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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