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VOL /. PRINTED WEEKLY. ST HODGE V M-DO SHELL. CONDITIONS. 4st. The Annual Subscrip dort wrilj be THRtf dollars payable half yearly in •advance; or a NOTE for four dol <lars payable at the end of the year. u Subscribers living ou* of the State vrill pay tlje whole subscription upon the deli very of the hrst number. Ai. No Subscriptions will be received for | lc*s than one year; and no paper shall be discontinued unt l arrearages are paid. 4th. Advertisements will be inaericd at the | customary rates. IC?* Letters addressed to the Edi ffoas must be post paid. Te s folio wing G t vr L E Mi j t? art re - £ \4 { : ;ud and authorized to receive Sub scriptions and give receipts for this taper, v'% Vrutkinsvtllc. Dr. Win. Wright & Mr. Joseph Moss; 4 ‘Jackson county* Capt. Boyle. J.cxington— -The Post Muster-’ Greene. county, Mr. Wyley Gres l*m, Pi M. Greenesboro \ Mr. Grant, If. M. QrantsviUe, and the Post faster, P owe It on. Wilkes county- Mr. Jamfcs Wing» £eld, P. M. 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U>bbins. •’ awn O Without intending any disparage ment to the useful and valuable; pa pers printed in Augusta,, Miiledge tille and elsewhere m this Sute ; , t w’e’ .wnil take the liberty to mention the following considerations as in some ifegree recommending this to pubiiv > patronage, and especially ia thte up-: per counties, , s .. .*; 11< It will be targe, and will.conse quently contain not only a yuriety, ; hut a considerable quantity of mat-; l*r —selected with care/ , It wijl.be at the Seat of’ |he University of this State,, ami will derive from that circumstance; «ome general interest arid import lI7CC. . < „ t. .» *,- ■ . |»v.- v It wilt be published cn Thursday lb every week soon alter the arrival •f the Northern and Southern Mails kt this place, and will contain a condensed summary of the v latest kinl most interesting news from the itorth and Sputly- s - , , . n .>• .; v , Froth a , direct communication f|iro’ UreenyUle. a. C. : $c i*uhco«ib<f io Tenhessec this paper will probu fdy derive the earliest intelligence from .K.entdtUy, Ohio k •iher Northern and Western, States tynd Territories- . Aj?; It will contain besides the com mon subjects ot a newspaper, some fooral* religious mat ter, which will be carefully selected Wnd made as far as possible sulilei wkmt to the practice of Christianity end to the pursuits of common life. The, more effectually to* attain this object* we here beg leave respectful ly to invite and solicit gentlemen of weience, who are trieuds to in un kind, and who would meliorate the condition of human life, to favor us win their aid. Pieces ou tie vai i* •us objects alluded to, whether on final or wjeil selected, will be thank fully xccelveu-—subject however to flic correction and JSSlodipcatiOn of the Edi|oi*S. Nothing Sectarian will .|e admitted. Not only the man of tiu.rs, Lui the plain practical piitle- ! Jh , 4 3 It is not Intended that this paper shall be made the vehicle of private or personal scurrility and abuse* T® those gentlemen who have be- J nevolently forw irded. by a liberal advance, the publication of the Ga zette, the Elitortfbeg leave to ten- ■ der their gratefulhe knowledge me ntN —Their futjni e endeavors they trust, will go to prove that this liberality has not been wholly misplaced. •- ! , IC7* Gentlemen balding Subscrip tion papers for the Gazette, are res pectfully requested to transmit to the Editors immediately the names of sub scribers* f Truth and Eloquence • Mr. Holmes made the following remarks in his second speech* The honorable gentleman rose and after some preliminary remarks, he observed; There is more clamor in the Sen ate of Massachusetts, than there is among the citizens of the common wealth. Out of this house every thing indicates peace and quietness If you are sincerely desirous to havi* the constitutionality of the tmbar go law decided i have observed before, you may apply to the jud; ciary, and have a speedy decision ; and then if not agreeable to your feelings, you can still pursue you; - revolutionary course. 