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“Here TRUTH unlice us'd reings,
And dare accost e'en tings themselves
...Or rulers of the free.”
MILLEDGLVILLE :
jrEDXT.SD.ir, .1UUUST 1 5, 1810.
REPnBi.tt.VN, in anfwer to
#K?eorgivinus,* is received and
fhall appear in our next.
LATEST FROM CADI?!.
fiances in which the bank of En
gland has given a bonus for the
extenfion of its charter) but by
the practice of the different (fates
for it has been uniformly the
praftice of foine dates to re
ceive a bonus from thefe mono
polizing inftitutions. LJnquef-
tionably if benefit conferred re
quires- a return in value, it is
right and proper that the go
vernment (liould exact front that
monopolizing inltitution a bo-
But, fir, the courfe is not
which Ere can, always remem
bering that we consider the thing
necdiary and properin itfelf. As
that is my opinion, I think it a
fair tranfaftion, in making the I
bargain with the company, to
obtain as great advantage to the
government as the jultice of the j
cafe will admit ; and this is a <
P O S T S CRIP T.
By Left Nieht’s Mail
election, andfilA one bn whom { wk>^»b;*u£sk:
you can more impueisly con
fide.
I am lenfible by (iris addrefs
to my county, 1 incur the
enmity of fume of hi$ latel.’Ites,
but in doing this I hope to open
the eyes of the majority of my
county-men, that they may lee
only juflified by the praftice of meat that they {hauld pofffs the
Arrived at Philadelphia, brig the Hate governments, but by i power of taxing our lands. We
Saunders, Quail, from Cadiz, s the practice of the republican j nude u propofition to them that
adminiftration of Mr. Jelfi'rlon. j if they would not tax our lands
f he government of the United
thing we have done beiore. It ; they have been groisly impeded
upon and their iujfr.igcs have
been injudicioufiy beftowed.
JOHN COM.
f ines county, AuOud 1*2, 1810.
will be recqo! lofted when the
(late of Ohio, then a territory,
was made a date,, we found it
very inconvenient to the govern-
which he left tile 29th May, and
informs that the French are e-
reeling batteries and advancing
their works at Matagorda ; but
hald not opened them when he
failed, neither had there been a-
ay rencounter or fallv on either
lide for fotne time previous to
his failing. On the 17th and
States poffffed a number of
(hares in the bank of the United
States, each reprefenting,as each
of thefe does, four hundred dol
lars ; yet that adiuiniftration
transferred this paper at an ad
vanced price. If the principle
25.ii of May, two of the prifon ! of difpofing of thefe (hares be
fhips ran afnore in gales of wind,
by which fix or 700 French pri
foners were rdcafed ; the boats
of the fiikifh men-of war at
tempted to board them, while
drifting, and take out the pri
foners, but the Frenchmen hav
ing got arms in 'heir hands kept
them i'ff, an i killed IG or 17 of
the F.nglifh; from which it is
fuppofed that the one of ihe 25th
hiving four or five hundred pri
foners, taking advantage of the
gale, h id role on their guards,
feized their amv, cut the cables,
and let her drift on Shore*—the
Frenchmen defended her till they
wre all landed, when the Bri
tish iL t her on fire.
D E B A T E
ON RENEWING TIIE CHARTER oE
THE BANK r, E THR U. STATUS.
After fome difcplfion of the
details of the bill—•
Mr. Troup laid gentlemen
might paf; the bil : , but for the
conditution.il qwefthm. If they
did pafs it, he h >ped they would
net permir themf Ives to become
til! retailing hurkfters of the
community for the faie of bank
charters. In the name of com
mon honed-/, faid he, I befeech
con-eft, it will equally apply to
all the (hares in the inditution.
What right had the Secretary of
the Treafury, or perfon afting
for him, to demand 45 per cent,
above the real lpecie capital for
the bank dock ? In transferring
the dock, did not the govern
ment on that occafion receive a
bonus? Unqueltionably they did?
If they receive a bonus as to fame
(hares, can they not with equal
hoiiedy receive it as to the v, hole
number or (hares ?
But it does not require refine
inent to judity the courfe which
it is propofed to purfuc*. The
thing is worth fornething. You
are offered fomething for it.
