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For the INTELLIGENCER.
THE ENQUIRY— A PASTORAL;
NO more I repose on the bank,
Where Phillis and I us and to ilray ;
Or drink of the dream where we drank,
For PhiHida now is .away.
On her form ■ O ! how oft would I gaze,
O’er the brook a£ (lie gracefully hung ;
And (he’d cry, if I offer’d to praise,
‘* ‘Philander ! now pray hold your tongue.
The virgin, ye fwaintf ! have ye seen ?
Her breath's like the Zephyrine gale,
.Go mild, and so rnodeft's her mien,
Site's the boast and delight of the vale.
And what if her eyesbelefs bright,
Than forne I have seen at the brook ?
She affords me much greater delight,
And raviff.es but with a look.
licr hair it is ebon and (lows
In thick-growing curls down her neck,
Which the pink, and the lilly, the rose,
And flow-drop contribute to deck.
Her form is all-grace if (lie (land,
But O ! if a limb (lie but moves ;
No swain can himfelf so command,
But he'll own in an aidant he loves.
There is more of the white than the red,
To be found in her ravijhing face ;
But alas ! frpm the vale (lie has fled,
Ah ! me can you tell me the place ?
No longer I now court the breeze,
All comfortlefs round me appears ;
All ! nothing Philander can please,
But that, which his Fhillida (hares.
I know that (he often will dally
For hours as onward the roves,
With each flow'r that grows in the valley,
Or feents with it's fvveetnefs the groves.
And perhaps so engag'd the dear maid,
Too dillant has rov'd o'er the lawn,
Now knows not the path (lie has (fray'd,
And withes (he never had gone.
Ah ! methinks now I fee inker eye,
IT 1 1 - fl •
And from her bosom the sigh,
While (he trembles all over with fear.
But ah ! this is fancy, if I
Could but know where my Phillis has A ray'd,
Not the spear or"the himtfman (hould fly
More celerous over the elado.
When F (lift told my passion (he figh'd,
And the tide of her bosom was high ;
It's fwelliug I knew was not pride,
And who could mifeonftrue the ligli ?
When I ventur'd, as silent we flood,
To plunder, unqueftion'd, a kiss,
Although (he declar’d I was rude,
Yet I saw (he partooic of the bliss.
Haw oft have I gaz'd on her charms,
While with palfion my bosom would throb ;
Ah ! fay from the clasp of my arms,
This treasure can fortune then rob ?
Adieu ! ye fond swains, I enquire
No more if you've ieen the dear maid—
Lo ! yonder's the ohieft of all my desire,
1 halle to her ever the ‘{lade,
“philander.
W ttk IN 1 ELLIGENCER.
TO take a retrofpeftive view of the corrupt
conduCb of the British government generally,
would be an arduous, though not unprofitable
talk. But every patriotic citizen of this free and
enlightened republic mull occasionally devote his
reflections towards the repeated and various de
predations, which that diabolical government has
committed upon our own rights as a free, sove
reign, and independent nation. The system of
England, is no other than a system of political
monopoly and commercial aggrandizement;
therefore upon the high seas, in order to support
tier arrogant pretensions, (lie perpetrates every
z£c ot cruelty, and in many instances has out
vied in lawless- barbarity the nioft debased and j
infernal pirates that ever embarked from AIJ
giers. Eel us, with the aid of our memories, j’
detail a few among the numherlefs encroach
ments of that depradatory and intolerant na
tion.
Xu the yeai 1/03, Oreat-Bfitnin, eager to
engrois the united commerce of the world,
plunged voluntarily and without any just cause, 1
into -Mwfare. In the month of November, du-!
ring the fame year, ferret Executive orders . s v:er?
issued to interrupt and prevent all intercourse
whatever with the French Ifiands. This wore
a semblance indeed of juffice, but it was only a
semblance. One belligerent certainly has a
right to do all (he can to injure her adversary,
but this blockade of the French Ifiands did no
harm to Bonaparte—it only deprived their mha
bitants of a few comforts, and did materially in
jure our sales and’ markets. I hat was the ob
ject of the secret Executive orders—they were
levelled at the rising prosperity of our country.
