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and qualifying them to vote by veiling them with momentary polfeflion of the legal Turn of property ; thus by pafTing his own gold watch from hand to hand, convening the ele&ivc light to a fufncrent number of vagabonds to enfure him the feat which he did not fail to difho nor, qth. Who will dare to rcfleft upon the purity and the under- Oanding of Mr Jefferfon, fo much as to funpofe be would even contemplate the nomina te n of a man who, while in I i ndon, fuffered his third for rank (of which he is dill tena cious) and his defire of wealth, fo to cloud his judgement and fafeinate his undcrflanding, that while he imagined he was en grafting himfelf into a rich branch of Tome noble family, he was really performing the mar riage ceremony with a call off tnidrefs of the Prince of Wales ; and who, when he difeovered that he had been duped to be come the feavenger of a royal fcraglio, perfidioully left his lawful wife a vi6lim to pride and ambition. 6th. Can it be furprifing that a man of the above defeription, fhould in his youth, as a pre face to his future exploits, have been guilty of pealing a cozo f and fo to disfigure her, by painting, and docking as to elude detec tion ; and is it poffiblc that fuch a mao can have the lead hopes of arriving at the pinaclc of our judiciary department ? yth. In Ihort, can it for a moment be fuppofed that Mr. JeffeTfon could be led to fele6l for that office a man whofe intel ligence and underdanding arc fcldom furpaffed, and which are only equalled by his malignity and his meannefs; who owes bis elevation to his intrigue— his riches to his treachery; wrtefe private villainy is only furpaffed by his public iniquity, whofe every acquirement of the bead, is obfeured by the depra vity of his heart—and who is ca'culatcd to Chafe the lad fpark of iil eity from his devoted country. NEW-YORK. June 21. One of the vdfels which arri val here yederday from Europe, is reported to have brought in telligence that our commiffioners at Tatis had effe&ed the objeft of their million, and that a treaty had been concluded between the United States and the French Republic, on terms highly ho norable to both. BALTIMORE. June 20. W e dopthc pre'sto announce the arrival of the brig Sally, capt. Hampton, of this port, 13 days bom St. Thomas's. Whild getting under way from faid Jfland, a fchooner arrived in 21 days from P.ourdeaux, who faid that the American commif honeis had accomplifbcd the objeft of their rniffion. Some extrafcls (hall be given in our next from St. Vincent and Gre nada papers of the 19th ult. BLANK DEEDS Tor Sale at this Office, SAVANNAH, July 4* ExtraU of a letter from a gentle man in Augufline , to his friend in this city , dated the 24 th June> 1800. “ This place at prefent is in a confufed date of alarm—yes terday a party of Indians, (faid to he fent bv Bowles) came with in half a mile of this town, and killed a man at work in his field, fcalpcd him, and partly burnt him, and mangled him in a hor rid manner. In two hours after the black general and his com pany went in purfuit of the favages, and this morning a troop of horfc under the com mand of capt. Solana fat out likcwife. The diftreffes of the country inhabitants arc very alarming, and God only knows where they will end.” ST. MARY's, June 25, 1800. Mefjrs. Seymour id Woolhopler } Yeflerday I received letters ficm my friends in St. Auguf tine and on St. John's river, giving the very unpleafant in formation of Bowles the noted adventurer, having fent a large party of Indians, Negroes, and vagabond white men, to plunder ’and break up all the fettlements in Eafi Florida : That this par ty hada&ualiy croffcd St. John's river and had commenced the plunder of negroes horfes and cattle, within twenty miles of Auguftinc, That the governor of Florida had fent his orde»s for all the inhabitants of the country to remove their fami lies and properly into Auguf line. and on the iflands along the coafl. That this order was putting in execution, which muff end in the total lofs of their promifing crops of cotton and provifiom—as yet there was not any ai count of murder com mitted by the favage patty on the inhabitants, nor do I fup pofe they will, whilfl they are allowed to carry on their depre dations without oppefition ; but furcly this cannot long be the cafe ; No government can look on, and fee their citizens or fubje&s mined with im punity. There is alfo advice from the fame channel, that. Bowles had taken the Spanifh Fort of St. Maiks, on the Apa lachecola ; and killed nineteen of the garrifon. By an exprefs arrived here lafl night from Colcrain on this river, we are informed that the notorious horfc thief Robert Allen, with three vagabond ne gro men, fftilingthemfeWes fret) trom their Town in the I otcha way country, made their ap pearance near Colerain two days part—that Allen and two of the negroes were taken and put (by a magiftrate) under charge of the Federal Camion at that place, until they could be conveyed to the prilon in this town: But ffiameful to tell, the villain Allen, who but a fhort time before wuh his ac complices had Role five horfes from that fettlcmcnt, and was well known to the officer and foldiers as furh; be however was fuffered to efcape out of a flrong block houfe furrounded by pickets. Tw’o of the negroes were in cuftody when the cx- prefs came away-*-the other its (aid was drowned in attempting to efcape