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juf;;cc to the mzL of the people of America. When a party was forming in the latter end of fevency-fc ven, and beginning of feventy cight, of which John Adams was one, to remove Mr. Wafh ington from the command of the army, on the complaint that he did nothing, I wrote the fifth number of the crifis, and published it at Lancaftcr (Con grefs being then at Yorktown in Pfnnfylvania) to ward off that meditated blow; for though I well know that the black times of feventv-fix was the natural confeoucnce of his want of mi litary judgment in the choice of pofuions into which the army was put about New-York and Jerley, I could fee no poffible advantage, and nothing but inii'chief, that could arife by diffracting the army into parties, which would have been the cafe had the intended motion gone on. General Lee, who with a far caftic genius, joined a great fund of military knowledge, was perfeCtly right when he faid, “ We have no bufinefs on If lands, and in the bottom of bogs, where the enemy, by the aid of its fhips, can bring its whole force againft a part of ours and fhut it up.”" Tnis had like \ to have been the cafe at New- i York, and was the cafe at Fort Wafhington, and would have been the cafe at Fort Lee, if General Greene had not moved inflantly off, on the firft news of the enemy’s approach. I was with Greene through the whole of chat affair, and know it per fectly. But though I came forward in defence of Mr. Wafhington, when he was attacked, and made the beft that could be made of a feries of blunders that had nearly ruined the country, he left me to penfh when I was in prilbn. But as I told him of it in his life time, I fhould not now bring it up, if the ignorant im pertinence of feme of the fede ral papers, who are pufhing Mr. Wafhington forward as their llalking-horfe, did not make it neccflary. That gentleman did not per form his part in the revolution better, nor with more honor, than I did mine, and the one part was then as neccflary as the other. Fie accepted as a prefent (chough he was already rich) a hundred thoufand acres of land in America, and left me to occupy fix foot of earth in France. I wifh, for his own reputation, he had abled with more juftice. But it was al ways known of Mr. Wafhington by thofe who bdl knew him, that he was of fuch an icy and death-like conllitution, that he neither loved his friends, nor hated his enemies. But be this as it may, 1 fee no realbn that a difference between Mr. Wafh ington and me fhould be made a theme of difeord with other people. There are thole who may fee merit in both, without making themlelves partizans of either, and with this rtfiebtion I ciofe the fubjebl. As to the hypocritical abufc thrown out by the federalifls on other fubicbU. I recommend to them the obfervation of a com mandment that exifled before either Chriftian or Jew exifted. “ Thou lhalt make a covenant with thy fenfes. “ With thine eye that it beholds no evil. “ With thine tar that it hears no evil. “ With thy tongue, that it fpcaks no evil. “ With thy hands, that they commit no evil.” If the federalifts wall follow this commandment, they will leave off lying. THOMAS PAINE. City of JVafhingtcn , Level's Hotel , Nov. 0.6, 1802. LOUISVILLE, IVEDNF.SDATy December 22, 1802. WE are credibly informed, that, when Judgb Moore, ar rived in Columbia, South-Ca rolina, to attend the Circuit Court of the United States there, he found the Diftrid Judge had adjourned the Court, and, being informed there, that no Jurors were drawn for theCircuitCourt in this State, the Judge returned to North-Carolina. —This e venc, is very much regretted, as Jurors, were drawn for this Term, when Judge Flail pre fided in Savannah in May Lift. Preferments of the Grand Jury ' for the Diftribi of Georgia , in the Sixth Circuit Court of the United States , at a Court be gun and held at Louifville , before the HonorableW 1 l l 1 a m Stephens, one of the Judges of faid Court , on the of December , 1802. WE, the Grand Jury for the Federal Circuit Court for the Diftrid of Georgia, meeting for the firft time under the pre fent Judicial Syftem, do con gratulate our fellow citizens on the alterations of the former— by which one Judge is enabled todiftribute juftice in the abfence of his colleague, which amend ment we conflder as a great im provement in the organization of this Court. We alfo take this firft op portunity to declare our unflia ken confidence in the mealures of the prefent adminiftration, viewing them as in the higheft degree patriotic and beneficial to the real, folid and conftitu tional intereft of the United States—and we are happy in anticipating the harmony which we truft, will exift between the Ltgiflative, Executive and Ju dicial Departments of the Union, efft&s of the greateft magnitude to the happinels and good order of the Government, and which only flow from the increafe of corred republican principles in thefe now happy ftates. We return our thanks to the pretiding Judge, for his atten tion to bufinefs, and requefi that thefe our prefentments be pub- Lflied. Solomon Wood, foreman . — Michael Shelman, Francis Boy akin, Willis Brazeal, George Sugar, Robert Shaw, Hezekiah Jones, Jcffc Sanders, Archibald