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[VOL. II.J JUGUSTA —PRINTED BY DANIEL STARNES & C®. ' proposals F y PANS El. STARNES & CO. A, tmUikiof Sidfirfthu * vmUj Nrmtfxfot iN THE CITY OF AUGUSTA. TO BE ENTITLED Mirror of the Times. THE universal promulgation of fr tb, ind the general distribution of know- ! ’ are object* of the firft importance in LL’country where liberty has left trace* *x h / r footfteo*, under every government which confult* the h*ppine»« of Man , - n owledge,'” said the Groat Lord Bacon .. is power, united with virtue” it certainly • liberty- Where ignorance reigns there r ; ce triumphs and defpotiina governs. As un become* enlightened authority will he limited & morality rettored—Knowledge A tirtueare the bales of freedom—the one Jsftrufts us in our rights, the other teaches, ns our duties; the firlt thews us how to con jruA the bed possible form of government, he lift requires us to obey it when conflruc ttd. h is therefore advantageous every where, that in a Rtfuhlie it is abfoluretv necefTary thit correct, information fliould be widely JjfTufcd and easily cbtained : For thtrt ’tis tne t ,O f U wll ° g° vern - 7 K V never inten- j 'tonally choose bad leaders or approve wrong aeifurei, yet they are liable to error—give them true details and they will judge cot cs|y_.for on plain grounds the people al nays from juji opinions : whenever they mif tate tlieir own intcrfcfts ’tis owing entirely to want of information in th tv.ary or want (f hoccfty in the fnv. But politi cal information iB not to be acquired without much labour, and few have leisure to study the fyftemt, compare the opinions and pc rufe the p:iges of Locke, Sydney, Gibbon, Hume and Vattel. If an acquaintance with jhr true principles of government and dHtie« sia citizen could be acquired only from huge folios & diffufe treatises, it would be (elilom fought or if fought, the p'ough, the hatchet, and the saw must (land still. Seme cheaper andeafier means of fatisfying curi sfuy and procuring information mufl there fore he looked for; and where is intelligence cheapness and convenience united withrdore advantage, than in the closely printed col umns ot the humble News-paper ? Our toiintrymen appear so well convinced of the ufefuinefs of periodical prints and have so virj liberally encouraged them, that we dtem it unueccflary to insist on their merit, tod almost hesitate to request public patron •gefur another News-paper cflablifliment. ► We can y r mife little except what atten tion, honesty & induflry can perform. The principles of oor Paper, like our own, will be Republican, “ but the fame freedom of opin ion which we claim for ourselves, we wish all other* to enjoy.” Civil and Religious liberty is the birh right of evry man, and lie who will not extend the fame indulgence to all patties, and all fe&, which he willies for his own, is already or delerves to be a lave. To support Religion and morality will be our pride—to encourage literature our endeavor—no communications calculated to do either will be refufed ; no hint will be neglffted. In a free country it is necefTary lh.it the law should he neither vague nor •obown, all public adts of the State leg* ifuture, will therefore be published as they some to hand. Ti.c MIRROR OF THE TIMES will he ®p«tto all who canvass public raeafure with ecency,»ud in examining the condu& o{ individuals, as officers of government—it ®ill know—“ No Party but tr.j Country, No tut truth:' CONDITIONS. I The MIRROR OF THE TIMES will be pubiifhed every Monday, on a royal fhcct of an excellent qualitv, and good i *>?*• •1 he price to fubferbers will be three' dollars per annum, paid half yearly in 1 sdvance. I he price t or advertiiing will be fifty j Cimrs per square for the firfl insertion ; & thirty seven and a half so- each can tinuatien. *’• The paper will be delivered so Town dubferibers at their placet ot abode and t ide ior the country will be d. nc up in packets and delivered at the Post- Office. Lawyers Office. T”L Subscribers having enter fti into partnership in the . act ‘ cc of the LAW, respctftilly ! fl ' rm the public that their Ofr.ce If kc P* on the South side of Broad \ tr . ect » tw n doors above Messrs c , & Co. where all busi ’ ' . Ul die {j ne 0 f tbejr profession ! lI J bc punctually attended to. It 1 eir intenhoa to practice in the '-°uru of Scriven, Elbert, a . rren > Washington, Wilkes, e ■ f-on, Richmond, Greeae St ✓ ' Lincoln, Hancock t° U es * Ss well as in the Federal c. f 1 r ourt « Ihe arrangement ' '‘“n thenr .ssuch that one will f>res* ut at the Office 1 •- oiner it upon tne circuit JOSEPH HUTC HINSON: «i hard h. Wilde. august 38. 