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The GEORGIA JOURNAL AND Independent Federal Register. Pub. inia a Vol. I.] RICHMOND, (Virginia) Nov. 4. At a numerous meeting of the citi zens of the county of Amelia, at the court house, on Thursday the 24th of Oftober, 1793, (they being pre viously notified to attend for the pur pose of taking into confident tion the existing fhte of politics in the United States of America) Everard Meade was choien chair man* and John Roy all, secretary : the following citizens were then appointed a committee to pre pare resolutions, viz. William Mur ray, Richard Archer, Edward Ward, John Wiley, David Meade, Plealant Roberts, Abraham Greene, and Wil liam Merewether, v\ho reported the following, which, being severally read to the people, were unaninioufly agreed to: Refolv and, That it is an inherent right in the people, to assemble to gether whenever they may judge pro per, and with order and decency to cxprefs their sentiments in their in dividual capacities, refpefting their natural and political rights. As the sense of this meeting, there fore, Resolved , That the government of these United States ought to be ‘'Scrvd upon a fair and honed interpretation of the conflitution, as explained to the people at the time of its adoption, and so long as it is thus administered, it ought to be vigorous ly supported ; but whilst we declare our firm and decided attachment to the conflitution, we cannot help ex prefling our apprehensions for its fafe ty and preservation, in consequence of lundry attempts made upon its fun damental principles, by the fubtilry of conjhufiion. That these attempts are the more alarming, as (hey are evi denced not only by bold and ingenious newspaper publications, but are evi dently seen in foftie official recommen dations to congress. Resolved, ‘I hat we view all such attempts as manifeftly intended to bring about a radical change in our government, and to aflimilate it to that of Great-Britain, thus to effeft an object through the silence and fub tilty of conflruftion, which could not be effefted by a plain and honefl ad dress to the underflandings of the people. Xh objeft seems, and the effefts of their fucceis would be, the ag grandizement of a few, through the oppreflion and at the expence of the \ many. The authors of luch attempts, therefore, we conceive unworthy of i the public confidence, and that they | ought to be held up as marks of the | just odium of every real friend to the jj government. Resolved, That the.eminent services i rendered by our fellow-citizen George | JVafhingtm, president of the United I States, during our late struggles for | liberty,demand and receive our warm- I eit gratitude—moftcordial affeftion— | and highest admiration—and in the I prefen t agitation of the public mind, I his patriotic virtues afford a hope, that | the conflitution of the United Stares 4may be prelerved inviolate ainidft its various assaults ; proportionate to the ■confidence we feel in our beloved pre- “ WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS, THERE IS MY COUNTRY.”— Franklin. SAVANNAH: PRINTED BY JAMES CAREY, ON THE BAY, NEAR THE COFFEE-HOUSE. fident, do we feel a detestation of lundry newspaper publications, im puting to him improper motives in the aft of ilfuing the late proclamation, importing neutrality. This act we have leen represented, even by its pretended advocates, and his pre tended friends, as grounded upon the moft daring afiumption of ungranted authorities, and in its operation not in tended to be confined within thecon ftitutional reftriftion of pronouncing upon the existing laws, and state of the nation : Tlius inculcating an idea, that tile president would prefer an administra tion founded on the tenure of high prerogative, to the more mild and effeftual support springing from the confidence and virtuous affeftioils of his fellow.citizens. We declare that we view the au thors of such publications as alike un friendly to the people and president ; the doftrines they inculcate as tend ing to introduce a conflift of opinion in the public mind, which may prove dangerous to the public tranquility ; and we conceivea belief of the motives aferibed to the president, would lie celTirity eventuate in removing from him rile confidence of the people. Resolved, That we deprecate a state of war as the greatest political evil, and of courle ihould with reluctance enter into the present war in Europe with any of the bslligerant powers ; we fhouid at the fame time feel a peculiar and inexpreflible horror in being drawn into a war with France, by any misunderstanding between the agents of the two nations, since we believe that France is engaged.in a catife, upon the event of which the political rights of man do effentialiy depend. Resolved, That the true interest of the United States dictates the ob servance of peace, and in our present delicate situation with the powers at war, the moft honorable and effeftual means of securing that end, would conlift in a ftrift adherence to our en gagements with France, on a fair and candid interpretation thereof, and a diicharge of those duties towards other powers at war, which the laws and cuiloms of nations have hereto fore established as the proper rules of conduft to be observed between na tions similarly circumstanced. Resolved, That the generous and effectual aids renderedusby the French nation during our own great efforts for liberty, ought to (lamp on every American mind, the moft lasting im pressions and affeftionate regards to wards the French people; and when we contemplate their present afflicting struggles for securing to themselves the lame inestimable bleffiag, we can not help fympathifing with them in all their successes and misfortunes; nor can we remain unmindful of the late generous advances made by the French nation, for cultivating th<? friendfflip and