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[VOL. ll.]
AVGUST A— PRINTED BY DANIEL STARNES a Co.
Thomas I. Wray & Co.
have just received,
A Fresh supply of
DRUGS & MEDICINES,
u
I orillarii’s Snufl, Hamilton an (
L r t% {jiiicnt Medicine, consistin'
of such articles as were lo m-rI.V
kept in thi‘place by Mr. Hous
ton, among which are, Hamilton* 4
G and Kestoraitve
Ague and Fever Drops,
Persian, Lotion, &c.
Worm destroying Lozenges,
Ess Mustard,
Indian Vegetable Specific,
They are also, in daily ex
pecta'ton of recetvihg an ex en
•iv« additional assortment, ail ol
which will be sold at the most re
duced prices.
September 3' it
WILL BE SOLD,
At Columbia Court House o?i
the second Tuesday in No
vember next ,
One tract of land containing
to2j acres of land in Wilkin
son county in the 23d district,
No. 232. Sold by an older of
Court for the benefit of the
heirs of Wm. Jones Set
deceased. Terms made known
cn the dav of Lie.
J
Judith Jones, aduix.
Wm. Jones, t
JohnGartrell, j admrs.
Sept. 3. 3(
Notice.
r j HE Sub>crd>ers having been
A appointed a Committee to of
teive the second instalment re
‘"•eoty percent, on each AUGUS
-1 A BANK SllAlil<— Hereby
I've Notice, that they will attend *
6' the Si ore at present occupied
hv Loss, Brown a d Co. lor that
purpose on tile 3J September
i rxt being the first Monday of that
mouth.
-John Willfon,
Hugh Nesbitt,
David Reid.
August 16.
Notice.
Virtue of a dead of trust to
‘he undersigned from William
fiawfordLte deceased, Will
he sold at public k sale to the
highest bidder, on Tuesday the
B, x;eenth dav of October next,
the iate residence of said dec. 1
Columbia county.
HORSES, Caitle, Sheep, Hcgs,
iora, fyd,d' r , Plantation tool-,
«-ne road Waggon &c. 2tc. Also
014 acres bt land, including the
Lactation whereon die deceased
lived-in seven miles of the Mar.
krt house in Augusta—the above
property will be sold on a credit
which will be defiued on the day cf
.aide.
John W. Smith,
Peter Crawford,
A. Crawford,
Trujiees.
P S. Any person disputed to
v,f w the Gild* above mentioned
please- apply to Mr lieuj.
Lieketsou who will pilot them
Grille same. Indisputable titles
Biay h P expected from the abuv;.
August 27.
ATTENTION !
Re tv r n day for the nex 1
•superior Court of Richmond
county, is out on Wednes
day the 10th inst.
John H. Man.
3-
BLANK SOMMvNy
Tor sale at this Office
MIRROR OF THE TIMES.
Papers relative lo the Incjury
into gen Wilkir;|-jn’s conduct.
Deposition of Walter y ones esq
THE deposition of Wal
ter Jones jr. who officiated
as judge advocate and re
corder to the military court
of the equiry, instituted in >
the month of January 1808,
tor the investigation of cer
tain charges against briga
dier general James Wilkin
son ; which deposition is
taken before the committee
of the Houie of Reprefen- j
tatives, appointed to en
quire into the conduct of
general Wilkinson. The
deponent, in an Ever to lun
dry enquiries of the com
mittee, in relation to the
evidence and documents
produced before the court '
of enquiry, and hied a
mong the records ofits pro
ceedings ; the manner in
which they were disposed
of; and whether the pa
pers lately returned by ge
neral Wilkinson, do in fadt
constitute the whole of
thole properly belonging to
the records of that court 5 !