4fc Str MIRROR OF THE TIMES. fOR THE MIRROa. MefTrs Starnes & Co,—As n Subscriber I take the liberty to hand you a few remarks, which I will thank you to give place in your paper if you think them worthy of publication. I have for some time been viewing and feeling the great in conveniences and danger that the worthy aud honed part of our citizens are laboring under from the fufpeofion of law, which can anfwcr no purpoie only the views of a few rii fa die ted characters, or thole on the eve of inlolvency ; and l fvar ihere must have been forae of that cast in the legislature at the | time of i;» pafiage, else it would not have been carried into died So readily. 1 fear the child un born will fee! the baneful in. flucnce of an actual ime Terence of the legillaiure between debtor and creditor. Let us take a view of the misguided and mis placed cornpalliou they liave for a part of our citizens. The mer chant and thole who are indebt* ed to citizens of another liaic what a deiparate situation they » arc placed in, their persons anti propeity are at the mercy of their creditors and a prey to Fe deral Court executions, while two thirds of the debts due from citizen to citizen in the btatc of Georgia are barred ftotn collec tion. The debtorj, rcgaidlefs of that innate principle of hon.. efty, that golden ruie, do umo ail men as you would they Jhiuld do unto you, avail themletvca like broken gamblers of that faddy toned Alleviating Law, itnd are pleased with the degrading height they are placed above their cre ditors. Every honed and in dustrious man has to bear the buithen of the idle, the fpecula. tor, aud neaily inioivent par; of the community. From not be mgabie to collect their just dues and demands, alt confidence i» destroyed in this state, and a ge neral depravity taking place, a cateleis attemios to thole duties which bind man to man in a state of lociety, which can be al cribed to no othei caule but the | fuipenlion of the faluiaiy taws I formerly in force in this hate, < which fufpeofion I conceive j more dangerous than the Yi zoo ipeculation evei was, lor I have no doubt, should it be continu ed, but it will be a political lpc-< dilation before long. I daily lee the danger that attends it — the people ate more and more anxious to run in debt, and pay nothing'--they wiil fell their cot ton so. call) for twenty fcve or fifty cents less in the hundred than they will in dilcharge of their just debts, pocket the mo. ney and laugh at their cieditors, and will iometimes lay it out for frivolous uses or idle fpeculati -1 on —ihefe are faQs and I believe every day oractiled through the ftate* Do we ever fee a man offering to fell any part of his property with a view to pay his debts ? No, but we fee them of ten wilhing to buy more on a credit. How many orphans estates arc here in this county which have >een fold on a ctedit, and their support and education depend entirely upon the collection of iholc very debts which our bo “ HOLD THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE..” Shakespeare. WEST END OF BROAD-STREET. norabie Law or Constitution breakers (as they ought to he termed) forbids th-* collcQion, ofcourie thole orphans and their efta-es must fuller greatly, and their education entirely neglect ed. Is it reafonabie to fitppofe that property of all kinds should be so high when cotton, our fta pie commodity, is so low ? land, negroes, horfex <Xrc. are as high j as they were when cotton fold j for twenty live cents per pound. I From prefen: appearances I and the relation we hear to £u- j rapeari nations ffbrbids -he idea-i of the prige of cotton being high ; for ion ie time, perhaps tor feve. j rai years, and fbali our laws be fufpeuded that length of time ? | When is there to be an end of j such corruption P Admit cotton ! Ihouid be worth only ten cents ! 