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[VOL. ll.]
AUGUSTA- PRINTED BY DANIEL STARNES & Co. WEST END OF BROAD-STREET,
SHERIFF’S SALE.
On thefirft Tuefday in Jul
next, at the Market House in th<
City of Avgujla between the usu
cl hours ,
WILL BE SOLD,
Fifty acres of land with the i n;> rover,ien
thereon, lying on Rackv creek, in Rich
mon'J county, adjoining Lids nf Cilaffcock
and M D»de, now occupied !>y Win, *Vl‘Tyre
kfq Jfo four negroes, Cloc and her three
chilJreu.
Alf • lot No 4, in the city of Augusta
hou>d ff on the East hy MTitolh Screed, on
the W fti»y Mis Flint’s lot, o.i the South by
ots lelouging toCapt/iin Toole, <llll on the
jfc.rih hv the hay or river ftr-er, at prefeut
occupied hy Miff s Barrett .Sims.
If* 8o acres of land in Richmond coun
ty. w-th the improvements thereon, adj in
i*gH M Tyre and M. Silvcrd, at prefeut
occupied by jo n D’ tinignac F.fij.
aifc One hundred and fifty acre* rs land
in Richmond county, in or near the loa n
of Harriihurg, levied on as ih* property of
George Pears *n ; bounded by lands of Col.
AHlcdge, John Carter dec aud the Ssvan
■ah river
The alwre property levied on to fatisfy
an execution in fa /or of the Ex’rs of Oliver
Bowen dec. against Wen, IVTTy rr, Fzekicl
Harris, Win. VI. Cowles, John D'Ar.iignac
George Pearson, and Frizzell M Tyre, and
poiuted out by the Plaintiffs attorney.
ALSO,
One fifty acre lot of land (be the fam
nv>re or lei’s) lying and bcinj; in the Town
Ihip of Augusta, and known by lot No. 37
bounded on the South by James Edwards,
& Nicholas Deleigie, on the Weft by Walter
Leigh, on the North by Lindl'ey Coleman,
and on the East by John Course Eftj—faid
lot or parfel of land levied on as the pro
perty of Wm. Riley, to f.itisfy au execution
in favor of Emanuel Wamberfec.
ALSO,
A tra& of laud in the county of Rich-
Ittond on Butler's Creek, containing 8073
acres, more or lefa, including the Grist and
Saw Mil», adjoining Seaborn Jones’ Mill
tra<ft and orber,.
Alio, one other tradt adjoining the above,
containing 70 or 78 acres, more or less, in
e uduigthi: Dwelling Houle, W icrcon A
Hsther formerly refi led.
And one other traift containing 33 acre
prune Oak and Hickory Laud at New
Savannah, adjoining Twiggs, Rowell and
Mr*. Dtwfoa
Alt > the following N -groes, to wit, Jenny,
Jim, Billy, John and Sarah.
ANo, three Oxeu, one carry lug, yoke and
chain— all o( which is levied on as the pro
perty ol the *-ftar*f ( ,f the late Archibald
Hatcher, to fansfy th« (olloWtinr executions
agaiaft faij eda e, vie : One in favor of Jo
frp'i Hu chiafon, one in favor «f J *hn Hill,
«Cj oue in f-iV(*r of Jones 4c. Seinmes
one in favor of Alhton ami Carrie, to the
V Crawford, oae in favor of Bcnja
F. Harris, oae in favor of Lud
H rri> & Co. one in favor ot John Wilfoa
vephew »ne in favor of John Vlicintofli
“ vivi g assignee, one in favor of Edward
JCwdlui behalf of Vol. V/„lk»r & Wife,
°ne in (avor of George G. y, one
? avi>r °. J°hn Ravage, one iu favor of
■ rauel Wigfall,one in favor ot Miles to the
11 c ot Scott, one in tavor of Thomas Knap
cu, ouc in favor of Thomas Gardner & Co
in iavor of Bacon & Malone, one in
. iVor ® ir, ett & hi ns, one in favor nf
' m % tor Gilbert, aud ouc in favor of Geo-
Randolph.
Condition Cash
P DONALDSON, Sheriff
May *8
CAUTION
ALI, pet fin* whom it may concern, are
fi ' d,hat ' haVeri R ht nf «low«r
Much 1 certainly Hull claim) in and , 0 a
» , P lne la »d. in Richmond county, on
?“; Cfe * k - ere (fled a W
?! lu roptr,y of m ) r d * c husband, Ar
, 1 and which •» advcrtifed
* * >y the Sheriff of Richmond county,
,: r ’,; n ** h r «° purchase, particularly, will
»«olle(ftthM notice.