Since the said year 17013, the conduit of Eng
land towards America has displayed nothing but
a temper hollile to our commercial advancement.
The difgraceful concefiions, which Jay (looped
to reconcile, indeed promised us a little cessation
of violence. But when Jay had conceded so
much, every refieiling mind mult have concluded
Great Britain would have taken more. Home
commenced new depredations, within our terri
torial jurisdiction, in the waters of Rhode-Ifland i
and the Englifti consul, Moore added to former
infolenee upon our very foil. The last we pack
ed off—the other we had notin our power—but
he, like other marauders of England, was imme
diately promoted by the Bntifli government, for
his insolence and unlawful conduit.
In 1795 the Britiih cabinet promulgated
orders, that our provision vessels (hould be car
ried in. President Wafiiington wa3 so much
alarmed by thele orders, that he explicitly avow
ed, he would never assent to the ratification of
the Treaty, until the feerflion of such orders.
These, and hundred other acts of aggves
fion upon our fpvcreigntv, only tend to evidence
the hoffik difpufition of England towards this
country, ‘i'he recent events, which have fa
kindled nniverfal indignation only have a
tendency to corroborate the fadft ; and for a na
tion to put faith in Great Britain, is as filly, as
for one man to put faith in another, who is noto
rious for dishonesty, and tv ho lias juff been re
lieved by the Bankrupt Act.
CANDIDUS.
THE- PRISONER.
No. 11.
“ Frail man, ham various is ihy lot below
Today though gales propitious blow,
To-morrow the gay scene deforms :
Then all around
The thunder's sound,
Rolls rattling through the heavens profound,
.i j ... _a< ,.t. SV . ..”
We now from the feelings of the unfortunate
debtor, relative to his family, come to view the
e(Teels which confinement has upon himfelf.—
Previous to his induction into the gloomy abodes
of misery, he poffefied corredt notions of honor,
his heart beat in unison with virtue, and its sym
pathies were alive to the voice of the mourner.
He had the mod intereftfrrg motives to awaken
to niduftry : Fame, fortune, a parent’s hopes,
ail united to arouse his energies. But now, alas i
behold the change ! he is now a hftlefs, flothful
being ; and if grief and sorrow have not render
ed him diffracted, apathy lias taken poffefiion of
ais fouL Inltead of fympathifing with his fel
low fufferers, with a ghastly grin, or in fulleu
silence, he regards them, as viftims of man’s in
humanity—lie retires within himfelf—he confi
ders that he is a blank in creation—the links
which connedted him with society are snapped
alunder, and he becomes a Misanthrope ; or
perhaps, driven to the brink of misery, and hav
ing every hope and flay wrenched from him, he
fecks relief to his perturbed mind, and endeavors
to drown his cares, by indulging to excess in the
exhilirating pleasures of the bottle. Poor an
tidote, alas 1 for a wounded spirit! but one
which is too frequently applied. For feelim*
himfelf an infolated being and deprived of ration
al enjoyments, he indulges this unhappy pro
pensity, until his mind is debauched—and his bo
dy diseased—viewing himfelf now as degraded’
in the fight of h:s fellow men, he loses those nice
moral diitindftionj. which constitute the chief
charm of exiffence, and gives a loose to hi3*unru
Iy pafiions; for as wave succeeds wave on the
boisterous ocean, so one improper indulgence, or
one vicious habit, leads to other errors and to
other crimes. Behold a once well regulated
mind now a chaotic mafs—hi* emaciated body ‘
bloated, and bearing on its front the marks of :
misery—with horror he looks backward ; and in
the agony of despair he anticipates his future]
doom ; and turning his languid eye toward his
hard hearted creditors, he exclaims in all the
Luxury of Woe, ’ “ Man, behold now ihy re
venge is complete.”
