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demanded my keys : ,tl)efe I peremp torily refufed to deliver, observing that, if lhey conceived it to in the execution of their office, they might force my locks, but I was de termined not to produce a key. Ac cordmg'y rny locks were forced, my papers examined with the eye of feru tiny, and not a paper nor a {entente co .Id be found that could tend to lup.- port the charge which had otcahoned this wanton attack lip off the privileges and immunities of a citizen. I have already set forth in the words of the bench warrant, and, in thole from the warrant of the com mittee of the honfe, the charges which were laid ag.'iiilft me. I have loufly examined the law of the land, and the law of this state, and have, together with my acculations, placed them before my fellow citizens, to judge- In the conflitution of this state, the fecund clanl’e of the ninth article declares, ‘ Thar no freeman of the itate tball he taken, or iinprifoned, or tliff’ei/.ed of his freehold, liberties'or privileges, or out la wed, or exiled, or in any manner deflroyed, or de prived of his life, liberty, and pro perry, but bv the judgment of his peers, or ‘by the lav/’ of the (and.’— upon the evidence of one Man, who has not declared h w be bfeame ■ poffeffd oj tre cjid.nce, I am held out as a traitor to my country, and treated with all the rigour attending per locutions llhf and r the molt arbitrary government. Upon the e dd. nee of the laws of the land, and the particular la.v of this itate, the aft imputed to me as trea.. {enable, is not mentioned ; therefore, tbit ail cannot be cbnltrucd into a crime, becaufo no jcxifiing law has made it one. But allowing that it amounted to mifprjwi , by admitting the president’s proclamation to have had the power of law, in establishing crimes wherein the law was silent, yet the steps taken to come at the evidence which was necessary to condemn the aggreijbr, were Arch, that nothing inert of the power qf a despot was wanting Shall any one liereafter attempt to call America a land of liberty, when neither character nor locks, nor other iecurity, however heretofore held sa cred, can protect the citizen from the rigorous search of a fl ip chamber war rant ‘( Suppose, for a moment, I was lee it at the head of one thou land-, or even ten thouland men, all citizens, and all equally free to go where they pleated, as I supposed inyfelf to be at one time , and that we were just flopping out of the limits of this state, prqgrelling to a country, no matter whether in or out of the limits of the United States : could it be conltrucd j against the laws of this country, when the preamble to every conflitution pat Ted in America, declares, that all men are free ? lam not free to com mit murder ; lam not free to make depredations upon any individual of the United States : but certainly I am free to quit .thefts flutes when l please, to where l pkafe, or I am more a Have to tyranny now; than I was twenty years ago. If then this political freedom is pos sessed by the citizens of America, and it has been declared to be their inhe rent right by the general voice of the people', what alfui.-ption of power mull it be, when a set of individuals (hall attempt to invade or in any shape di miniffi that right. Americans, it be comes your case more immediately limine ; every indignity which I ’ to fuiF.v, I have gone U.’ e ■ ■ ■, ■■■ fl’ fl fl I , fl fl s m Tons against my country, as any verse in holy writ. It was an aft done in defiance of the federal conflitution, which fays,- ‘no perlon lb all be com pelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himlelf; nor be de prived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.’ Was not the searching for papers in my pbffeffion tanta'fnouqt, had any been found, agreeable to the hopes of my perfeartors, to make me become a witness against mylelf t My country men, rny" friends, ye who have with me been iriflrumental in bringing a bouft our revolution, apply to your felvcs the conduct which has been a dopted in this matter. 1 rom the ar bitrary will of George 111. of Great Britain, we have no longer a pride in exulting to he free, if the moft lacred ties of the union can thus be violated and trampled upon. I add rest mylelf now to my country at large. Ido it upon the principle of a citizen (of a great republic which is'juft fre'ed from the (hackles of des potism) who has experienced an attack upon ids privileges. It ihews thereby plainly, that- there (till remains forne thing'delpotic either in our general, government, or in characters tom poling the executive part thereof. Ip either case, if my observations are just, a remedy is necessary ; if they are wrong, or the explanations extorted, I love my country too well not to submit cheerfully to conviction ; but on the contrary I pledge mylelf not to give up tamely a point which to me appears big with con-sequence refpeft ing the future happin Is of America. 