There is no oppreflion in it. If
you could at once put in vcqui-
fition fo much money of the
ftockholders, and put. it ir. the
pockotf! of the U S it would be
oppreflion. But here is a fair
choice offered to them, whether
they vvi 1 take the charter, giv
ing a bonus for it, or rejeft it. It
is perfectly a matter of choice ;
and from the arguments of lome
gentlemen oppolcd to the bill, fo
far from being un billing to give*
fo much, it would feem that the
ftockholders ought to give much
for
we would do certain other things
I he* bargain took place. We
have derived an advantage from
if, at the fame time that we paid
them a price for it. i he confe-
quenoe lairly follows that we
ought to grant this necdiary
charter on fu :h terms as are juft,
both with relpeft to the country
and the government, & derive as
much advantage as we can from
it.
[To be continued.^
-• ill I l ■ i II WWi—nilll
Columbia, (S C.) Feb. 2, 1S10.
At the requeft of Col. Tho
mas Ilutchinfoii, 1 do hereby
certain number of years, | certify that while I was public
il 1 rJ /lorortn in . I’realurer of the uppey divifion
of the flute aforefaid, between
the months of February, 1791,
and 17-95 ; That my name was
counterfeited to fome indents as
public l’reafurer, Sc one* or more
of them v/ns palled by John
Gregory,& George Bond, (both
of whom then lived in this neigh
bourhooii) to Mr. N. II me tner
chant in Granby, upon difeovery
of which,l caufed thole two men,
Gregory and B and, to be ur>pr-.*-
hended and fent to the Jail in
Camden ; but the crime having
been committed within the dii-
trift of Orangeburgti, th y were
removed to the Jail of that dif
ri ift for trial, and v;hch the trial
came on, the principal evidence
againft them did not appear but
fent his cxcufe for being abfent,
which being thought fuffieient
by the Judge, the laid two men
were admitted to bail, but they
never appeared afterwards to
take their, trial, the laid Bond
went to the lown of Kinglton in
this (tale on Waccamuw river,
where he died.—The laid Crc-
i gory removed (n$ I have been
told) out of this Hate ; he was
i the fbn of Mr. John Gregory
U. S vriif Vixen attacked.
Y. r e arc inform? t that on tho
24-th of June 1810, the United
States brig Vixen, Lieut. Trippe,
carrying 14 guns, on her way to
1 New-Orleans, uuderorders Ivor.:
f our government, -iear the Baha
mas was, in a war.ton and ur».
provoked manner fired into by
the Britilh (loop or war, the Mo-
felle, captain B >yce, rating 20
guns, 32 plunders—a '.> ? poun 1
fhot carried av/ay the main boom
of the Vixen, within a ffiort dif-
tanceof col Poindexter, a mem-
ber of congrefs who, with bis
family, had taken pafiage cn
board on his return from con-
grefs ; and a fpllhter from the
booth wounded flightiy Mr.
Rodney, fon of the attorney-
general cf the TJ States, who
likewise was on his way to New.
Orleans.
To the Citiz ’Hr cf Jones county
DESIROUS that you
fliould be acquainted with the
charafter of one on whom you
have been pleated to bellow a
i high and rtfpeftable office, and
drat you may know how far he
has m ,’rited your confidence, I
mult refer you to the publicati- ;
on of a Voter of our county, in
the Argus of the 19.h of Sep-:
tember lad, who affirmed to him i
fclf the freedom of atrefting the
propriety cf John R Gregory’s \
election, by a ftatemenc of char-1
ges which you will find not the!
ulispiiugof fpleen and malevo-j
lence, the ground cn which he
partly relies for his innocence,
you what power have you to , more for thorciwwa! of tl
fell a charter ? There is a power
in the eonftitutiouto fell the pub
lic property ; but there is car
ter. 1 am defirous to receive a
quid fro quo. The arguments a
bout foreign ftockholders have
taitily no power to leli privileges ; f 0 much effect on me, that
of any kind. I therefore move
you to (hike out the bribe, the
douceur the 'bonus, as gentle
men call it, of 1,250,000 dol
lars.
