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ARGUS. “ Hrrt TRUTH unit rent'd rcings, jb:d dare accist e'en lings themselves ...Or ruhrs of the freed' MILLEDGEVILLE : TUBSDAV, APRTL 10,1810. V*<4» — THta Supreme Court of the U- tiiteJ States in the cafe of Fletcher t'f.lPeck'lnve decided that the grants obtained by James Gunn an>l others under the Yazoo law, is valid, and that the aft of Georgia refeinding the infamous Yazoo law, is uncon- ftitntiott il—Chief Juftice Mirfhall delivered the opinion of the court-— Judge Jc hnfon has publiflied his dif- fent <t> uhia decifion ; his opinion does ktt tor both to his head and heart. national bank. A'tjill to eilablilli a National D ink, Jhau'besn twice read in the Senate of the'-Unised Stares, and made the or der of the day for the 30th March. The capital of tins bank is not to ex- cu'cd twenty millions of dollars, di vided into fifty thoufand (hares,-each {li tre being four hundred dollars.— Thcfe Chares arc apportioned to the feveral Hates, and are to be fubferib- cu for at certain towns or cities. The late of Georgia is entitled to fix hundred and ninety-four (hares; the fubfeription to be opened in Miiledgeville, and continue open till the whole of the /hares are taken up. ADJOURNMENT OP CONGREoS. army or Tti" uuiTiin .‘.Tate". ; reading, and many w‘ll get up late Abllraft of the returns lately laid jin the morning, b caufe they went bslore the Houfe front the Id -part- ; to bed late at night. meat of War, (hewing the (late of I Tltoufandj of fermons will he the army of the United States, and, - preached, hut not attended, and ma- p irticularly of the force deflined for ,,*■/ that are attended to, will not be tlie drf'-nce of New-Orlcans. “ The Military Peace E/tal/ishment " General Half, - - - - Si- Corps of Engineers, - - 4 3 Regiment of Artjllcrifts, 1,421 Firft regt. of Infantry - 4!) I Second do. - GSO Recruits not attached to re giments, ----- 32 Total aggregates - - 2,765 “ Additional Military Force!' General and fubaltcrn flalF - 4 Regiment of light dragoons 451 Reiriment of light artillery 553 Thin! regt of Infantry - 4 87 Fourth do. - - - 570 Fifth do. - - - - 037 Sixth do. - - - 543 Seventh do 862 Regiment of Riflemen - - 570 underfloor! Some deaths will happen from an over gormandizing ftotruch, and few from want of bread to eat—hut mod deaths, this year, will be cccafioned by the want of breath. It will be the falhion for ladies to wear no pockets, and a variety of circum (lances may occafiou fome men to need none. Dalhing fellows will play high at courier an*.-od bringing the im portant news, that the French had advanced ns far ns farrago na, were attacked by the Spa- nifh army under the Duke <le Albuqurquc* and defeated whh the lots of (JOOO men, and were obliged to retreat through the pals again.—When the courier left Cadiz, Seville, Badajos and Cadiz were illuminated. No particulars of the action had tranfpired at Lifbon when capt P. failed.—There were alfo a report of a revolution in the game, when they have nothing to - fouth of France, headed by Mal- lofe, and infamoufly defraud incau- f cna l) aV0 ux ; that they tious creditors.. Thev will aflame g at | t | the conftquence of a (bum filing ca- ‘ pital, bv a certificate they commonly ; carry with them, called impudence, j T-^OVJ.on. a.id MatfeiM Elections ar.d eleftioneerin Total aggregate - “ Re 4,1 89 Defence rtf g egular force allotted for /.!■, cf Nc^u-Orlcans." Of the peace rftablilhment Of the “additional military force,” ordered there Dec. 2, IbOS, 2,036 Aggregate - - - 2,772 will run high as ever, as foon as the cam paign commences, when red nofes, black eyes, and long faces will be ex hibited with their ufunl fplendor. Great preparations will be made for travelling excuvfio-.is, and many will be performed; but little pains taken for that journey, ft cm whence there is ns rtturning. Difpffiirort and effective fifength ef the additional military force ordered for defence of Hew-Orlcans, according too] return dated Gel. 31. 