1 have heara of some gentleman who proposed to take the sword in one hand and the constitution in the other and demand \ fheir rights. If the gentleman was to attempt such a thing in the dis trict of Maine, where he came from he knew the course winch would m pursued against him ; he Would be .aken before the judge of probate and be put under guardianship. The gentleman has made strange remark* upon the subject of free ships making free goods* Oar government does hot contend for this j yet gen eral Washington was in favor of tree ships making free goods—he made several treaties recognizing the principle—By the treaty of Bre- , da in 167/ and Utrecht if L3, Great \ Britain, recognized; the principle-, and three tunes was it engrafted in to treaties with Holland. ihe rea son is, that Great Britain was, ht those periods, neutral, while, other nations were at war. ; It seeing sin* . guiar, that - .opinions and decisions of neutral Commercial nations, the gentleman from Essex should be the Erst to discover that this principle wa£ against the rignt& of neutrals. . - : % . she United States* government know Ue objects of the iVtassacau selU‘ Uegjsuture—tney do. not care tor them—neither wili they find it necessary to use any force. , The , friends of the union in Massacnu setts are numerous, and, fully > com petent to put down any attempt.that ipay.be made to ( , resist the laws of the uniou by dorfce* L , ; . : ; ;y - Suppose the salted;shades v ofyour Hancpca and your Adams were to t6’ visit this senate chamber . by; ac cident. and hear your; debates, they* would mauirally conclude they, were i.i toe assembly oi* one Os ipe British I colonies. How could it be OthervyUe, vVhen they he t urd you justify every measure of the mother country, eu logize her kiwi ami apologize for jiet oifences. But wnat would, be their* feelings whaii tiiey. fc>u.id, to, their., disuppuiutmeun, They were in the wiassachusetts beiiatOchamoer, hear-’ mg tl>e debates, on iftt&LiMwer to the governor’s speecn* . -« f perfectly- agree with his excel lency, that if tae war is as he dis cribes it, unjust , it is didicudi to ac count ho;w those who thin a so, can re joice at a victory, or reward the man w.io has acmeved it—'upon the gov ernor’s ground, co nmodore Perry and all pis brave associates mqst be aired assassins. rUe cau.se is not less wicked because it is successful* it wouid hardly comport witn the vtevvs of a moral and religious peo ple, to rejoice ait murder, because it was done witu a favorite weapon. Suppose it be true, as you say, tnat your party have been the exclusive advocates of a navy and \vc have been its exclusve iocs, which, by tne by, is Vom fact, wouid that be a reason tor rejoicing at its triumphs', in a bad caused Suppose, sir, you had a iatontc pairot pistols, aud you ah hi Uacl contended about their ej- they were of the j best construction, and 1 that they were I not. .it length however lam cou -1 vincefeuui purchase a pair, f *scc, by liie highway, very peace- ATHENS, ’ THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1814. ably and innocently* your old friend and parent*; was particularly | near to you ; he had never,done you j any essential injury : and had at all times been the bulwark of the reli gion you professed., Though I “ had no groupd of complaint against him/ vet this,is a good opportunity to try my pistol—l take good;.aim and lodge the bill in his heart—l turn to vou— u sirs you was right, 1 am con vinced ; come rejoice with me* for I have killed your parent with these pistols i they even exceed your de scription.’