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ELEC7A-MT • EX TZ ACT. [We regret that we have not room to i life it the eloquent arid argumenta tive Speeches of the Counsel engag ed 6:r the Trial of Cos). Burr, on ■’ the motion to arreflthe Evidence in the cafe„of TreaXon. We cannot, however, forbear from cxtraßing . the fallowing companion which Mr. Wirt, (one of the Coanlel for the profecutioh) draws of ti e two tr.ofi confpicucas clmraciers i.i the c<>n [piracy, Burr and Elannerhasset. Whether the Fvie of this Speech is ftrittlv of that fpccics cf forenfic eloquence, molt proper feu the bar, we will not decide : ‘i hole familiar r - “vui the eloquence of the late Lord Chancellor of England and ilill more with those of the celebrated Curran, wifi immediately recognise , the refemblaucc, an 1 may poftblc think with us, that the American Bar rider does net Pilfer in the com panion with either.J (Ch. Times) j <s Who then is Arran Burr, and what the part which he has borne in this trar.s idciiota ? lie is l.s stitl.o. ; ns prcpA.!- c:; us aflive executor. Bold, ardent, rciilefs, an 1 afpiftng, his brain corseti vedit; his hand brought it into action. Beginning his operations in Me v-York, he a!rociatcs *.v.th !iiin rnen v. hufe wealth is to iopplv the necellary fund-,. Pof frffed of the main i’priug, ids personal labor contrives a!) the machinery.— Pervading the continent from New- York to New-Orleans, he draws into his plan, by an allurement which he tan contrive, men of ail ranks and all defcripdons Yu youthful ardor he prtdents danger a::i glory; to ambi tion, rank and titles, and honors; to avarice, the mines of Mexico. To cacti per fun whom he addresses, he pffTents the objects adapted to his tafie; his recruiting chicers are ap pointed ; men are engaged through cut the continent; civil life is indeed quiet upon its fur face; biu in its bo fosri tnis man has contrived to depoht the materials, vhh which the flighted touch, of his match produces an ex-: plofion to shake tlte continent. Ail; this his r< ftlefs ambition has contrived -—mJ in the autumn cf iScS, he goes forth for the Sail time to apply this! match. On this excursion, he meets! with BfannerhafTct. “ Who is BflanncrhafTett? A native of Ireland, a man of letters, who fled ! from the ftoims of h:s own country,! to find quiet in ours. Hishiftoryj shews, that war is not the natural de ment-of hi> mir.d; if it had been, he would never have exchanged Ireland for America. So far is an army from i i urnifhing the foctety natural and pro pi r to Mr. BUnnefhaflett's character, that on his arrival in America, he re turd even from the population of the Atlantic States, and fought quiet soli tude in the bosom of our weftero fo rdL. But he carried wuh him ufie •nd science, and wealth; and “ 10, the deik-rt finiled.” Polfefling him E liot a beautiful ttland in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace, and deco rates it with every romantic embel lithSientof fancy.’ A shrubbery that Shenitpne might have envied, blooms around him; mulic that might have charmed Calypso and her nymphs, is his; an extenlive library spreads its treaiiires before him ; a philosophical apparatus offers to him all the fccrcts and tnyfterics of nature; peace, tran qnilin, and innocence, ihed their mingled.delights around him; and to crown the enchainment of the feene, a vjte, who is {aid to be lovely even beyond h"t f x, and graced with every ectdmp'iifhei shat can render it me fiftibh, had bleflcd him with her love, •ml made him the father ol her chil tiien. ihe evidence would convina ) ou, fir, that tins is but a faint pic tnre ot ih? seal life. In the mid ft oi ‘all this peace, this innocence and Iran qtiihty, this lead or the mind, this pun Jbanquet of the heart—the deflroyet come.a-—he comes to turn this paradif iiiMi 4 bdl—y ct the flowers do not wither at his approach, and no moni tory fhudclering through the bosom of their unfortunate pofieffors, warns i;!>esi of the ruin that is coming upon 1 ! them. A tlranger presents himfelf. Introduced to their civilities by the high rank which he had lately held in this country, he soon finds his way to their hearts, by the dignity and eie-j gar.ee of his demeanor, the light and! ! beauty of his convei iation, and the ftrdußive and fafeinating power of his address. The conqucd was net a dis ficuli one. Innocence is ever simple and credulous; conscious of no de sign itfelfj it fuTpefiing none i.a others; it wear's no guards before its bread; every door and portal, ari l avenue of I the heart, is thrown open, and all who ! ehoofe it enter. Such was the Hate iof Ederf, when the serpent entered the bowers. The .prifyncr in a more en gaging form, winding him fid f into the open and unprat'd fed heait of tint up. for lunate Blannernaflctf, found but little difficulty in changing the native character cf that heart, and the ohjcbVs of its affection. By degrees he itifu fes into the potion of his own ambi tion ; be breadies into it the. firco! o.j o.