I would not contit ue this infti-
turion. unlefs government rcceiv
cd a beru fitirom it. It is unques
tionably true, that the habits,
cuftotns, manners and rlecitions
The above ftateMent ir. as cor
rect as my memory ferves me.—
Given under iny hand the date
above written,
Benjamin IVarins*
dif id.
Mr. Taylor faid that with ref-! of nations have cfiablilhcd acom-
pect to the principle of the go | mon gcurle of proceeding on this
yemincnt’s receiving a bonus ' ful.jeft, and we nut ft aft accord-
tor this monopoly, (lor he faid it i ing to cuitom. We now value
was unqueflionably a monopoly) a dollar at fo much, and a piece
thofe who were difpofed to con
tinue this charter jullified their ,
oonclufion from the inftrument
under which they afted—under
that ci.uufe v/hi^a fays that con
grefs mall hav" power to pafs all
jlaws neceffiwv and proper to car
ry into died ihepowtrs granted.
It' (faid Mr. T ) one banking in-
ofiron at fo much. The cuitom
ol nations, has given a fort of ;
common law control over thole !
inftitutions,and we tnuft aft with \
them as other na'ions do. I do j
not con fie cr it a biibU’ that I
but of indubitable authority to i C^. ac | c w ^ 1 ' ) ‘ a L ' ae
lupport them. He was charged j VK,m ^ oi thl l town *
with being apprehended in S. |
C arolina, <jc committed to Cam- |
den Jail, for counterfeiting and
puffing Indents. Let ns purfue
iiis conduct and fee how far the
turpitude of his heart prompted
him—You will find from the an
nexed certificates of high and
rcfpeftable chavafters that Gre
gory not content with the cotn-
miilion ol this offence alone, left
his bail to fuff.; for the wick
ed ne Is of his crimes by flying
from his country to the frontiers
of Georgia ; bur finding villainy
as aca liable as he could wifii,
and that by an aft or fubordina.
tion he could fmother his guilt; |
with all the effrontery of con- j
feious reftitude and with a pleaf
ing hope that he was fecure from j
, the reach of cenfure, offers him
i fclf as a candidate for th
; fhip of our county
S Carolina, Lex:. w
I, Nicholas llane of the vil
lage of Granby, Sate and diilrift
ctforefaid, do certify that, John
R. Gregory (who is believed to
be a refident of Baldwin county,
in the date of Georgia) former
ly a refident of Eaft Granby of
the fame fttato, and now Rich
land diftrift j do declare and cer
tify that on or about the year or
years of 1739 and 90, or 91 or
92, that the aforelaid John R-
Gregory did pafs to the lublcri-
her an indent which was proven
by the then exifting Treafurer
clerk i & en j Jml ift Waring to be a coun-
1 terfeit.--Certified by me this 5d
Accounts as late as the 'Oth
J of June are received from Cadiz,
j The French, Sprmilh and E::-
\ glifh continued firing at cadi c-
; ther lor amufement 1 An armed
force had failed for V- ra Cruze
for Specie.—Exchange Ccjfei
llouj'e Books.
I Mr. Windham, a member of
parliament, died on ihe 4th cf
j une.
j Three refolutions were paff.u
againft the Minifters by a mnj n *
ity cf ten, in the Houle of Com
mons, on tho 3 i ft of May The
fii ft. i'efolution was in fiver of
all praftical retrenchments in
the financial department, & puf
fed nem con. The i'econd was
for the abolition of all finecuros,
and, with an amendment in fa.
vor of filch perlons as are con.*
nefted with his maj. fly’s perfon,
palled 105 to 95.
Another refoiution paffed “that
it is expedient to reduce ail of
fices executed by deputy,fo the
falary paid for the aftual lervice,
and to require fecurity for the
due performance ”
The other refolutions of the
Finance committee were poft-
pojied. Thus the parliamenta
ry refonnifts have begun theif
work. London Paper.
Nicholas Here.
Read the 20th fedliori, of the lft | oi
article of the conftitution.