* You would view me with horror. “ Well,’* I Would say calm ly ik Jf you will, not rejoice at the even*, you may at least hofior and reward me for the act , for I assure you I did it genteelly.” Sir) you would denounce me as a murderer of the blackest hue. » v But I do not believe that gentle men are quite so inconsistent—i Sus pect that this rejoicing is matter of policy rather than sincerity • It was necessary to dissemble to keep the people right, and perhaps it was found convenient to pacify your own conscience ; they sometimes prac tice this aitifice upon ‘themselves. I remember a case which I believe is in point—l will iclate it, that you may judge—two neighbors lived in k state of the bitterest enmity ; One of them was sick and expected to die he sent for his enemy and propos ed a reconciliation—it was agreed \to, and eVery thing wore the ap peal ahee of Christian charity and forgiveness* but as this rieW nend was about taking his leaved ‘ the sick tnan beckened to him— “ Stop, sir, now remember that if I recover this all goes for nothing; it ,s to be j-ust as it wa£ before, if I get well. * Your;case is not very differ ent. When the country prospers and triumphs and.yph .are sjck and likely tp die disc ydb must. in times of prosperity) you Send for yo.ur political opponents, affect to repent* piopose to be Americans* and to join in rejoicing at, our victories; out it is with the sick reser vation—A* stop, gentlemen* nov? re* member if we recover, if any utisfor une nappens to your country upon .vnich > we cau we reserve the 3 ngnt to rejoice as loudly , ’ and ten thousand times as sincerely at your country’s misfortunes as we did at i her .triumphs ; whether some v.cou- ‘ scientious misgivings, were the cause \ pt th.e rejoicing ait. PerlyV victory, * X leave larxomegentlemen,in the majority to detcimi ne—certain i am that thil is the . best way of re- their l neon si s tancy-p-ant» 1 am inclined to believe that some.exultation at our late mis-* fortunes will justify the conclusion. .? i i:he gentle man from Essex has .intimated that if'G*. Britain yield the right ot impfessnaebt,.it would be the destruction of oup marine. „ And the reason he gives, is, that it would in duce an infiux of British sailors, to the .exclusion of oiir own. v fiksthe gen tfeinan-forgotten that We have, a law expressly excluding British sai lors froth QUr employ l , Why do gen tlemen Keep this act out of view m debate l Is it because it is a pacific Pleasure*.and they are to -dis cuss its merits l t she majority have taken speclai care to exclude that act from this debate/ [Liere Mr. Put* liam rose, and said .mat he; did not notice the act, beause >ih did not ex; Britisii subjects Which had been naiuraljzed here*] . The gentleman is wcicome teh his txplana ion, but it does hot help.him to nis epneiusion— itjs thought that there are not fifteen hundred British sailors who have been naturalized, here.. But |f there were jttWetf thousand, itwould create np influx* because. naturalized British suojects are presumed so be already here—it is rcaLy difficult to perceive from what premises the gentleman . could have drawn his conclusion—a. is a little singular that Washington and Adams did view,the subject ia ; tliiip light-—ihey never consideredi impressment aoeneiit—ju tne con trary;, tbeyj>ppused it as an indignity ’ wjtuch the U. States couid not eudure -—even t Mr. Pickering denied the right—Judge Marshall and Mr. King cicaly, and definitely cp.iteqded and proved til at Great Britain had no. right to impress a JbiiUia subject na turalised m America —it is nevv doc . Uiiic* sir/that impressment on boat 4 our ships is a iiritisli right, mid a, the failed Slate* contended that the treaty of Monroe find Pickering could have seUiea ad fiiincuUies. Thai treaty, if raUued neither hi* vs set tied the question of impressment nor pro vented the orders in council. This I will prove. The treaty itsdHf con tained no stipulation on. the subject . of impressment. The note on t tat 1 subject was never considered tttdhe C nature of a stipulation $ and the Bri tish ministry* when called on for- an. explanation, disavowed having, made any arrangement. Pne British min istry, by their letter of the 31st Dec. 1806, expressly declared that if the B.r'in decree was enforced and noi . resisted by America, they cl timed vhe right to retaliate, notwithstanding . the treaty# id ad that treaty been ra tified by Mr. Jefferson, after this a- • vovyal, it would have been construed , into an assent on our part that Great . .Britain, might retaliate w ialeyer she * might deeni French aggression, and might.be the judge, when, and now , far we ought to resist tiid And i't * seems she undertook in eight days after this letter to. retaliate the Ber lin decree, by the order of 7th Jan fivut decree* v =• ‘<.i ~ - , ».