M, 9 2». M“ r 'J Hatcher.
Sheriff's Sale,
WILL BE SOLD,
n 'he first Tnrsdav in J uly next,
tiie Market. House, in the
C|t y Augusta, between the
hours:
One House and Lot at Mount
"°n, the Lot containing one a
bounded on the south by
r °*d s'redt, on the east by spring
* tr t!ft, on the tio 'h *nd west by
oti hehuigintf to Joel Hdl, and at
P rc «rni occupied bv S-imugl Alim,
I,e *hjve levied on ua ilie pro.
P e tty of said Jorl Hill, to satisfy
J" exc cutiun in favor of Joseph
t QUins.
.. P. DONALDSON, SU’ff.
May i4 #
Shctiffs Blank Title*
or Ule at thi* Oi&cc
MIRROR OF THE TIMES.
3ir Francis Burdett’s
L E T T ER,
To his Conjiituents.
Gentlemen The House
of Commons having palled a
vole, which amounts to a de
claration, that an order of
theirs is to be of more weight
n
than iviagna Cliarta and (he
Laws of the Land, I ihmk it
my duty to lay my lentimems
thereon before my constituents
whole character, as free men,
and even whole perional late
ly, depend in so g'eac a dtgtee
upon the decilion o! this q ieL
tion —a qncltion of no lefsim
noitance than this : wheiher
oor liberiy be (till to be secured
by the laws of our foielaihers,
or be to lie at ihe absolute mer..
cy of apart of our feliow-fub
jects collected together by
means which it i> not necessa
ry for me to describe.
In order (ogive to this fub
je6t all the attention to
which it is entitled and to avoid
the danger to be apprehended
from partial views and personal
feeling, it will be advilable to
argue the queltion on its own
merits, putting the individual
(however we may deplore his
prelent fullering*) out of view ;
though at the fame lime, every
man ought to confider the
case his own ; because should
ihe principle upon which the
gentlemen of the Houfc of Com.
tnons have thought proper to
ad in this instance, be once ad
mitted, it is itnpodible for any
one to conjedure how soon
he himfelf may be summoned
from his dwelling, and be hur
ried, without trial, and without
oath made againlt him, from
the bolom of his family,
inio the clutches of a jailor.—
It is therefore now the time to
refilt ihe docirine upon which
Mr. jones has been sent 10
Newgate ; or it is high lime to
ceafo all pretensions to thole
Liberties, which were acquired
by out forefathers, after io ma
ny iaciifices.
Is the Houfc of Com.
mons authoriled to dilpenie
with the Laws of the Lind or
is it not. If the couUitution be
1 of so delicate a texture, Io weak
| a frame, so fragile a fubltance,
that it is to be only spoken of
in tei ms of adminittraiion, & to
be viewed merely as a peace of
curious but unprofitable work
manflrp ; if Magna Chaaa, <fe
all the wholefomc laws of En
gland, be a dead letter ; in that
case the affirmative of the pro
position may be admitted ; but
if the Contlnudon lives and is
applicable to us end, namely
the happinels of the communi
ty, ihe perfed fecutity of
the life, liberty and property
of each member & all the mem
bers of the society then the
affirmative of the propofirion
can never le admitted; then
muff we be free men ; for we
need no better lecurity, no
more powerful protection for
our Rights and liberties, than
the Laws and Contiituuon.—
We seek for, and we need seek
for nothing new ; we ask for
no more than what our fore
fathers mblted upon as their
own ; we ask for mo more than
what they bequeathed unto us;
we ask for no moie than what
“ hold the mirror up to nature.”— Shakespeare,
they, in the Teftamcnt which
some of them had sealed and
which the relt of them were
ready to leal wi'h their blood,
expressly declared to be “ the
liinh right of the People of
England,” namely, “ ihe Laws
of England.” To these laws
we have a right to look with
confidence for fccuriiy ; —to
ibefe laws the individual now
impriloncd has, thro’ me, au
plied for redr els in vain.