“ No perfon who hath been
or may be convicted of Felony
t a fair bargain. There feems
ftitution be nectff.iry and proper, to be no difpoftficn to abate a
and anfwers the purpole of aid- | farihing, but to have the value
ing us in the temporary loans it ! -mi nothing l< F
may be found advantageous to
indulge in, and we aft under
''thefe terms when we have fuifi!-
or the government are about to ; before any court of this ftatc, or
receive. On the contrary i think • any of the United States, fliall |
I do net wifh
to have mere. The pyovifions of
this bili, with fome amendments,
will give the trania&ion a charac
ter of perfeft fairnefs.
inditution coming up to the de- j Mr. Smilie faid that on this
finition of necdfiiry and proper, 1 queftion he differed materially
led thofe terms and created an
the power then ceafer. This be
ing a monopolizing inditution,
being fo although a handmaid
to the government, it was deem
ed fair, according to the princi
ples of national jultice, that they
fnould pay to the community &
to the people of the U. States,
an equivalent for that advantage,
and the decifion of the commit
tee was jullified not only by the
example of other governments
(jjfir gentlemen have quoted in
born his friend on his left. The|
word “ bribe” was not applica
ble to the bargain now about to
be made. I take it for granted
(faid he) there is but one ground
on which the Legifluture is juf-
tified in granting a monopoly ;
and that is, that it is necefiary
i:i the operations of the govern
ment. If that be the cafe, u r e
certainly have a right in granting
that monopoly, to make the belt
bargain for our own intcreft
be eligible to any office or ap
pointment of honor, profit or
trull within this Hate.”
But when arraigned at the bar
of public inveftigation, h. fufi
pends his defence until the eve
of ihe election, knowingir would
thereby preclude the peflibility
of a refutation ; and fummoned
to his aid his friend John Smith,
a wretch regardlefs of the obli
gation of an oath, and procured
or willingly differed him to per
jure hinilelf in tellimony of his
Innocence, when he knew him-
felt to be guilty.
It Fellow-Citizens, you can
rely upon the credibility of thefe
gentlemen’s certificates, whom
we have no reafon to diferedit
(or il nectff.u y I can obtain their
eicpofitions) will you not aban
don him at your next Clerk’s
Nowin Baldwin Jail,
.4^ N African Negro man a-
Latejlfrom Cadiz.
Capt. Bolen, who arrived ac
this port yefte’rday, in 35 days
from Cajiz, informs, thai about
the 25th of May, ?. battle was
fought by the E.iglifh Sc Porto
guele armies againft the French,
iu which the latter were defeat-
• ed. The communication be-
: tw’cen the befieging army of G.i»
I diz and Madrid was cut otf.—-
'The Englilh troops in Cadiz
j were preparing on the 2d of June
■ to make a fortieon the French.,
in confiqncnce of the news of
bout Thirty-five years ol the i r defeat On the frontiers of
agi, who fays hisname is John, Portugal, cxpccling that the Bri-
and that he belongs to Jonn let- tl p a andP<>ftug. efe army would
lum of^ Jones county. Ihe attack the French troops befreg*
owner is roqnefted to comply ; 1UT qS^iV.
...nk .1... I q. -...1-.. t.: 1 u. .
with the law & take him away.
John Mathews, J filer.
Anguft 15 20—tf
'i he bombardment of Mata-
i gorda from an oppt life fort wan
I lb lcvere, that the French had
j uifmounted their cannon at that
Admmiltrator’s Sale, i place, and the people in Cadiz
WILL BE SOLD, I were in very high (pints, and in
To the hightjl bidder at the late dwel- full expectation of getting rid uf
stag houjeof Cortiijb Davey, dee. in their invaik rs Flour was 2('
the town of miltduvUle, on Turf ; t ’ l0 l s . but the recent arrivals of
day the 18/5 of September, next, j foUr American vcffefs had vodu*
Hol ies, Cattle & Hogs* I ced the price.
Capt. B. further informs tin,*
(MOO troops had lecently arn-
...nfxEtrisE...
Hoijhola Fuj mitt re.
Terms made known on the day of
fale.
E. Nivey. Adm’trix.
John Malhcwi, Adm’r
Auiruft S. ]9--t<.'F,
ved, Jk that when he failed
trardports were beating in.
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BLANK DEEDS,
Fer Stic r.i this OjC•’