8. DRAYTON. bhhmii FRENCH GENERALS. 4 The French excuse their verfatiliry refpecling their generals in the fol lowing manner : Dr Bouille, they fay, planned the flight of tlve king. Luckner was a foreigner, and sup posed to love money without loving liberty. Rochambeaubs good qualities were in’ efteqm, but, doubting his own po pularity, he religncd of his own mo tion. La Fayette carried his politics and intrigues in the army, and they were at kill tjionght of the wrong fort. . Duniourier, like De Bouille and La Fayette, turned himlelf off; and •after fu ll displacing La Bourdonnaye, and bringing Miranda into quellion, lie led Valence, Egalite, ahd others into an avowed conlpiracy. Culline, alike scurrilous to his ene mies and colleagues, at iufl attacked the convention, whom lie called brawlers, and in want of a dictator like himlelf ; and he was therefore loon defer ted, when he was found de ferred by fortune. Wimpfen, who never enjoyed full confidence, has declared, like feveral* of his predeceiTbrs, that the convention does not polTefs any confidence from him. Biron, who was of the higli nobility, a quondam Orleanite, and looking for large inheritances, was thought to be too dilatory againfl the insurgents not to have a fellow feeling for them. Servan had a heavy charge to an swer, in tljedefencelefs slate of the frontier towards Spain. Kellerman, though Hill in command, is known only as a soldier ; and has not fufheient talents to lave him, fliould any suspicions prevail re fpe cl ing his patriotism. Weflerman was proved to be a ma rauding adventurer, both in Flanders and La Vendee, Oil the whole, the French fay, that an army is a machine, and the general is the foul of it ; that it would be idle to continue a general after he was fufpefted of being left attached to his employers, than to their enemies ; that to change is an evil, but that to be betrayed is a far greater evil ; that many of their changes have beeivfatif- ; factory to their armies, and even pray- j ed for by them ; for when men rifle their Jives, it is at lea ft a confutation to know, that they have oftener me- | rited cenlure for the men they ha\e kept, than for the men whom they have difinifled ; that events have al most universally proved their 1u 1 pic:— | ons to be founded; anti that as their firfl generals .‘\vere king’s tr.err, their next conftitutidnalifts, and their thud set Girondists, no wonder that they were each dilptaced by the tucceecl ing parties; - I fiajt in the civil wars, in Charles’s time, the mft generals were in the public inteiell, the next iiithb prelbyteriafi, and the next in the independant, and yet they carried through their point lor the time. That the duke of Ormond, dnd the French generals under tne monarchy, were generally changed, when there were changes at court, and lbm£ timed’ from infre caprice oi intrigue; That the lenior officers in their artiiies- at prelent, are naturally full of old’ prejudices; it will be fdnie time before thele arfe weeded or worn out. and theme w ones frll their places; and that-as every new choice of a- ge neral is an experiment, on accdunt oj (heir new cireumltances, it is not Won defiul tint fo.ne of their experiments fliould be unfortunate. But in the me At time, they lay, that as their army, on the whole, hangs together, and is too vail to be deinolilhed at onco, time will afeertain the ability and fidelity of their officers ; and that France never having had liall so many men armed in its defence, nor itspeo pie half so animated, the allies will b come bankrupt and and :1b a fitted, be fore the Conquest of France canbeef.. fefted. If tlvey are right in this, then it is pretty clear, that England is in the wrong in its mad ‘crullicle ; and that a fyllefnt of bribery cannot go so very far in a country, where the aeffirs are changed to often. AUGUSTA, December 2i r Town of Tuckabachee, on the Talapoofee river, Upper Creeks, A cy. 30, 1 793* Sir, It is with pleasure I inform your excellency, that in conlequence of a j meeting which I have had at this place ! with the chiefs of all the Creek na .tions, that peace and good under llanding