| Again, let us suppose the poor debtor emer
ging into freedom after months and years of
wretched slavery—see him look on his cold bloo
j persecutors as irreconcilable foes. Versed
j now in the perfidy of man—and from the nog
leeft of his quondam friends, he regards the
whole race ot mankind as unfeeling cunning
knaves—Slander and reproach, the concomitants
of poverty, Jiave Halted hU cliaradler, and with ■
an assassin’s hand have stabbed his reputation
Without money, friends, and a bank
rupt in character—in what walk of life can he
expedft to procure an honed livelihood—his for
mer companions (him hun, his former fiiends
treat him with cool indifference —and society at
large regards him as an alien. What then are
his comforts ? from whence can his pleasures
lpring ? he can only aflbeiate with, the debated
and vicious part of the community, and with
them he plunges into follies, and into crimes ;
thus he who might have been an ornament to
humanity and an honor to his country, on ac
count, of this unjust and cruel law, becomes a
scandal to his family and a curse to society at
large. These, fellow citizens, are but feint
traits of the misfortunes and the crimes which
follow in the train of this barberous law. Refledt
seriously upon them I befecch you ; and may
that Great Being who “ maketh his fun toarife
on the just and on the unjust, inspire you with
wisdom, and enable your legislators to temper
juffice with mercy—and to officiate truly the
general happiness of society.
BENEVOLUS.
PHILADELPHIA, 08. 30.
Yesterday arrived ihelhip Neptune,
Capt. Jeffrie*, 60 days from Peters
burg. On the 4th ol Sept, he Hop
ped at ELincur, and failed front thence
the 51b, this piaec he fti'l found in
(he hands ot the Danes, who did duty
at ihe callle, though they fnppoiecl
(hould Copenhagen fall, ihzy (hould
he obliged to submit a ! fc>. Here lit
learned that Copenhagen (till held out
and \as determined so to do, to the
last extremity. That the Britiih had
opened their batteries for 8 or ic
days previous to his being there. —
That tlley cannonaded but little
there was but little hringirl the day ;
but through the night they kept up a
continual bombardment ; that they
had several times let the town of Cos
penhagen on fire, which vtfas as often
extinguished; thatthe niglu before he
failed (being that 0} the 4th} the Brrt
j ifh had again let the town on fire,
| which ieeijied to burn fprioully, as
1 long as e.;pt. J. was in fight,
i In the Sound he saw above 40 0
fail of vessels, viz. men of war, trans
-1 ports and vessels detained by she Bti
jtifb. He did tiot anderftand that the
Bri iffi had made any attempts on Co
penhagen by lea, but depended aiio
; get he r on their land troops. One
Britiih frigate approached too near
1 the Crown Batteries, was obliged to
fur render to the Danes,
i Capt. Jeffries left Peferfhurg the
latter end of Aupuft—while there, he
neither heard or law any thing bite
war about to commence with Eng
land, as has been reported ; but the
Britiih vefleh, of which the re were a
great number at Cronftadr, and the
British merchants seemed to be car
rying on their business in every ref
pcß as peaceably as formerly.
T he Ruffians blame the Englifli for
leading them into the war, and fay
they loft above roo, oqq men in it fur
no purpofc.
Education.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
/ EoPECTFULLY informs his friends 2nd
the public, that he has commenced TEACH
; ING, at theSchool-Room occupied by Mr. D.
D. Williams who ha3 now resigned the profession
in his favor. The most punctual attention will
bepaid to the morals and improvement of those
Children who will be entrusted to his
Ample reference will be given to any who may
be desirous of investigating the subscriber’s mo
ral character and conduct, as a Teacher.
MICHAEL BARRETT, Tutor.
A IGHI SCHOOL will commenccat the
moresaid School-Room, on the Evenir, t c fthc
first day of December next.
November 17
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
MILLEDGEVILLE, November S.
Monday last being the constitutional day “ 0
the meeting of the General Afi'erably of w
state, a number of the members of both !)-,
ches met in their fefpedtive chambers, j n { v
State-houfc on that day. A fufikient nirtrib
of the members of the Senate having
to form a quorum, that body proceeded toi
choice of a President and Secretary, when th
hon. Robert Walton, Esq. was eledled to tk
former, and William Robertfbn, Esq. o .’
latter appointment. The ReprefentativriU,
ing on Tuesday formed a house, proceeded to \
appointment of Speaker and Clerk, to the iV,
mer of which, the hon. Benjamin Whitaker,
duly elected, and to the latter Hines Holt, £[„
After the organization of both
ing been made known to the Governor, hi, £ s ;
cellency made the following Communication ;
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the
House of Reprcfcntatives,
THE period for the annual co?v°-
tion of the Legiffature having again revolted, j
cheerfully proceed to difcb?.rge the duty enjem.
ed upon me by the Bth feftion of the 2d article
of the Conftitirtion, so far as .to lay before voj
the occurrences during the last years adminis
tration, with which, it appears to me neceffah
you (hould he made acquainted.