1809. Fit for dutv - - - - - 414 Sick - - 745 Abfent - ... - - - - 499 In arreft or confined - - 9 K'67 Of this detachment 523 have died from the 1ft of Mav to the 15th of .'In extraordinary fie(7;on of the MalTachufetts legiil.it urc fliould be called to reconluler the (late of confufion in which the difavowal of Mr. Jackfon’s odious conduct, mull throw the “ northern confederacy a fafl fliould bo proclaimed to expiate their foilv—and a few fall day fermons to fink, in oblivion the fads and fermons that have pre ceded them. Dr. Ofgood will have to republifh his fevtnon with variations for another irf.ru- rnent. Aurora. c-puties to lerd Col- lirigwood, offering to give up * es. The night before capt. P. failed, a brig of war arrived exprefs from England, but every thing w'as kept a fee ret. There was a re port that the brought a confirma tion of the revolution in France, and Bonaparte’s proclamation on the fuhieft.—Major General Stewart and Piclon had arrived from England, together with the 79th Highland Regiment, and the 94th Regiment Scotch Bri gade, lb me Artillery and Caval ry and recruits for the regiments in Portugal, compofiug in all a- bout 2.5000 men. It was laid Lord Wellington was expedited at Lifbon to hold a convention. 1 here appeared to be tvtry dif- pofition to defend Portugal. 1 lie Portugutfe under Marfhal Bercsford were upwards of .50, 000 ftrong, the Britilh about 22,000 men. CuHorn IToufe Bonaparte.” regi:a:;-ra IVaflfington, Mar h 30 The rumor circulated ; ;n .r- day, of the arrival of tl; I i n Adams, at N w/o k, cpp.zr„ io have been unto unied. New Hamfjhire Eleflia. Nearly all the returns r.re re. ceived, from which it is nfca- tained that (he republican cv-'i- datc for Governor, and a r?. - riiy of the republican condi. ’;u. a for Council, Senate and Afi ’in- bly, are defied, by rdpcfta ic majorities. This viflory is tl t* more to be appreciated, as ir fi. < been gained in the face of tl * mofl llrenuous oppofition, ami againft an mediant tonem of abufe and rnifreprefeniation cf the motives ar.d ineafures of the adminiilration. As tlioft tne.i- lures were, alinoft in every in- llance, made the criterion of the . claims of the refpe&ive candid, ates, this triumph furnifites tort- clufive proof of the attachment of a majority of the citizens of that (late to the adminillration. 1 OR SALE, Two State Troop Bou n- tics. jDan}el Ti ? }lsou. Tim jptht committee appointed to November 1809, as (fated in a return ! confiderand report bufinefs neerfia- j of that date. *rv to be aftod on during the feffion, j and when it nay be expedient to j clofe (be fame,has made a report re commending ait adjournment on the I 25th of April. Baltimore, March 23 According to Creme, Aufhia j Ealrafl cf a letter from a Sharif No decifion had been made rela tive to the commercial intercourfe bill on.the 30th March. Reftgraiions, difmijfils, and deaths of officers cf the army tf the U. States, fare Jan. I, 1809. Refigned ----- Difmified - - - - Died 50 1( We conceive that portion of the following article which relates to the conducl of Mr. Jack foil, not j worthy of credit. A gentleman who arrived at this , port yefterday, from Nafl’au, Havanha, informs u3, that before be left the former place he read in an Englifh paper, the fp- ech of the king at the opening of parliament in Jan uary, in which his Britannic majefty decidedly approves of the conduft of Mr. Jackfon, and fays that no oilier miuiller will he fent to this country if Mr. Jackfon fliould be unable to accomplifli the objeft of his miflion. A rumor that the king’s fpeech had been received at Naflau, reached this place fome days fincc via Amelia. Our informant left Naf- •f.ui on the 22d ult. Wc alfc learn by the fame pentle- raan, that a government vend ar med at Kavanna about the 12ib inft. front Cadiz, bringing intelligence that the Junta had removed to that _city from Seville—that the French armies were in the neighbourhood of Cadiz, and that a Dritifh fleet v r as in that ijaibor, on board of which they v. iiheii the Junta to embark for South-America—but there appeared iy he au'uuwillingncfs on the part of F.ie Junta to embark.