1 lay every ho net and indulii- j ovis planter can pay his debts and live better than in almost j any other {'.ate in the Union.— j Some people when they are con. j tiahting a debt have no expec- ! tation or wilh ever to pay it, and are the worthy and iriduL trious to fuffer on that account ? Our crops are very great this ' year, every planter within my knowledge has made, as much as he can well manage, and with ! tolerable economy, admitting j the low prices, can pay their debts or io far as will enable their creditors to indulge them, and leave nothing for the Le giflaiure to ad Upon refpetitng the alleviating !-w. But should they think proper to fuipend the operation of the law again, 1 think it nothing but realonablc that they Ihould third their own wages, and as to p*cu»iary mat. ters dclcend to the level oi their coaftmuants. COLUMBIAN. Columbia county, Not. 18. LATEST FROM PORTUGAL BOS i ON, Nwv. l. By the L»ng Comet, captain Baitlett, Irom Ltlbon Sept. It is said, that British troops were arriving daiiy at Lilbon— | that nothing of moment had ] taken piace between the French j diid the allied armies knee the battle of Talaveta. The following articles ate (elected Irotn tnc papers brought by tiie Comet : Lisbon Sepi. 24,1809. — The head quartets ot utc B;uilh ai- | my is at Badajoz. Ins tup- j poled with the iate t tin force- ] mentj to be auout j fltong, The quanci* ol tiie Pot fugues army is at Caftte Branco, but the iaigcr part ol the troops aie diftnbuted in different places, many ol them at a confiuerabie diilancc. Ihe ; French array near the Tagus is j iuppoicu to be 60,000 ttiong,*i and occupies Piacenza, AL j morez, porno del Arcobifpo, j , and Toledo, under gene ats ! Soult, bebaiiianiand Victor.— , Ncy u at Salatn*»ca. Tne bpa* nifh airoy occuptes poliuons j near the bierra Morena.'* Seville, Aug. s°* A leilcr fro.n get). Venegas, dated 22 i , mentions an aifair, m which a pau ol his airay had been engaged, in which he had kiiled, 99 wounded, and 242 milling. The French had 800 L wrenwm in +w~XKLXij9Bijom kiiied end wwunded—.among the latter, three generals one of j whom afterwaids died at Ma : arid. Sept. i 2, A letter froao gen>- |erai Blake, dated tamp of Pe drol, September 2, mentions tint he had caufcd a supply of provisions and a divjfion of frefh troops to begot into Ge~ | rona.— Badujoz , Sept. 16. -Infor. motion has been received from our bead-quarters at Truxiiio, . dated the rotb, mentioning that t l of 14,000 men is at Salamanca ’ j and us vicinity, fronting the ar -1 my of the marquis de ivoir.ana, I now commanded by general j Mendizabcl. Soult has his bead-quarters !at Palancia. Mortier lias his ; at Taievera. Molina, Aug. 30. A junta had i b&en cltabhlhed at Siguenza, ito acclcratc the pairioiic and j general armament. We arc \ | frequently engaged with small French detachments, Londom Oct. 2. Mr. Preceival fuccceds ihc Duke of Poitlaud, and so re. tains the office of Chancellor ; of the Exchequer. Mr. R. Dundas fulceeds Lord Caltiere«*gh, as Secretary of state for war and colo nies. Oct 5. Lord M«lvil!e has been lent for from Scotland by his ma jesty’s command, and fie is ex pected in twon early next week. Lord Harrowby will receive the leal of the foreign depart ment, as soon as Mr. Canning is able to go to levee. Tie Duke of Portland was conlidered in a dangerous state yesterday. It is intimated that Bona parte has made a valuable pre sent to an Außrian minilter, and from thence, speculations are made by each party, some think it augures peace ; others, j that war will rather be the con- . fequence —ineie speculations 1 The armies on e3ch fide, a» may naturally be luppoled, are kept in rcadinefs, and the ftiong holds reinforced, •Accounts from Vienna as late as the 19th ultimo, are ii lent ©u the prolongation of the | arinduce, which teimiuatcd the aoii); but letters from Siraf j burg of the a*d, publilhed in | the gazette ot Rotterdam, state ! that it was prol®nged lor one i month j and ihat hoftihtics fiiail not recommence until fix wetks after the notice