*i courage; a itu*t..g artel a del* perate third for glory; an ardor pant ing for all the dorms and butile am: hurricane of life. In a Snort time the whole man is changed, and every ob jcß cf his former delight relinquished I Mo more he enjoys the tranquil fcer.e ; u has become ikt and insipid to his palate.; his books are abandoned ; his retort ari l crucible are thrown aside ; his shrubbery blooms and breathes its fragrance upon the air in vain; he likes it net—his car no longer drinks the rich melody of music; it longs for the trumpet’s clangor and the cannon’s roar; even the prattle of his babes, once so fwcet, no longer affects him ; and the angle smiles or his wife, which hitherto touched bis bosom with ceda cy IB unspeakable, arc now unfelt and unseen. Greater objetls have taker, poljeifion of his foul—his imagination has been dazzled by vidons of dia j drnr, and liars, and garters, and titles ol nubility ; he has been taught to burn with redlefs emulation at the names of Cromwell, Casar and Bo naparte —His enchanted if] and is dt'lined soon to rclapfe into a defart; end in a few months we find the ten der and beautiful partner of his bo som, whom he lately “ permitted not she winds of” summer 51 to visit too : roughly,’ we find her shivering at midnight on the banks of the Ohio,’ and mingling her tears with the tor-’ rents that froze as they fell. Yeti thus unfortunate man, thus deluded; from his imereU and happinefs—thus’ seduced from the paths of innocence! and peace—thus confounded in the 1 toils which were deliberately spread! for him, and overwhelmed by the 1 tnatlering lpirit and genius of another ■ —This man thus ruined and undone, j and made to play a subordinate part in this grand drama of guilt and trea-j ffm—This man is now to be called 1 the principal offender; while he, by: whom he was thus plunged and itcep eu in misery, is comparatively inno cent-—a mere acceffary ! Sir, neither the human heart, nor the human un deritanding, will bear a perversion so moniirous and absurd ; so (hocking to the foul; so revolting to reason. O’j no, Sir. There is no man who knows* any thing of this affair, who docs not ! know, that to every body concerned; in it, A Alt ON BURK was as the | fun to the plannets that surround him;’ he bound them in their refpedive or- i bits, and gave them their light, their 1 beat and their motion. Let him not; then (brink from the high definition! which he has courted; and having! .already ruined B'annerhaffet in for- 1 tune, character, and hap pine fa for.ev-i •ver, attempt to finifh the tragedy, by bruiting that til-lated man between himfelf and pumihment.” IVanied Immediately , /in /■ .?iw atgrn Boy about 16 of agi. et ‘t&s <>s!*> 22..:.60 ! For tha INTEL LICENCER. SAVANNAH, October 12, ISO 7. Messrs. M'Lccn ar.d Barr.::, Gsmtlsmex, I fend you for publication in your- nest I::TEtL)GENC£R , a (ketch of the life cf General Elbeit, and I (hall occasionally furnish you with biographical accounts of the revolutionary heroes and patriots of Georgia, until my Hiilory ;3 completed. This charaAer of Elbert, with a few alte rations, is taken from the files of papers deport ed with me by tlte friends cf the late General Jackson, whole life will appear, as soon as fuff- j cier.t lcifare is afforded me to fuprrintend the j publication of. I mail not as was 01 iginally pro- j pored incorporate the life cf Jackson, With a Hiftoryofthe Revolution in this (late”—it will be a dillincb volume. This deviation from the arrangement fubmlttedto the public feme months ago, will place it in my power to do moie com plete juliice to the ehiracter cf the General as a Magillrate, a Legdator and a Citizen. There are certain events in his life, which could not without wreat incongruity, be aiTociated with his .n litary ferviees, during the revolution. Some other reafens have iniluer.ced me iu changing my plan. In writing a hiilory of the revolution in this (late, I ought ar.d (hall diveil the work of El