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GEORGIA. LOUlSVlLLE:— Pnbliflied every W-dncfday, by AMBROSE DAY & JAMES HKLY, at 3 dollar, pe arm
payable half yearly : JV he ,e tffays. Arucle, of Intelligence. Advemlemen.s. &c. Ac. a.e thankfully .crt.v.dj
and i Klin I ING in all us variety, is cxccuicd with ncatnds and difpaich.
OF OUR COMMISSIONERS.
'Lbs following articles are puhUto
ed in a London paper of the
()tb September.
The American commiffion
ers who were Tent to Paris, it is
laid, have either left that city,
or are about to embark on their
return home, not having fuffi
cient power to accede to the
demands of the chief conful, in
negociating a new treaty of
peace. The French demanded
as a preliminary, the revocation
of that article of the treaty with
Great-Britain, which places us
in the fituation of the mold fa
voured nations.—They infilled
on equal rights with Great-Bri
f:iin, which the American com
mi (lionets had not power to
grant. They have been there
fore defined to return home for
them, and in the mean time have
been allured that all American
vellels fhall pals unmolcßcd,
which have no letter of marque
or commilfion on board ; and
we know that this promife has
fceen complied with, as a vefTel,
laden with warlike ftores, has
lately been releafed, after being
carried into a French port.
This is precifely the prefent
fate of the American negocia
.tion with France.
Ihe lateft advices from
America Hate, that fome change
his lately appeared in the pub
lic opinion of that country;
iff* and it is generally believed
that general Pinckney will be the
nsvv Preft dent!!!!! Bravo !
The pending negociation be
tween America and this country
k equally in an unfettled hate,
dhe Lnglifh commifiloners,
were Tent to America, have
left New-York, in the St. Al
. an s nian of war, on their re
turn to England.
John Adams, who has been
ptdident of the United States,
who wifhes to be fo again,
! n a letter which he wrote to
Pencil Coxe, in the year ’92,
we have heretofore pub
'Eecd, and fhall again publilh,
affidavits annexed, if we
f it necelfary, made the fol
-1 wing affertion, when fpeaking
0 tne feience of political eco
'/>my—that he “ pretended not
t 0 iavc digellcd any thing rela
to it with the precifion of a
maßcr.” V
u is extraordinary, indeed,
1 a man whole early habits
! ere fcientific, and who had
thirty years of the bed
Urc of his life in the inveßiga
l - political knowledge,
'Uid. after all, be totally igno
,° r all the principles by
i ,rilc h alfrce date ought to be
te°verncii.
THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE;
and
REPUBLICAN TRUMPET.
W E O K ES D AY, November 19, 1800.
—-LIBERTY IS OUR MOTTO — AND TR . L OUR GUIDE.
Mr. Adams fays he has not
digdled any thing with the pre
cifion of a Tnafber, and if we were
to judge of the truth of this af
fertion lolely by an examination
of his defence of the American
conßitutions, we fhould be led
to coincide with the opinion
that is here exprelfed ; but it is
certainly inconceivable in the
nature of the cafe, that fuch
vail opportunities for political
acquirements Ihould terminate
in nothing.
'The American conllitutions
have unfolded «rith much clear
nefs, the principles of civil li
berty—the rights of man have
by aimoll all republicans, been
confide red as corredl in point of
theory—the labours of many
individuals fince our revolution,
together with the laws of our
country, have marked with
much precifion the boundaries
of political power, and preferr
ed with much accuracy its modes
of operation.
American citizens have un
derflood thefe things—they Rill
underhand them, and they are
determined to apply them in
practice—but Mr. Adams, af
ter being dazzled with the fplen
dour of the Britifh court; after
reading all the Englilh and
French authors on the ilibjed of
politics; after writing a long
and laborious work, pretended
ly in defence of American liber
ty, has the weaknefs or effronte
ry to declare, that he is Rill un
acquainted with the fubjed;
that he has digeßed nothing
with precifion. Does he mean
to infinuate to the people of
this country that government is
a myßery, and that the whole
life even of a learned man is too
fhort to underßand and digeß
even the fimple rules which
ought to regulate the jußice of
fociety ? If fuch be the opinion
of the prefident, it is high time
for the country to feek for a
man who underftands the nature
of republicanifm ; who is capa
ble of pointing out the fatal ef
fects of monarchy, and whofe
life has not been a political
blank in the general difeuffions
that have taken place fince the
ririt attempt in the Britifh par
liament to enßave America.
[An. C:t.]
[PUBLISHED by REQUEST.]