• .- v . ( • r In speaking of French influence, Mr. Holmes observed, the gentle wUn from Worcester speaks of Gen et and Fouohet, andbf their insulting ; the government.. Whatever’attycn ftients we might have had tor France, • jwhen struggling as we thought, for liberty; we have none, now. .Her* attempt and our, attachment, if any, vanished at the v establisiiment of her monarchy. The gentleman alludes to flour'contracts. > It is, per- , naps* not necessary to go back to the days of Fouchet, to prove *• flour con tracts** ft possible that some very late contract might implicate some f >f our friends near home. . It is, per- ‘ haps, most prudent, loF; the. geiitic- ; plan and his friend to say very, little \ bf flour.cont racts. •. Was the sending i urreau’s silly and insolent let- t Ser .without an , evidence of $ “rench influence l ilad Miv Mudi son back an insulting letter ot a ’British minister unanswered, . ..the . gross and wanton .insult ottered to * his. majesty ’s, .crow. j and * ai.gqity, wouiu have sjiiu-ied from Geor gia to, Maine.; the ministers would have appealed to tne; people. iiv tne f arm of a circular to tne consuls, or some other form, and he would, have been sympathized with, caressed ana leusteu by all his majesty's JaitMul subjects irpm Washingtqh tp Boston. Vet Mr. Madison for.refusing to ait-v swer this letter, and compelling tne writer, id take it hack, is a frenchman. ‘ot as Washington an jingiisiinhiii, m I a similar case, for seduiiig back a ‘letter uhopened, because it was msul* ’ tihgiy addressed i , Mr. Homies, after reading th documents relating to the Russian mediation, . Observed, What wiU those gentlemen say, who have un dertaken to prove, by * 4 tacts *x rea- that Mr.. Daschkott iiad no .authority to,propose this mediation i Here is proof that will put down tne revilers of that great and good man, James Madison. v Let. these gentle men attempt to impeach his cnarac-. ter—-they cannot.reach it l Lej: your pci ost malignant newspapers atuc* him; let your little RebeFand, other little reptiles raise their puny heads, to j>uU down the fair fabric of his lame —-as weli migh t the most cou tern pu bic grOiindhug att nipt to subvert toe. universal, No, sir i ills moun tain stands strong! It is established oh the rock of eternal truth l in vain will the storms of faction burst upon ns brow, and tne. ocean of Calumny break its billows at its feet* % Bsrnadjttt vs f Bonaparte* . Several violent articles nave been published in the against BernaiiotCtr Crown Prince of Sweden which tne Fmice.has conde scended tb answer, ine lodowing is an extract from his reply* . Vam then, ia your . attempt tpr, render the Crown Prince odious, in tne eyes p£ the French who can nc> longer mistake the true autner of their caUnuties noi the object which alone deserves their hatred. It is ‘ tne man who bas accumulated on. their guiltless neads the hatred a»d Vengeance of nations. Wno cornu sketch without some omission, the long career ot crimes wnicii ne , arrived at, and has maintained a.ini sei! in powcrF Bonaparte, bom in Corsica, was educated in a nukUry scnooFin France, by the be u met nee .of the unfoi tunate Louis r X V 1; ue -issued Irom it to become a furious jacobin, his jirst attempt J.O make hi mself’ notorious was a pamphlet m the most rcydiuuwwh| % suriib| cal}ed, la Souptr of d* Avignsn ; after the 9th Thermidor, he was marked, arrested .uujd deprived of his rank as an agent of Robespierre's : he fl t* ter.ed and betrayed . all the tactions in iiH he became their master; be dtfiled the streets of Paris with the blood of its citizens who