fhail be given of an intention to recommence holtilc operations. The German papers con ; tain 44 a proclamation from the j j emperor of Auliria ; which by j no dieiois breaths the language * of delpondency \ on the con. I trary,mere is a Ipirit ot lirm ■ n els 6c independence throughout the whole of it, which proves i that the emperor Francis is deter. , ( mined again to try the fortune j ;of arms rather than lubmu 1 j to difgraccfu! and humiliating terms.” It is laid South Beverland is nearly abandoned by the French , troops, & that at Antwerp very i lew remain; whether theft: I troops arc sonc towaids Au t MONDAY, November 27, 1303. *“**•*•*■'•■*-•« -'■» wrinnWA *. Mrxjuss. Wmcj*» ; uria or Spain, is uncertain. The dilcafe at Walchcren amonfcft tue British, is fair! »o have been caused by drinking large draughts of {lagnant wa ter, after the body had unde-* gone much fatigue. Those who were firff; taken, used to drink the gin separate ; but those who mixed it, escaped the disease. The fickncfs be* ‘ gins to ilacken its fatal effefch NASHVILLE, (77n.) Oct, 20; To record the untimely end of a brave and prudent officer, a kar^* i this column of the Clarion is ush ered to the world in black. Ou the night of tiie 10th Inst. Mkjuwe* Ther Lewis Escj. governor gene ral of LJpper Louisiana, on his way to Washington city, came to tho bouse of Mr. Grinder near the In-? \ ilian line in this state —sailed for his supper and some spirits, of which he partook and gave some to h:s servants—Mr. Grinder not being at home, Mrs. Grinder reti red A oih« kitchen with her children, aud the servants (alter the gover nor went to bed, which ho did in good order, went to a stable about three hundred yards distant to sleep —no one m the house with the governor-—and some time before midnight Mrs. Grinder was alarm ed by the firing of two pistols in the house—she called to the ser vants without effect—and at ih« appearance of day light the ser*. vain* came to the home when the governor said he had new done for himself—they asked what, and he said he had shot himself and would die, and requested them to bring him water, ue then Dying on the floor where lie expired about seven o’clock in the morning of the lltln He had shot a bail that grazed thg top oi his head and another ttrrougf) bis intestines, aud cut his neck, arm and ham with a raaor. When in ins best senses he spoke about a trunk of papers that he said would be of great value to our govern* incut. He had been under tn« in. flunnee oi a deranging malady for about six weeks, tue cause ot whit U is unknown, unless it was from a protest to a draught which he drew on the secretary at war, which ho considered tantamount to a disgrace by goverument. in the death of governor Lewis the puhii* belild toe wreck of one ol the noblest of men—lie was a pupii of the immortal Jefferson—by 1 him he was reared —oy nun »m won instructed in the tour of the scien ces— k y hiuu lie was introduced to public lilt, when hi* enterprising soul, great botanical knowledge, a** cute penetration and peuonai cou rage soon, pointed o u i as the most proper person to toflQiiiand a pro jected exploring party to the ooria west coast of the American conti. newt-—he accepted jnc *trd u ons command on the condttton that ha might take Mr. Claikc with him— they started ; the best wishes ot the American people attended ihe m# j Alter mu absence ot lwu year#> to us of anxious solicitude, we were cbeertd with the joyful return of our countrymen. A new world had been explored——additional know, ledge in »!l tlic sciences obtained, ! at a trifling expense of blood and | treasure. Ihe voice of fame echo, ed tiie glad tidings through the ci vilised world—ihc name of Lewis was the theme ot universal praise. The national legislature voted a complimentary donation to tins brave little bond. Scarcely had the governor time to pay his respects to a widowed mothtr, befoie he was again cal led into publick service, iho territory of Upper Louisana had been torn to pieces by pa/ty I feuda, no person could be more j proper to cairn ueot —he appeared and ail was quiet* The limit assigned this notion do not admit ot a p«rticulv sD i f [No. 59.]