Those who have imprifond
him have refused to liiicn to
my voice, weak'y expreUing the
fliong principle' of the Uw, the
undeniable claims of ili.s Eng
lilhman’s 44 Birthright. ’* Your
voice may come with more
force, may command greater
reipect ; and, l am not without
hope, that it may prove iric--
finable, if it proclaim to ii;;s
House of Commons, in the
fame tone as the tongues of
our ancestors proclaimed to the
Kings of old, 44 Nolumus Zegcs
Anglice mutari or, in our
own more clear and not less
forcible language, 44 Ihe Laws
of England lhall not be chang
ed ”
The Principle fellow citizen*,
for which we are now contend,
ing, is the fame principle fo r
which the people of England
have contended from the ear.
lieft ages; and their glorious
success in which Cornells are
now upon record in the Great
Charter of our rights and liber
ties, and in divers other fubfe_
quent Statues of scarcely less
importance. It was this fame
great principle, which was again
attacked bv Charles the First,
in tnealure of Ihip monies,
when again the people of En
gland and an uncorrupted house
of Commons, renewed the con.
tell ; a comcfl which ended
in the Irupnfonment, the Trial,
the condemnation, & the Exe
cution of that ili advised King.
The felf fame principle it wa s,
that was so daringly violated
by his lon James lld ; for
which violation he wis corn
peiled to flee f rom ihe ja ft in
dignation of the people, who
nominallyflript him of hiscrown
but who prevented (hat Crown
from defeending to his family.
In all ihefe contelis, the cou.
rage pei leverance, and forti
tude of our anreflors, corifpic
uous as they were, wetc not
more (o than their wifdoin ; lor
talk as long as we will about
Rights, Liberties, Fran chiles,
Privileges and Immunities, of
what avail are any, or ail of
these together if our person;
can, at the foie will & command
of any man. or fetofmen, be
seized on, thrown into prison,
and there kept during the plea
lure of that man, or set of
men P II every one of you be
habit at any t'noe, to be sent to
jail without trial and without
oath made againlt you, and
there to be detained as tongas
it pleales the parties (ending
you there (perhaps to the end
of your life) without any Court
to appeal to, without any means
of redtefs ; it this be the case,
shall we (lilt boast of the laws &
liberties of England ? Vo-
Ilimns have been written by
Foreigners as well as by our
own countrymen in praise ofihat
part of our law, which in so ad-
mirable a manner, provides for
our perional lately again A any
iltackn ot meu in power. This has
indeed, becu in all ages, the pride
<»f our country ; and it is tin? inaiu
ten.mee of this principle which
enabled usio escape that bondage,
n winch «il the State* and King
dotns io Europe were entltrollrd
by abandoning and yielding it un ;
and, we may be assured, that if
we now abandon ii, th c bright
days ot EngUnd’s glory will set in
tlw night ol her disgrace.
Bm, i would fain believe that
such in not to be our fate. Our
I <)i cfather made stern gr l<n_visug *
ed Prerogative hide his lj«ad ;
they broke in piece* his sharp
<*»d massy »word. And shall wu
heir >uns lie ab aid to rnier the lists
wall undefined privileges assum
ing I he power ol pic ruga* ive ?
1 shall be toul, pet haps, that
'.here is not much danger of th in
power being very freq icntly ex
ercised. Ihe aiitne apo ogv may
be made for the exercise of anv
power whatever. I do uot sup.
pos a diat the Gentlemen of ihe
iJousa of Commons wid send any
of you to jail, when you do not
displease them. JMr. Yoike did
uot move lor the sending of Mr.
Jones to jail until Mr. Joue*
displeased him ; ——but is it
not a very great compliment to
pay any Constitution, to say that
it does not permit a man to be
imprisoned, uuL’ss he baa done
something to displease persons in
power.
It would be difficult, I should
suppose, to find any man upon
earth however despotic his
sitioo, who would out be contented
with the power of Sending to pri
son during his pleasure every one
who should uare to do tiny thing
to displease him. Besides wncii
I aui told that there is little danger
that the gentlemen of the House
of Commons will often exercise
ihts power, I cannoi help obser
ving, that, though the examples
may be few, thtir effect wid»
turally be great aad general
At this moment, it is true, we *ee
but one uian actually in jail tor
displeasing those gentlemen, but
ihe fate ot this one man (as i» the
eiicet of all punishments) will de
ter others trout expressing
ibeir opinions of the couduct of
iho*c who have the power to
punish him. And, moreover it is
a the nature of all power, especial
ly of assumed &. undefined pow
er, to increase as it advance* in
*ige ; and as Magna Ghana and
ihe Law of me Laud have
not been sufficient to project Mr.