Hatcher, Barrett Brewer, Ar thur Fort, William Melton, Zachariah T.amar, James Srai- David Blackfhcar, Wil liam Barron, Briggs Hopfon. Ext raff from the Records, 20 lb December, 1802. Richard M. Stites, Clerk Geo. Dijiriet, Mr. Paine, in his fecond let ter to the citizens of America, takes the bull of federal!fm by the horns, and expofes this po litical bead, in ail his native hypocrify and deformity. It is truly laughable how humoroufly Mr. P. thrufts king john the firfl: and lad, into tlie hole, along with his yankee nobility, or Ba rons ! On this important quef tion, the public will lee the temper and replies of the tory printers and the fort of defence they are to make for royalifts cloathed in the garb of repub licans. Indead of manfully difeoffing a point, or controverting by evidence or faffs, the pofitions laid down by Mr. Paine, we fhall hear them cry fire !—age of reafon !—look what a long nofe he has got! he drank all the brandy in Baltimore in nine days ! Pie has been expofed, pen my honor —a hang- man ho nor, along with a monkey and bear in a cage at Paris !—Such American citizens, are the an fwers made to the author of Common Senfe and the Rights of Man, by the fatellites of King George and King John, in America. Am. Patriot. Many are d’fpofed to pity the ex-prefidenr, and wifh him differed, like Mr. Baffet, to die offcalmly—compaffionate fouls, do they re fled on the injuries he has done, and the greater he would have done if differed to continue in the preddential chair ?—was he not an enemy to the people having their juil fhare in the government of themfelves ? Was it not Mr. Adams who declared the people no better than cc wolves,” and that a nobility was neceffary to keep them in order ? Away then with commiferation where it does not belong, and let the actions of Mr. Adams, his an ti-democratic principles with his fate be constantly held up as a warning to all who innovate on the eftablifhed regulations of an honed people. Extract of a letter dated New- York, Nov. 29. “ Captain Mariner, of the fliip Experiment, arrived here this morning, in 26 days from Jamaica, informs us, that jud before he failed, a P'rench fri gate arrived there, difpatched by general Lc Clerc, to requeft of the governor of Jamaica, that he would afford an afylum for Madame Le Clerc and fuit during the unfettled date of St. Domingo ; mentioning at the fame time, that the blacks had become fo formidable as to render it unfafe for the whites to remain there. It was alfo underdood, that the blacks had been victorious in a lace general engagement with the French troops.” Ext rati of a letter, dated Port- Repuhlican, \Ji of November. “ Death and ckdruftioa threaten us even wilV.ln thole tor tilled walls, in (hort every' town, village, czc. from the Cape to this place has become the prey of the brigands and the flames—we maintain, yet, a few ports at Mirdala’u , grand Peis and Cul de Sac ; but from all appearances they will fooa be wrtfted from us, and France will have nothing left in this de voted Ifland but the Cape, Port Republican and the Molt , as the South hitherto fo quire exhibits already the dreadful fymptoms of the approaching revolution.” BOSTON, November 23. St. DOMINGO. Cant. Appleton, from Cape- Francois, who failed from thence Odober 16, mentions, that the affairs of the French in St. Do nftngo were in the moft forlorn fituation. Port-de-Paix had been burnt, and many whites rnallacred. The fame fate was impending over Aux-Cayes.—■ Odober 14, near the Cape, a fevereadion took place between the blacks and the French, The former were vidorious, and took a fort. The evening previous to the engagement a negro general and 1500 black foidiers defer ted from Le Clerc. The defertion of Chriftophc was expeded to follow. A number of Americans who ferved, fome voluntarily, others by compulfion, were killed and wounded in this battle. The negroes were confidered as 15,000 flrong ; Le Clerc’s ar nsy was reduced to about 4000, The general, who was without the Cape, doubting his ability to proted the city, ordered the lick and wounded to be remo ved, and gave permiffion for the women and children to de part. The valuable effeds were removing on board the fleet, Bufmefs was jfufpended. The ading American conful, Mr. Dodge, had embarked in a vef fel for Portfmouth. American veffels were embargoed, and ordered off* the bar. 1 hele meafures indicated an expeda tion of being obliged to aban don the place. Capt. A. adds a that a few hours before he failed he was told by the proprietor of the American Coffee-houle, that it was reported Le Clerc had agreed w r ith the black com mander in chief that the French troops fhould leave the iflanci in three days—and that an ar miftice had cf courfe taken place. COLUMBIA, Dec. 10, 1802. On Wednefday laft the legit lature of this ftate proceeded to the eledion of a governor, a lieutenant-governor, a fenatOi to congrefs, a fecretary of ftate, and a furveyor-general; when J ames Birchill Richardfon, £lq was eleded governor, Ezekiel Pickens, Efq. lieutenant-gover nor, Major Pierce Butler, fe tor to congrels, Daniel Efq. fecretary of ftate, and Jono Bynum, Efq. furvcyor-gencral. _ . »■—# BLANK DEEDS Of CONVEYANCE, m for Jale at this Office*