estrar.eouo matter: and unbiaflbd by the prejudices of fricndfhip, 1 ought and (hail endea vor to diilribute with an impartial hand, t'ne . hard earned laurels, of every patriot officer, who taught, or bled, or ciaCci * n the femce of his coun* ti"-r. There are many of the revolutionary heroes of Georgia, (hitherto unnoticed) who performed acts of l.ercif.a, and evinced a stoicism ia the hours of* carnage and danger, which if faithfully and minutely related, place them upon a level with the patriot-heroes of any nation ancient or modem. Their names, their valour, and their fEfer :ngs, (hall be refeued from cbvilian, & though the narrative may not be didinguithed by those talents wlr.cn would procuie it univerfai attention, yet I latter myfelf with the hope, that it will prove (efficiently ir.tereiting to every Cstizeh of GEoaGta. THOS. U. P. CHARLTON. * 1 shall at some futur: period give art instance of this kind of heroic apathy in the condud of Ed* ■ward Loyd at the siege of Savannah. A SKSTC3 Os Tits ZIFS Os GENERAL ELBERT. General Samuel Elbert, to ufethe expres sion of gen. Lee, (of Col. Hctu-y Lee) was born a soldier, and his fondnefs for taAics was evinced even in childhood. The forming little compa nies, and teaching them the exercise was bis prin cipal amusement, and this attachment to the aft military increased with his years. He was early appointed an officer of the Georgia Provin cial Militia, under Britifii government, but this did not fatisfy his mind. In the year 1772, he formed the plan of a volunteer grenadier compa ny, which President Hr.berffiam, in the ebfence of Governor Wright who (on account of Mr. Elbert’s priciples ) would not have conferred to if had he been present—gave him a comir.iffion to raise, and Mr. Elbert immediately after at his own expence repaired to London, to perrtdl himfelf in the duties of military life. On his re turn, his attention was chiefly fixed on perfedtiny his corps. Their proficiency was such as to be come celebrated in the southern provir.es, anu on the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, it furnilhed many of the mod diltingukhed officers in the Georgia line, and fc-veral who entered that of South Carolina—its march (the Georgia Gre nadiers) ccmpofed by Alexander, is ilill extant in the Britifii Books of Mulkk, and is an excel lent corapoiition. In 1775, when Georgia had acceded to the Union, and it was determined, that troops ihotild be railed for the defence of the Colony, Mr. Elbert was appointed 111 colo nel of the Id Georgia regiment, under colonel MTntodi, which regiment was principally difei plined by him. The compliment paid to it, by general Lee on his coming to Savannah, in 1776, was that it was equal, if not superior, to any the United States. Mr. Elbert was afterwards appointed colonel of the 2d regiment, aud soon a Brigadier General of the U. State, He diftin gtiilhed himielf on many occafious previous to the fall of Savannah, in 1773. Had general Hcwe followed his advice on that occasion, and detached a portion of his army with feme field pieces to Brevvtens Hill, where the enemy laud ed, ar.d marched up a Angle dam 10 feet wide, wltild the adjacent rice field was inundated in all probability, the Britifii attempt would have been fruit rated with imm?n£i loss, and the check would have given time ?cr reinforcements, and might have prevented the loss of Savannah. But ger.errl Ho we, was a general sui generis and thought if ungenerous to take advantage of an ene my. The cofequence was, that the Baitifh ef ieited tneit landing, and general Howe drove to effsft a retreat, which till that moment- h-i had ridiculed, ordering gem Elbert with the G*ir, gia line to cover it: but the Br.tiih light infan. try, had already turned his right flank, where the only refinance was made by col. Walton and the militia, and the Generals retreat became a p er . feft route, without system regularity or order. General Elbert, ildl kept the Georgia line cor.:, padl, but on approaching toward the only road, on which a retreat could be effedted the spring hill, be found the reil of the army had pafhd and the enemy in pcflefiioa of it, ami wa3 ob liged to file off for Yamacraw, in hopes of meet ing boats to cross Mufgraves creek of about 20 yards wide. In this he was disappointed, and ! the main body of the enemy pressing him, he was obliged to leave the greatell part o f his brave brigade, who could rot swim, to capitulate, cr. dering ail who could swim to cross the creek with him. With the remains of the line, he reached Purkburgh, and was soon detached with them to join Major General Alh, cf N. Carolina, j and to make an incursion into Georg:?.. They crolfed Savannah River, and drove the Eiitii'.. who were at Aagulla, as far as Bryer creek ; when gen. Alh, confident in his fucccfa bcccr.e .negligent of hi camp. Gen. Elbert, rem-m. il.