depoles and fwcars as fol
lows :
On the 16th February,
1808, after leveral meet
ings of the court of enqui
ry, and fruitless attempts
to bring forward the evi
dence relied 011 to sup
port the charge against ge
neral Wilkinlon, he came
before the court and made
his petition that the affida
vit of Mr. Daniel Clark,
which had been laid on the
table of the Houle of Re
presentatives, and a certifi
ed copy ot which had, with
other papers, been transmit
ted by tne President of the I
United States, to the judge
advocate, might be receiv
ed by the court “ at its in
trinsic value,” or, “ for as
much as it was worth he, '
general Wilkinlon, waving
all objections as to form,
and tothe legal competency 1
of the affidavit to be read
in evidence, but reserving
to himfelf the advantage
of all objections on the score
of credibility, and taking
upon himfelf to discredit or
to contradict the evidence
of Mr. Clark. The certi
fied copy of tfie affidavit
was accordingly’ read and
filed as evidence. The
judge advocate admitting,
as amatter ofcourle, that the
accused was free to urge
every objcciion, and to
produce all competent cvi- J
dence affecting the credit of
the witness. The judge
advocate, at the fame
time filed, dc bene efie,
certified copies of the doc- j
urnents laid on the table of
the Houle cf Repicscnta- ;
“ hold the mirror up to nature.” — ShahsPecre.
*
WEST END OF BROAD-STREET.
•lives, by Mr. Randolph,
; which were reserved upon
hie for further proof.
At the lublequcnt sitting?
|of the court, general Wil
kinson produced and ex
amined leveral witnesses in
his defence. . According to
my recollection, and the
I have preierved,
of the course of thole ex
aminations, he undertook
to discredit the evidence
ot Mr. Clark, upon three
grounds :
ift By imputing to the
witness a particular mo
tive for malice again ft the
person accused, a riling out
of his, Mr. Clark's, ailed
ged connexion with Burr’s
| conspiracy, and the vindic
tive passions of those con
spirators, supposed to be di
! rccted againlt general Wil
kinson, on account of his
agency in their final sup
pression. To this • point
he produced the following
witnesses viz : lieutenant
William A. Murray, lieut.
1 R. T. Spence, John Gra
ham and Benjamin H. Li
trobe, whose examinations
were fevernlly taken down
in writing and filed
idly, by undertaking to
prove prior declarations of
Mr. Clark, upon the iub
jeCt matter of his atiidavir,
mconlillent with the state
ment contained in it. To
this point, he produced the
follovving witnesses, viz :
Robert Wright, Governor
ot Maryland, General Sam’l
Smith of the Sanate, Willis
Ailton, of the Houle of Ke
preientativcs, James Lowry
Donaldlon, of Baltimore, Cc
Dr. Walter Jones, of the
Houle of Reprelentativcs;
whole examinations weie
i severally taken down in wrw
ting and filed. To this point
he also produced the tiepo
‘ lition of Colonel Wm Low
ry, of Baltimore, and a me
-1 moir from the Secrerary of
date’s otiice, entitled ‘ fill- I
tory of the Trade of Loui
| liana,’ which is an exhibit
referred to in Mr. John
Graham’s examination.
3dly. By attempting todif
prove a circumltance men
tioned in Mr. Clark’s affi
davit, viz : his spending g
days and nights in General
Wilkinson’s tent at Loftus’
Heights, in October, 1798 ;
for that purpose thedepofi
tion of Dr. j. F. Carmicha
el was produced and filed.
General Wilkinson alio
took the deposition of Mr.
Daniel W. Cox, of Phila
delphia, for the purpoic ot
proving some cirCumftances ■
to the disadvantage of Mr. 1
Clark. I have but an in- j
diftindt impredion left upon ■
my mind, of the particulars
sworn to by Mr. Cox, ex
cept that after negativing
, the interrogatories of Gen.
Wilkinson, iuggefting any
.(ling to the disadvantage of
Mr. Clark, the witness pro
ceeds voluntarily to dilclofe
all the circumltances within
his knowledge, corrobora
| tive of Mr Clark’s evidence,
or of the integrity of his
motives.
The last witness produced
by General Wilkinson, and
j Ihe last evidence of any kind
brought forward by him,
prior to his deliveting in his
j defence in writing, was Mr.