Jones ; a* vve have seen him scat
to jad for having described the
conduct of oae ot the mem
bers as au outrage upon pubjick
feeling, what !*ecumy have we
unless this power of imprisonment
be given up, that we snail uot *ee
other men sent to jail for aUung
their opiuiouof liotien Boroughs,
respecting placemen and pension*
,ei» sitting in the House, or, in
short, t«t making any declaration
giving any opiuiou, stating any
tact, betraying any feeling who
liter by writing, by wordot mouth
or by jesture, which may displease
any ot the gentlemen assembled
iu iSt. Stephen’s Chapel ?
1 hen again as to l he kind of
punishment, why should they stop
at sending persons to jail ? Ii
ifiey can send wnom the please to
jad ; if they can keep the persons
so sent in jail as long as they please
if they cau set iheir pi none is tree
at the end of the hist hour, or
keep them counaed for seven
years; if in short, (heir absolute
will is to have the force of law,
what security can you have that,
they will stop at imprisonment, if
they have the absolute power of
iinpiisoumg and releasing, why
■nay they not send iheir pusoners
to York jail, as well as to a jail »q
London ? Wby not couk-.e men m
[No. 83.]
MONDAY, June 18, IBio
solitary Cflla, or load them with,
chains and bolt? ? They have not
gone these lengths vet ; but wh»i
is there to restrain them, tl thty
are to be sole judges of the extent
of their own powers at d if they
are to exercise those powers with
out any controul, and without
leaving the pirttes whom they
choose to punish, any mivie of ap
peal, any means of redress,
1 hat a power such as this should
exist io anv country it is lamtu'a*
ble to be obliged to believ ; but
that it should tie suffered to exist,
and tint us existence should be
openly & even boas'lully avmvcd
in a country vvhos** chief glory
Ins been its free constitution of
government, is something too
mousterous to be believed, if the
proof were not before our eyes*
Had the least doubt hung upon
mv mind of the illegality of the
proceedings in the present case, it
would have b en altogether remo.
ved by the answers given to tho
reterrence made by me to the;
Great Luminaries of our Law, and
to the laws themselves. The argu
ment, by which I endeavoured to
convince the gentlemen of the
House of Commons, that [heir acts
in tlie case o! Mr. Jones, were ille
gal, 1 shall now lay before you in a.
more full and connected way than
it could possibly be done by the
Parliamentary Reporters , and m
doing this, 1 shall do all that now
remains in my puwer towards tha
correction of this, us I deem, it
most enormous abuse of pow
er, and most dangerous of all
encroachments upou our rights
and liberties of English men. t
remain Gentlemen your most o
bedicHl humble servant.
Francis Burdett.
London, April 23, i Biu.
LONDON, April 9.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT
7 a ken and sent to the Tower 4
The measures adopted last
night for th*t prevention of all rioß
and disturbances, in the neighbor
hood of Sir Francis Burdett’a
in Piccadilly, were success
ful. All carriages, cans, Bt C .
coming into the west end of the
street by Hyde Park corner, were
obliged to go round, ami all com
ing into the ea*t cud of Piccadilly*
were obliged to go round al*.
so- In the course of this morn*
ing not even a foot passenger wax
3utl red ir» the space opposite the
liaronet’s house, which was thus
left entirely to the military and
civil power. In this state of
thing, Sir Francis Burdett remain
ed at home all night, aad the »er*
jeant at arms, Mr. Colman, the
deputy Serjeant, Mr. Clcmentson, d
with the messengers, Wright, M
Jonts, Skelton, Hi ke, jf . contin
ued 111 Piccadilly during the wh ,| 9
night, in order to execute the
speaker’s warrant. About n
this morning was judged a favor
able opportunity to make the at
tempt, and with that view they
proccedcd to his house, from the
Gloucester coffee house. Thu
doors and windows on the ground
fljor being secured, and there be
ing no cnance of admis.ion in that
quarter, a ladder was brought and
placed against a window in iho
trout dining room, on the first
floor. One of me messenger*
of the House of Commons imme
diately ascended, but we are in
formed he was pu>hsd off. Hi*
party, however, being strong and
well supported, they soon forced,
their way through the window acj.
; tools Mir Francis tuto
The baronet was overpowered by
i numbers. Ii would have beet*
idle to have made any farther re
sttance, and he obliged i#s
submit toffor e . A v*ry low,
shabby lnok’ carriage was in
wautiig ii| S dooc. otr Frauds
w<i * oroaght out and put into it,
the leant at arms, Mr,