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VOL. ll.] 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-* [No. 9,,.