promoting the mutual benefits of the existing connection between France and America, particularly evidenced by their own affeftionate declarations, and by the liberal privi leges granted to American commerce : SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1793. these circumstances become more in_ terqfting, when contrasted with the various iiupofitions and reftriftions which mark the commercial regula tions of Great-Britain towards these United States. Resolved, That With peculiar and painful concern, we have of late ob lerved the moft indecent attempts, though thinly disguised, to separate the affeftions of tjie American people, from the cause of France, with a view to a more intimate connexion with Britain ; that we cannot help con., nesting those attempts with those of a liinilar kind, levelled at our own conflitution, as forming one joint system of attack upon the great princi ple of political liberty ; nor can we avoid thinking but that our Own funded debt, from its imitative con ftruftion and operation with that of Britain, has had its effeft in impelling this dangerous conduft ; declaring ourselves the firm and decided friends of the republican form of government, as the only effeftual means of eltab lilhing and securing the political Rights of Man, we cannot fufficiently express our detestation of all such at tempts — and whilst we hope, and trull, that their effefts upon the A merican mind will be but partial and tranlitory, we conceive their authors have excited the just and lasting in dignation of an intuited people. Rfolved, That having remained to this late period, the attentive ob servers of all newspaper publications, as well as the opinions of our fellow citizens exprefled in various resoluti ons and addrefles refpefting the con cluft of the French minister, citizen Genet, we cannot difeern any fuffiti ent authentication of the improper conduft imputed to him, for which he seems to have incurred the ten* sure of a great proportion of the American people. Venerating the principle, that no man ought to be condemned or pm nilhed before the faft imputed to him Ihall be duly and circumstantially au thenticated to his judges ; we there fore cannot help exprefling our re gret at these proceedings, as tending in fome degree,to impugn the delicacy of the American charafter towards foreign agents resident amongst us, as indirectly invading the established inviolability of foreign ministers, and as unnecessarily irritating the French people, who would naturally parti cipate with her representative in the feelings which flow from the conduft observed towards him ; whilst: we declare our firm belief that the best of motives in a great majority of our fellow citizens have diftated the ex pression of our sentiments towards the French minister, yet we flatter our selves that the difference between these expreflions and our own impres sions relative to the fame fubjeft, may be attributed in fome degree to the operation of a sudden impulse, ex cited by the deceptive reprefentarions of designing men, and to a laudable, but hasty zeal, for supporting ihe president in the difeharge of his func tions ; we conceive that eve are the more authorized to indulge this ielea, as the circumstances attending the im puted conduft of the French minister have not yet been disclosed to the public, and it is presumable that the lame impetuous zeal, which diftated the firlt alarm to the public mind, would before this clay have furnilhed all attending circumstances, had they not been found to contain fome pal liation of the alleged conduft. Resolved, That the president of the United States is the constituted au thority lor receiving ambassadors and other foreign ministers, and with him ought they to negneiate the objefts of their million ; if a difference of opinion Ihould at any time exilt be„ tween the president and any foreign nation, such difference ought to be fairly represented to luch nation by the agent, in order to an amicable adjultmenr. If the president fhoultl at any time be treated with insult or indignity by any foreign agent, his constituted au thorities are in our opinion competent to his redress, without any extra., judicial aid from the people, and we have fufficient confidence in his difere tion and firmhefs to believe that he would secure to himfelf, in a regular and dignified manner, the moft ho nourable and fatisfaftory redress; but iu the event of the inLifficiency of the constituted authorities, duly fignified by the president himfelf, he ought to be supported at every hazard in the diicharge of his conftituticnal funfti* ons. Resolved, That a fair copy of the foregoing proceedings be made out by the fecre:ary, and that the chair man cause the fame to be publilhed. (Signed) E. MEADE, Chairman* Attest, John Royall, Sec. NOVEMBER 8. Accounts received by the ship Port land, arrived at New York, further advise, that the emperor of Morocco has declared war against France • that the Italian powers will, it is pro bable, renounce their neutrality that the war, drawing to an end, becomes more bloody ; —that the hos pitals at Brussels at*e full ; —-that the Swiss cantons have ordered 200,000 men for the current year;—that ma jor general Van Noftirz, of the com bined armies, had died of his wounds, received at the action of Vincelles. NASSAU (N. P.) November 5. A St. Vincent’s Gazette, of the 7th u't. mentions, that the 2d battalion of the royals, the 1 B.h and 51st regi ments, were expefted in the Weft Indies, from Gibraltar. A vessel, which left Cape Nichola Mole fix days since, brings in: lli gence that the Blanche, Penelope, and All gator frigates had arrived there from Jamaica ; and that fome vessels were in the offing, fuppof and to have a reinforcement of troops on j board. j The commissaries army had made the threatened anack, but, is said, meditated one. [6 Dollars per Ann. [No. 2.