—Cuarttflon Courier of March 26. Prcfent difpfithn of Gene "a! ecu, csV. “ Brig. Gen. James Wilkinfon, Walhington, m. t. “ Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton, re lieved Brig. Gen. V.'ilk'mfon in the command of the troops in the terri- v : ;l j toriesof Orleans and Mifliilippi, the 18th of Dec. 1S99, Brig. Gen. Wil kinfon being ordered to repair to the feat of government. “ Brig. G 'n. Ganfcvoort, Albany, New-Yoik,” See. S:c. We imderfland that Mr. Tempi f.- | MAN, of Georgetown, in thediftrift j of Columbia, under whofe direftions the chain bridge was built at the falls of Schuylkill, two years ago, has been fent for to New-England, 1 and lias been engaged to build fi ve- ral of thofe cheap and valuable brid- j ges in that country. Aurora. From Omnium Gatherum. It is fuppofed that the federalifts \\ould have voted for introducing the lubmarihe mode of attack ; provided a claufe had been inferred, to exempt ■iritifi (hips from the arrow gun and torpedo* and to direft them to be em ployed againil French vcffels only !— When 'Vc look at the anti-American votes of the federalifls in congrefs, ifbf'trayijng the liveliell fympathy for | and attachment to the caufcofEng- Jsnd,) vie behold with lclis wonder the eifu lions of the Briiifh printers tcuiof congrefs.—If a man wasjuftly condemned to death under the Mo- faic Jaw for ftrikiitg his father or mother ; wh.it punifliment does tnat wvetch deferve who turns againft his country ? I'ar and feathers are too Wild fos him. IFh'g. PROPHECIES FOR THE YEAR 1310. In the courfe of this year, a great many ladies will take cold, for want of clothing, while many others will Carry their whole wardrobe on tiieir back, and yet be ftarved to death. Three or Four young ladies of good property and expeftation, will fall violently in love with young men of neither theft requifites ; and ma ny dreadful difappointments will happen on both (ides. Several capital failures will hap pen during this year—and when their a flairs come to be inveftigated, it will appear they never fliould have cut nor fupported the figure and confequer.ee thev do. Their down fall will afford high entertainment to thofe who envied them, when Ins ceded by tile laft coricli'.fion of peace 4 2-1 cf her provinces, and 4 27 of her population. There remains to her POoG fquare t*.?il<s, with 13.587,000 inhabitants, among which are 400,000 capable cd hearing arms j —belides that Aufhia has loll a Off. revenue of If! millions of guil- j tiers, and has yet 8J millions left prr annum. IDfore the laft j war (he had 12 millions of guil ders, national debt, lluw far this has augmented in the laft war, is vet unknown. Mergentheim, j in Franconia, Crome dates, to ‘ contain 10 fquare miles, and 1 32.000 inhabitants, and the Il lyrian provinces to 1050 fquare j miles, and 1 ,.500,000 inhabit ants. The grand ciutchy of Warfaw, enlarged by Now Galicia—the circle round Cracow, and that of Lamafk. will contain more than lour millions of inhabitants, and will exceed in extent of ter ritory and population, the king doms of Bavaria, Wirtemburgh, Saxony and Weftphalia, fov Bavaria has only 5,248,000 in habitants—Wirtemburgh 513, 400. Saxony about two millions, and Weftphalia two millions. The grand dutchy of Warfaw is as confiderable as that ot Pruf- fia. 1 he Illyrian provinces, fuch as they have been eftabliflied by a decree of the emperor Napo leon, contain 1,500,000 inhabit ants. Gentleman at Cadiz, 'far;. 