-aixd, but in vain—Adi was the fupciior off:, cer, and would command : but he wanted t forefight aud ability which Elbert poifcfTcJ to do so. Elbert pronounced the.r fate, and it so happend. The Britifii made a forced march, erofied the creek 12 miles above them by right, and next day completely surprised the American camp. The North Carolinians (truck with a panic, never were able to form, and indeed the bed half of them never attempted it, but flung their.Live3 into Savannah river or difperh-d ii the adjacent woods. Elbert had his brigade compelled of the remains of the line, the light infantry of Savannah, and fome militia, prepared for the event, and wounded in his fedir.gTi v fome unwarrantable censures on his conduit, ter leaving his brigade at Savannah, and fvrir'irfi g I.lufgraves creek, was determined to die rather than retreat. Henddrefltd his gallant brethren in a fe'vv words, and they swore to die with him. ‘i'hey were had to the charge, and a leveie ac tion took place : but overpowered by momberj, deserted by the army, and one half ox his fv ‘I force being either killed or wounded, humari / and cotnpaiTion to his brave corps demanded that 1 he fiiould accept an offer of quarters, and he end i they became prisoners of war—ar.d with t'.is j action the whole Georgia line, v.t.is annihilated • 5 the prisoners being either compelled to erfut ia ’ Britilh regiments, or to go cn board Britifii cri fe u (hips, ficm whence not one in t:n escaped. The General was a ccr.fiderablc time prifov. r within the Britifii l.ncs and lubjetled to many de grading iufults, nctwithilanding which, he was i rdpeded by their principal officers, as cr.c cf their moil formidable opponents. After his li beration not having a command, he retired.with his family to Maryland, until the attach ott A’ork town, by the French, and American forces, where the Commander iu Chief called him Sp ain into fevvice. After the perxe he was mad? major general of all the militia of Georgia, and in 1781, was ay. 1 pointed Governor of that (late. His fellovv j citizens in their private societies were happy in : conferhig their honors on him, and in 2785, he was made Grand Mailer of the honorable aid ancient focicly of Free Muffins in the flats cf Georgia. He died in 1783, aged 45. There are few chan,fieri, whole’ lives were spent to greater public advantage’and whole deaths were more fincerciy regretted. He oas a soldier witheut arrogance , and a patriot ‘cciib'.Lt affectation, of easy manners, a majestic form, ar.d of winning address, and if he had been so fortu nate as to have served in the grand army at the northward, under the immediate eye cf general Walhington,- cr had not been trammelled to the ffiuthward by officers of superior rank, and infe rior ability, the hiilcrians who have been nearly filer.t would have filled the page with those prai ses the character of an Elbert deserves. A county iu Georgia is named Elbert, in honor of . him. For the IN / ELL ICE ACER. , Messrs. Enrrcns, A writer in the lad Mufeun has come {cr. ward, who defence immortality for h:3 wonder ful produ&ion. The infigmikant rales cf grammar he holds in total contempt, and nobly violates every rule of syntax. He tells us that “ patience and fortitude is admirably, calculated to fuilain the rr.ind."—He talks muck about “ demigods,” and he surety deserves to be ranked among them after giving such a valiant defiance to ail grammatical rules, even in the teeth of every difeerning reader. The poor fellow docs net know the disposition and the fentimer.ts of that faithful character, Mr. Bryan. He ; 3 an ene. my to tyranny in any fi.ape, and a decided op ponent to Scotch and F.nglilh renegadbes, who while they amass thousands under the protc.clioii of, our government, ilill ungratefully abuse it. As to our defponder.ee, this fanatical writer fare* -y docs not comprehend us, or he would not suppose we felt the (mailed degree of it. We ted Fir. Bryan, that it is our pride and cou(- latton, hint tlicur li u-ogliih influence has pre # j vailed in this little feflion of the date, dill that a . large majority <,f lioaeft will