is again re-eftablilhed be tween the United States and the laid nations., The Creeks bind themselves to de liver to me all the prisoners in this land ; to rellore all the negroes, horses and cattle, taken from Georgia for twelve months pall ; to punilh ca pitally, five or more of their principal aggrefl’ors, Measures are taken lor carrying into efteft all these delirable objefts ; and runners are lent in every direction, to make known the news of peace, and ftriftly to forbid their peo ple from injuring the perlfons or pro perty of the people of your state, or the United States. I have therefore to request that your excellency will lose no time in promulgating this information, throughout your Hate, thereby to prevent any outrage being offered to i'uch Indians as may appear on your frontier, belonging to this nation, whilst they conduft themlelves as friends. I have not time to be more particu lar at prelent, but ihall do mylelf the honour of writing to you again in a few days, and am, with due re fpe £l, Your obedient humble servant, JAMES SEAGROVE, Agent In iian affairs, S. D. U. S. His excellency the governor of Georgia. Taken from the fie of the executive, At tell. ED. WATTS, S. E. D. Thefucceffesof our French brethren over the armies of the combined ty rants, were celebrated here on Satur day tall, with uncommon joy—The governor and both branches c.f th t fl legislature attended the feftivaU I The dragoon's, the artillery, an i i ;1 . 1 Entry exerted themselves, in * their 1 manoeuvres, to a degree heretofore unknown. Last Thursday evening the gei eral a (Terribly of this state adjourned, fi iie die—Tire following are the aft-, puffed during the ieffion, viz. ’ An aft to iippofe a tax on the inha. bitants of this (late, lor the lupport of government for the.year 1794‘ An aft to oblige vessels and persons coming from places infefted with epi demicai diftemperstb perfOTrSTJUaran. tine. An nft to eftablifli arr Infpeftion of tobacco on Savannah river, at trie mouth of Lightvvood Log creek. An aft to appoint commissioners for. the town of Hardwick, and appoint commissioners for the connty of Wafa, ington, for fixing a proper place for the court honfe and gaol (or the fad county, ahd for build ng the fame. An aft to prevent the importation of ne 2.foes into this state, from the places herein mentioned. An aft more effectually to’;punilh persons coiivifted of fteaiing horses, ■ asses, or mules. An aft to rcv’ife and amend the ju diciary aft. An aft to divorce or separate-An drew jMaybanlc and Alary his wife, and for protecting each of them iu their refpeclive estates. An act Hippie me nt ary to the militia -law. Art aft for laying out .anew coiiutv v from the counties of Washington and ■Greene. An aft to grant certain power; therein named to the commissioner: of pilotage for the town of Savannah. Atiaft respecting bastardy and other ‘immoralities. An aft to dispose of the commons of the town of Washington, iri the coun ty of Wtikes. An aft t-> secure to w... ’T| inr . %r Ton and THomas M‘Calt, for the term of ten years, the foie and ex ciufive right of running a line of ftnge carriages, between the city of Savan nah and town of Augusta. I An aft to incorporate the Savan nah affectation of mechanics. An aft for preventing controversies 0 concerning bounds of lands, and for prcceffioning the fame. An act to lay out a county out of part of the counties of Burke and Effingham. An aft for regulating and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the several counties within this state. An aft to repeal an aft, entit’ed, <• an act for inflicting on, and confiscat ing the estates of luch persons as are therein declared guilty ot trealon, and for other purposes therein mentioned, so far as refpsfts the banilhment of George Baiilie, of Chatham county, merchant, therein named. An aft for opening and keeping clear the navigation of Ogechee river. An aft for appropriating monies for the year 1794. An aft to amend an aft, pointing out the mode under which property reverting to this state ftiall be difpo fed O * of. The follow! ng appointments were made by the legislature : The honourable George Walton, efq. Judge of the superior cdurt, in the room of John Houftoun, Icl'q- re signed; Abraham Jones, efq. auditor. J. Tatnall, Philip Clayt-Jn, and Nicholas Long, esquires, con'imifiion ers for the Tales of confifcaneJ pro perty. The following ftate_officers were re- O elefted : John Milton, efq. fecretarly of state. 1 hoinas M-'Call, efq. lurleyor-ge neral. John Gibbons, efq. treasurer.