Mejfrs. Day & llely,
Yon will pleafe to publifli
the following, for the informa
tion of your republican read
ers.—
On the 22d of October laR
paR, there was a kind of apolo
gy in Mr. Bonce’s paper, for
his refufing to notify the repub-
lican citizens of Richmond
county, to attend at the town of
Harriflmrg on Saturday the
25th of laid month, to partake
of a republican barbacue, as a
day of rejoicing, on account
that thole that poflWTcd arißo
cratical principles had IoR their
popularity, and that republican
principles had taken place, as
plainly appears by the late elec
tion in (aid county. When the
notice was delivered to Mr.
Bunce, by S. H. for publicati
on, he the laid Bunce font word
it fhould be printed, but when
the citv frile of Augußa came to
the office, “ Hr you muft not
print this piece, it will operate
again R our party, it will be the
means of feleding all the honeß
citizens together, which wall be
to our injury at a future clay.”
Mr. Bunco, as an apology,
inßßcd for the per ion’s name
who lent the notice, when at
the fame time lie and the afore
fa d city fißc knew it perfectly
well, as they refufed a piece for
publication with his name to it
in July laR, Rating fuels, as a
perfccutcd man ought to have
done; at the fame time, the
alderman printer of Augnßa re
fufed to publilh the fame. Said
alderman printer, on the 21R of
October, law the notice up at
the market houfe in Augußa,
giving notice of the laid barba
cue, with the persecuted perfon’s
name figned to it; he then gave
Inch a imiff, that he crooked
his nofe, and I am afraid it ne
ver will get Rraight unlds he
lofes his popularity. Of the
22d of October, you will fee a
/ I
dirty piece of the fiße, and it
figned a fuhfcriher and cenfant
reader , wherein lie (peaks of
dung barges, &c. as he well
O O J
knows tint tiie corporations of
Savannah and Augußa ought to
be done away, as it is an induce
ment to fried arißocrats, a.-, his
mailers ha/e told him. As for
the court houfe and jail, the con
flitution plainly declares, that
they fhall be central in each
county throughout the Rate,
which each member is fworn to
fupport before he can take his
feat in the legiflaturc. Thefe
lays the dread of the city fißc
and his arißocraticul affociates.
If the Rile of Augußa had got
his deferc when in the Britifh
lervice, or when he kept /hop
in Bermuda, he and his ghoß
would have been forgotton, and
(A comic we fhould no: have
had him in Augußa, furling and
flapping at the heels of every
republican citizen that comes in
his way or not. He being un
worthy of further notice, we
fhall leave him to the rcßedlion
nf his own confluence, and hop©
lu* will in future take bettef
care of letters committed to
his charge.
Pray, Jus Mr. S. J. got his
joo dollars paid to him that was
taken out of Ids letter ? we may
naturally fuppofe he has, by hb
lilencc on the occafion.
A Republican Citizen.
Aft/Trs 1)a vcV Hei.v,
Your friends in the
haveheard of the attempt. 1 triad©
by the Nobility of Louifville, to
profecute you for a plain flare -
ment in your paper, of a difor*
dcrly attack made by them on
your habitation, in the hour of
retirement. Repeated imple
ments, it is Yaid, were prefered
for libels to the grand jury,
which as often were repelled by
that enlightened independent
body of Americans. We con
gratulate you on your delive
rance from the iron hand of the
fpoiler, and felicitate your coun
try, on the firmncfs and patriot
tifrn of their grand inquefl.—.
Your generous profecutoi*, iu
the true ftyle of royal federal ifni #
would opprefs, infult anil abufc,
then punilh for complaining.—-
Surely, pride and haughtinefs of
foul hath deprived thefe nun of
their reafon, or they would not
perjifl.iii their filly career; eve~
ry movement in which brings
on them the contempt and ridi
cule of thofe they would injure
and opprefs. Experience, the
Ichool of knowledge, even to
the ftupici, to them is blindnefs,
and a ftumblmg-block. 'Phis
may not appear fo fl.range to
thofe who will relied, that a
hardnef* of heart and blindneft
of under] landing has charade
rized this generation, root and
branch, from Eharo king of
Egypt, down to the meant ft
worfbipers of Adams. If the
grand jury had found thefe in
didments, tlic flood-gates of
profecutiops, or rather pcrfccu
tions, would have been broken
up, to the vaft increafe of at
torney’s fees, time to the feflion,
and employment to grand juries;
hut above all other confldera-*
tions to the children of inde
pendence. Profccutions of this
fort would have been engines of
the mo ft bitter opprcfTion, in
the hands of power, w ealth and
influence. It is fa id by lawyers*
that on profccutions for libels*
the defendant cannot give ia
evidence of the truth of the
fads charged.—A poor man*
therefore, not circumftanccd to
fie for iil ufarre from the mmh
» C*
ty enemy, feeks the only conlb
lation left the wretched, that of
complaining ; for this is profe-*
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