acrofe St. Mary's river to his party in Florida. Allen and his party, which from information, confffts of Indians, negroes and whites, in all about twenty-five or thirty, are direft from Bowie,s's head quarters at St. Marks with or ders to do milchief on St. John's and St. Mary's, which doubtlds they will. Thefe fellows con firm the account of the taking o f St, Marks, and the killing oi nineteen Spaniards. Is if not tncft extraordinary that the governments of Spain and the Unhid States fhould have continued fo long in a profound deep, as from the 31ft of October laft, when the ic noxvncd general William A. Bowks was fo polite as to info.m them by his proclama tion and other proceedings of that date, from his head quar ters at the Wickawa, on the Chatahooche river, what he in tended doing ? and which he is now putting in force. It is true, that the Spaniards awoke for a moment, and made a fee ble attempt to break up Bowles, but without pfFeft. Our go vernment. perhaps, are in forne degree cxcufable, as they have had feveral powerful anodyne draughts adminiftered to them from time to time by their fu perintendant of Indian affairs, who ever fmcc Bowdcs's arrival has been amufing us with the feac/ahh and good difpofiticn oj the Indians, and of their turning cul tivators in Head ot lobbcrs and murderers. Stubb-in fafts now prove, that this (uperintendant has been egregioully miftaken or buffered himfelf to be impos ed on, or if not, he rnuft have intentionally mifrepreicntcd mat ters. Any per Ton of common dif cernment, muft have feen from the time of Bowles's firfi landing in Odlober laft, and his luble quent publications, what would be the confequtnce if not check ed in his plans Perhaps it is not generally know n that by our treaty with Spain, that the two nations are mutually bound to each other in cafe of an Indian war—that they ate, will be feen by the sth article of faid tieaty, which is as follows: Article s th. “ The two high contra&mg parties fhali, by all the means in theis power, main tain peace and harmony among the feveral Indian rations who inhabit the country adjacent fo the lines and rivers which, by the preceding articles, form the boundaries ot the Floridas. And the better to obtain this effeft, both parties oblige themlclves exprclsly to reftrain by force all hoftilities on the part ot the In dians living within their boun dary : So that Spain will not fuffer her Indians to attack the citizens of the United States, nor the Indians inhabiting their ter ritory, nor will the United States peimit thefe laft mentioned In dians to commence hoftilities again ft the fubjedls of his Ca tholic majefly, or his Indians, in any manner whatever." If the fuperintendant of In dian affairs has that influence over the Indians which he n rc „ tends to have, it is natural t \. t 0 alk » w *>y did he allow f 0 or rst a number of them to Bowles, as to enable him t 0 t lie the caftle of St. Marks, a regular built ftcne fortification, z\ W9%i confidered as deferable againft the whole of the Indian tribes; and why is he at this time fufferl ir.g large bodies of the Creeks t J flock to the flandaid of Bowlrs • But this is a well known f?Q that luch is the nature of ibe reOlels favage, that even without invitation they would fooner travel one rhoufand miles oq foot to do milchief, th n b* earneft felicitation they would go five miles to do a good aft,- or even be induced to Ct fo long ft ill in peace. Then how were we to expeft that thefa people would be quiet when called on by a defining adven turer fuch as Bowles, who doubtlels held to their view the moft pleafing profpefts of large fupplies in the way of trade, and what is flii] more dear to them, an abundance of plunder. Had the advice of your cor* refpendent from this place, which I have Teen published in your paper of the 2 1 ft of Janua ry laft, been attended to, it is highly probable the ruin of the province of Eafl Florida might have been prevented, as well as many unpleafant confluences that are likely to follow to our own country: But forry ami to obferve, that it is now too late, for the fine new regiments then talked of, are now no more. Perhaps our wife folks in con grefs did not calculate on the United States ever having any other nation or people to con tend with but France. I fm ceicly hope they n y not re pent the difmiffal cf three regi ments too fpon, for though I avow my fclf an enemy to a ft end ing army, flill I am of opinion we fhall want them, and proba bly the fooner, if our difpute with France is fettled to our wi flies. I have taken the trouble of dating thefe matters, to be com municated through your ufeful paper, to our fellow-citieens on our extenfive and very ill gar rifoned frontier, in order that they be on their guard, Will you be To good as to enquire what tue commanding officer of the Federal troops in Geo r g’ a » has been doing for years, and is flill doing with the very fine troop of cavalry at Fort VvTkm fon, on the Oconee : 1 srn of opinion that they would be much better and more ulcfully employed on this frontier. Perhaps the commandant has had fomeof thefuperintendants anodynes. It is expefted that the commanding officer of our country, will immediately order detachments from our militia to cover the fettlemenls from plun der, which undoubtedly is the intention of Allen and his par ty, as w‘ 11 as many others. Withrefpeft I remain yours,&c# A PLANTER. ALMANACS /or Sale at tkii