; Oliver Pollock, by whom
he undertook to prove the
innocence of his Spanish
, traniactions 6c connexions,
from circumstances within
the personal knowledge of
i tiie witness ; his examina- j
tion was al.o ,taken down in
writing and filed.
On the part of the prose
cution, the following addi- !
; tional evidence was produ
ced and filed, viz :
I he deposition of Andrew
Eiiicott, who was required !
to state the whole of his j
knowledge and information, |
relative to any transactions
or connexions between gen.
j Wilkinson and the Spanish
government of Louisiana, or j
* any of the officers or agents •
1 of that government.
Also, the deposition of
Robert Goodloe Harper, to
corroborate Mr. Clark’s ev
» i
Hence, by proving prior
eonverfations between them
in which the evidence reli
; ed upon by general Wilkin
; son, to fix upon Mr. Clark
inccnfiftent and contradic
tory declarations, was at-,
tempted to be rebutted or
explained.
This, according to the
best of my recollcdtion, re
frefhed by the rough min- \
1 utesand loose papers, rela- j
; tive to the proceedings of
the court, yet in my pof- !
! felfion, was the whole of
‘ the evidence before the
! court, when general Wil
kinson role to deliver his ;
defence.
The courtof enquiry had
stood adjourned for some
considerable time ; when it
met in June 1808 for the
pupofe of bringing the case!
to to a conclusion. Dur- !
ing that month, I was par
ticularly and almost con- ‘
ftantly engaged in attend
ing to my professional du
ties at the circuit court of
this district then in felfion, j
I did with some difficulty j
contrive to attend the court
of enquiry for the two days j
taken up by General Wil
j kinfon, in delivering his j
1 defence, which was com- !
1
| mencedon Friday, the 24th, |
and concluded on Saturday, j
the 25th June, )808. In;
the course of reading his
defence, he produced a
1
[No. joe. j
MONDAY, Sep'emSer io. IftiO
[.great number of papers re
| ferrtd to as exhibits, con.
silting of documents and
affidavits' which had never
bciore been fubrnitted to
the court. Captain Fen
wick cf the marines, sat by
with the le papers, arranged
in regular order, and hand
ed them over as they were
called tor in the progress
of the defence. Every ex
hibit lo referred to and cal
led for, was successively
handed over to me as judge
advocate and recorder, and
carefully filed among the
records of the court. I
kept a rough minute or nu
merical lilt of the new pa
pers and documents quoted
and produced by general
| Wilkin ion upon that occa-*
lion, by reference to which,
I 1 find that he produced 55
new exhibits, many of them
comprising lundry inclof
ures, not particularly noted*
I his lilt, or a fair copy,
lam ready to produce to
the committee, if required.
The infant that the defence
was concluded, I collected
together, in the belt order I
could all the papers belong
ing to the records of the
court, and left them with
the three members for their
examination, in order to the
making up and forming
their opinion in private*—.
It was agreed between us
that while they were enga.
ged in this investigation, my
presence might be difpeh
led with until the mem
bers Ihould have definitive
ly made up their deciflion.
In the morning of ttic 28th
June, I was called upon to
meet the courtolenqui y, 6c
found that the definitive o
pinion of the court was rea
dy drawn up in writing j it
was then signed by the
members in iny prcfcncc,
and together with all the
papers delivered up to me
for the purpose of making
up a record of the proceed
ings in due form, and trans
mitting the whole to the
war department. The
court at the fam 3 time com
municated to me their rc
queft, that in making up
the record I Ihould prefix
to their opinion, a methodi
cal flatemcnt or fummaryof
all the evidence in the caf ,
as well oral'as documentary.
The completion of the du
ties thus remaining to be
executed by me as judge
advocate, would under the
pressure of other bu/iness,
then upon my hands, have
required from ten days to a
fortnight. General Wil
kinson was, as I understood
very urgent to have his fate
finally decided and promul
gated prior to the then en
s uing Anniversary of Inde
pendence ; and I received