2G. ’a LlU'd j 1 their gigs and tandems come to the hammer. Two or three duels may occur, and the parties, fomehow or other will mifs lire—never meaning to hit each other And one or two, where the conicquences are more ferious, the parties may (land trial, but the laws of honor will prevail in favor of their acquital. A general tafle will prevail for Ntzv 2 erf, March 24. Juft after our paper had gone to prefs our boat came up irotn the Narrows with feveral arrivals —among them is the fhip Un ion, capt. Pigot, in 48 days from Lifbon—left there the 3d February. A few days before capt. P. failed, two couriers had arrived from Spain, announcing the French having forced the pafs Scira Mnrena. Two divi sions of the French pafied with mufkets only, but the latter divi- fion met with cbfiiijatc refin ance.—it was fuppofed the Span iard$ were bribed. Another “ The Central Junta have de creed, that from the lfl of Feb, their refider.ee {hall be at Cadiz. “On the 14th of Jan. the French attacked the pafftge of Montiffon and Villamanique to enter into Andalufia, but they were repulfed ; in confcqucnce of which the patriot Army is in good fpirits. “ The general opinion is, that as foon as the Central Junta qiu c Seville, the Provincial Junta jf that difltift will take the v, j 10 { e command of the province, and fome change will take place in govt rnmenr. The Central, ; s laid, give lheothe r . full power to ad as they may f ee beft. “ Nie Jur.t-, Qf Granada and Cordova b^ve given orders to atm the r .holc population of the pfovinc e in a mafs. “ a he French army is compo- fod of about 50,000 (6,000 of v hich arc cavalry). Our army will be about 3GOOO.” Salem, March 20. Ytfterday (lie fchconcr Min erva, capt. Leach, arrived at Marblehead, in GO clays from Alicant. A gentleman who con verted with captain Leach a few minutes, derived from him the following information ;—That the French were within 6 leagues of Alicant, in two divifions, (40,000 in the whole) one divi (ion deflined to Alicant, and were exprtted in every day ; the other to Valencia.—That the in habitants were with all halte fending their plate and other valuables to Gibraltar & Cadiz, judging them to be the only pla ces of refuge and fafety—and were determined to fubmit to the French w r hen they came, with out refinance. The Junta re mained at Seville. A London paper of Jan. 20 v _ fays—“ This morning wc had advice of the arrival of feveral Ihips from France to obtain log wood and ether articles from this country ; adnmt?d und?r tl'Y* new Will be oold, On the ftrfl Turf Jay in 'June rent, in purfnance cf an order alfo-. hte of the Honorable Inferior Court cf Hancock, in ike town of Sparta, Fifty acres of Land, being part of I.ot N° 132, in the 10th dillticl of Baldwin, now Jones county, for the benefit of the heirs of Jacob Moon, decea- fed. John Mtddlcbrooks, April 10. Guardian. ~~KdriCL. ~ WILL LE SOLD at the Plan- tat ir a of Bet foil Bryant. dec'd, in Hancock county, vi the four* leenth of May next, One Negro Man— Ilorfes, Cattle, Hogs, Sheep & Iloufehold furniture. Twelve months credit will be given, the purchafer giving bond with ap proved fecurity. Mary Bryant, Adm’x. Francis Cato, Adm’r. April 10. (Postponement.) WILL BE SOLD, At the Mar ket I loufe in the town tf Miiledgeville, on the first TueJ'- day in April next, One Thousand Acres of Land, lying on the Oconee river, feven miles above Mil- fedgevillc, known by the name of Cedar Shoals trad, granted to John Tankerfley, deceit fed •— Terms of fale;—half the pur- chafe money to he paid by the lit day of January 1811, nul the balance in twelve months thereafter—notes with a mort gage and approved fecurity will be required. W. B Tankerfley, j Dreadzicl Pact, ^ Adm is. (Hr '1 he fale of the ahove property is poftponed until the firftTuefdny in May next. April 10,' 1810. ' noTicE Nine months from the date hereof application will be made to the honorable Infeiior court of Burke county for leave to fi li 72 acres of Land in faid county ofBu ke cn the waters of Oge- chce, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of |ohn 1/. 11, dec. I Kincbcn Curl, Guardian. 1 September H)fh, iy<3