Wren the Com mittee on foreign relations report it will be figoal for battle. Sir H has been the political fvvmdi.ng of Can* ning through his man Erjkine i:i/re affur of the arrangement i-it fpriog. and fuch the recent infamous joc keying condud of Jackfon in txhe late nrgociation, that the pu iV of the country is aim'd up to war heat, and I exped a ftrong war par ty will appear in Cong re fs. Mr, Giles’s motion in the Senate to fup port the Executive, in the condud relative to [a kfon, paff.d ytft'rday to a third reading — Nays, Pictur ing, Loyd , Hillhoufe and Goodrich . On Monday Pickering will make art oration on the fuhj d—how it will fare when it comes down to cur houfe will be known in a few days. “ Our wifrff politicians a r e in a puzzle to know what are the views of the Ef?giiffi Miniftry refpedi g this country : Some fupp v fe that they calculate fo highly upon rhe ffrength of their party among us, that they ha/e fent Jackfon over to give a fi lifhing ftroke to the f * ration of the States and the ov “ throw of the Governmen*. Tht4 undoubtedly calculate largely up *0 their ffrength and numbers, ami they have a right fo to do, when wliole ffates like Maffachufe.ts an l Connrdicut come forwird bv their leg-fi* tires in.Qppofirion to thehws of the Union, as in f.he cafe of iho Embargo j and bolides they km) / they have expended much money and intrigue to bring abotr fuch purpofe. t believe it has coft them as much money ro gain a prepon derance in the public fntim m in this country as to fubffd ze anv of the European powers to quarc 1 with P'rance-—There have n >- thing to do but to hire the Ki g and Court—the people, being ill es muff follow— their people knows n >- thing of Party. Here the people take an intereff, and become par ties ot courll* am j ;r?ty muff o giined to carry rhetr pur puff, wh h makes it a flow and expenfr * work, in which a multitude c t lies muff be propagated about Fren: influence—the devouring anti m; of Bonaparte and ag/iift our <0 r Government, befides patnp .!e . ex per, five newfpiper eftaDlifnm:.i - &c.” Raleigh, Nov. 27 —An o bligirg correftrondent nfirms i.s that General Wade Hampion arri ved at Afhvilie, Buncombe cou r on the 14th if:ftanc, which piucc he left the next morning on his way to the American army at Natchez. htar. OfT Of courfe, the rumor oi his death is falfe. Balimre , December 7. By the arrival of the failing, brig Robert, capt. Spafferd, the Editor of the American has been o bligingly furntfhed with a fde of Al tona papers down to the 5.7 th Oc tober, in 33 days from Tonnirgrn. Alton a, October 27. Extrabl of a letter from Paris , dated Qblcber 18. “We are allured that the empe ror will rt main at the caflle of Foun tainbleau until the middle ct De cember, when he will depart / t>r Spain and Portugal. The cattle of Marrac, near Bayonne, is alreadv fitted up for the , reception of the emperor.” “ it is faid that the guards, a part rr whom have been on their match bi nre th 15th cf O&cber, t r get her wih the corps of Marlhals Oudmoi* Marmont and the duke cf Abraa tfcs, will go to Spain,