claimed a constitutional right: he sacrificed a fine army .to his chimerical proj s in Egypt There lie massacred his ‘Turkish prisoners, poisened his own sick and destroyed his armv at the most critical moment k.returned to Europe; he attempted at the head of to dissolve live National Ref t sen lat ion ; and atthe point of d> i»g in his enterprise, had he not been saved by his brother’s presence of mind;: arrivedtp. power he caused Pichegnl to be t Strang'ed in adu d geon, by* his-.MaineluH.es ; he pro* scribed Moreau ; h* . kidnapped the defendant of the great, Conde, on a hospitable territory, and dragged him, to punishment ; the reign of terror, was /restored in Prance ; ii V stead cfone Bastile, which the French had demo.Ushed.Jie erected .eigat* all*, the dungeons were fi'Tid >v tk state prisoners,; suspicious as Tibe riou* and criiel as Nero, he c ,v v# ilshedin Prance a systemof .universal which one half qf the actiyity of all public functionaries every liberal idea was proscribed, every indtpendend Voice was smolh* ered ; .the silence of death hovered ,and still, novers over : that, country., inhabited by one of the, most enlight ened & ingenious nations of Europe,* flattery alone is heard, and by a id on* strous* scaffolding, of lies it eivjcav* ours to conceal sucha hiultiplicity of iornorsi •> His system of internal goy* er flute nt has riiuel the p ospe itv of France* ht* conduct in foreign * rela tions forms \ only 4 tissue of Mac a* laveUufl perfidies/, ,■. ~ , in the Wars which his wild am* bition, has, kindled for the last Wp yta”3 v . ( all those veterans, . the -pit! defenders.ol tiHir (country have per* isped in. succession; the 4 uif T rance torn from them peaceful o>- cuput-ons, has been thinned without pity P it tne glitter of vi.ct<k>ics gamed by French .valor.was for so-ne years able to produce illusion,-liui iljii>loll is now/destroyed*. Bonaparte, ,L>y abusing fortune, hai at last tired her out, he-now experiences reverses 4- ione, and nis,success was his .only, merit,., He has notjpne faithful ally; ail of them aspire to shake, off ,the yoke ot vassalage,; which imperious circumstances impose.!, a.id which ne decorated with, the . name.of aU hance.. .He has still satellites,'whom fear tor their own safety attaches to . his person ; die- has not one friend in tne wnofe yvorld . k v *■ * fc f he moment approaches,.-when Jkis man, wbojso long wound !m way in darkness to a height at which he seemed to tread under foot fclpp hu- ’ man .race? b- about to re-enter htflf original nothing. It is.in vair< that lie should confound his,name aivj , interests with those of France ; b* t has nothing in common with htv ; it is only his usurpation.: and tyr an** ny which have . hitherto conn;; ued tne fate of France , with his* The allies have loudly they do not make war upon ijit Vrench nation, but uppn r ßpnapayp: alone.— Among so- many* radliphs of men whom he calls his sqhjecrts, the ty* rant isJnsuUted j a general am ics ty b pio Ciaimed for 94) those who have served him, provided they re linquish his, partjy and act against him i be., alone is,proclaimed an. out law, agaiast huuuo.ty. - f / \ 4 aN|*vcr did. a more Se nate.-preside over the destinies oT Euroiie than that which tb* Allied Hoyereigns form at thi&day. Can it be supposed that the Prince Royal’ ot Sweden would not raise has voice in Senate in favoF.pf his cotri try, were the dismersibcrtneiH or su> jugauon of France even hinted a.*, i But France may obtain the n*V.t honorable peace?’ the mome.it 51; chooses to set limits to her Uespa. s abuse of power. Fhe Alliies wish only, to rees tablish the tranquility and .mdepen dence of the civilised world, the Pri.iee Royal of Sweden eturisae* tne. remembrance of France ; he ceases not to pray for her happiness* It is 3miaparie wno has n-iUier French blood nor a Freiich heart. Alter the manner of ancient anignts the Prince Royal lias nobly uirowu down to him ms glove; let versary take u up if he dare; come and teriu .utc liiu test ill single cuiusiau'* NX Ft.