Immediately after the adjournment of
Legiffature, in December last, I wrote the Cor.
ernoriof North-Carolina, apprising him of the
measures which had been adopted by this ft .te,
for an of the - differences-between the
two- states, relative to boundary, 3nd amr.ge.
ments were made for a meeting of the Comras
(loners appointed for that purpofc, which toe’s”
place at Buncomb Court-honfe, in North-Car?,
iina, on the 15th of June last. Picket'No. 1,
contains copi?3 of the letters, which passed K
t-.veen the Governor of N. Carolina and myfelf,
aird a copy of the report made to me by the
commissioners on the part of this state, by which
you will perceive, that agreeably t'o the aftre*
nomical observations of the artists who attended
‘the commissioners, under the authority cf the
two dates, upon afeertaining the 35th degree and
N. latv Walton county will be found to be within
the limits of N. Carolina. I flattered ntyicl’
that when the meafurcs, which were adopted
by the last General Afiembly, relative to tMf
fubjett, bad been carried into execution, Wa’.
ton county would have claimed the rtUentiorni
the Legiffature for no other purpose, than the
pafiage of such laws ns might be deemed ntcef.
fary for its better organization ; but by advert,
ing to the report of our commi'lioncr?, it 1 will
be ieen that a law of a far different nature is •
pefted. To your confider-ation, therefort, 1
submit this iubjedl, not doubting, but that the
result of your deliberations'v.’: 11 be such as policy
and juffice didate,
The jullices of the inferior court of Chathats
county, conceiving they had right so to do, on
the It hr of May last made an order for the rtme.
val from office cf Edward White, Esq. the clerk
of the court of ordinary fox that county, and as.
pointed Thomas Bourke, Esq. in his place,*
I gain ft the coriumlfioning of whom, Mr. Whit;
•protested, on the ground that the court had not
■ the power to remove their clerk from oißce at
pleafere. Having fame dcubt3 myfelf as to the
court’3 poffefling this power, I thought proper
i to require an opinion from the solicitor-genera!
of the middle diftrid .(he being nearer to me tharv
either of the oihef ftr.tes attornies) after which
and prior to any decificn'by me cu the quefticn,
the court furniffied me with the opinion of tbs
attcrney-gene'i'al, which being at variance with
(Mr. Waikers, I addreUed the solicitor for the
j western diftridft ou the fubjedt,- whose opiniwi
‘concurring with that of the solicitor for tie
middle diftridft,- which is, that the corin’
have not the power to remove their clerk after
he has been cemrarffioned by the Governor, I
j determined 1 not to corifider Mr. White out of
office, and therefore rtfufed to commifHmi Mr.
Bourke. The court, notwithfta'nding this do
cifion, arrelled the records and papers belong
ing to the office of clerk of the court of ordinary
of Chatham county, from Edward. White, aid
jmt them into the pofleffion of Mr. Bourke, re
cognizing him only as clerk of that'court. The
Executive viewing, therperfon who has been con*
missioned, under the exprels law of the land,!!
tire only or.e nuthorifed to difenarge the duties
of clerk of the court of ordinary of Chatham
county, until properly removed, and the inferior
court having appointed another penffm to that
office,, whole proceedings alone they iandftios,
the interpolation of fume other tribunal appeals
to me necefiary. It is therefore -that I had
thought proper to trouble you with this brie
nefs. All the documents relating to it, will Li
found in packet No. 2.
I regret that it is not in my power to state to
you, that the conduct of our red neighbours was
as peaceable during the last year's administration,
as it had been for several years back. By the
documents marked no. 3, you will find that on
the 2.Bth of May last, near Trader's hill, in
Camden .county, a cruti a:;-.l unprovoked mink
der was committed by two Indians, of the