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* VOL L , Printed weeslt, JST HODGE -if A * DONNELL. CONDITIONS. ‘mf ‘ *y,i \ The Annual Sulr.cripion will be three dollars, half in advance. ea. Subscribers living out of the s;ate will pay die wh.le subscription Upon the deli very of the first number. m \ < 3rl. No Subscription* will be received for less than one year; and no paper shall be discontinued unt I arrearages are paid. rtkh. Advertisemencs will be inserted at the customary rates. Letters addressed to the Edj - Vo us must ve post paid. Tub following gehYlemen are re quested and authorized to receive Sub scriptions and give receipts for this’ sapcr % viz y— . .Wat Li* .•Stile. Dr. Wm. Wright Sc Ivir. Joseph Moss. * ~ \ J ticks on county , Capt. Boyle. l.exington— The*Post Muster. Greene county. My# VVyley Gres* ham, P. M. Grccnefaoiv'fi/l r. Grant, P. M. Grantsville , and the Post Master, Pohvclton. fViiAes county-r-Mr. James Wing* field, ;P. M« Washington, and Mr. Robert Grier. . Raysville—Mc. John Barnett. Columbia Court-House— P• Master. Hancock— Mr. Abercrombie, P. 3M» and Joseph Bryan, Esq. Blberton— Mr. Win. Woods. PeUrsburgh —Mr. Alex. Pope. Augusta —Mr. Fraser,. P. M. and Major Phinizv. M orgcy—Wlv. Cunningham, P. M. Jasper— Dr. Shorter. Putnarii— Brice Esq. ’ Altiledgeville— The Post Master. Madison county— Mr. Long,* P. M. and William Hodge v Esq. Ftonklin^X he. Post Master and the Rev. Messrs. Thomas Newton and Sfcmpson Lane. , ‘Washington county— General Irwin. jß'ii.rreA—The Post Muster. Lincoln— The Post-Master. . Savannah— muel B unett, Esq. Midway —John E. Fraser, Esq. St. May's —M ijor CLrlc, P M. » Abbeville, S. C.—*Mr. Moses W. Dobbins. v . -v ■ ■ y, 1 ,y >• -■ “ . >*v ! * •••■ * 1 .. Without intending any disparage lnent to the useful and valua.bie.pa* pers primed in Augusta, ville apd elsewhere m this State, we ,trill take the liberty to mention the following consideration.* as in some degree recommending this,. to public patronage, and especially in’the up-; per epumit s. It will be large , and will conse quently contain not only a variety, put a considerable quantity of with care, . < . ..... It .will be pul Used aV the Seat of the University of this State, and will derive from that circumstance tome general interest and import ance. / , ,» . v - It will jt»e published on Thursday |ni t every week soon after the arrival pi the Northern and Southern Mails at this place, and will contain a condensed v summary of the latest .fend ittost hiteresting news froth the« JCorth and South. From a direct communication thro’ Greenville, 6. C. & Buncombe to Tennessee tliis paper bly derive the earliest intelligence from Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio £* other. Northern and Western States and Territories. “ * It will contain besides the com* ttjon subjects ol a newspaper,-some tnoral, scientific mat* ter, which will be Carefully selected and made as far as possible subser vient to the practise..of Christianity and to the pursuits of common life. *1 he more to attain mis Object, s% here beg leave respectful ly to invite and solicit gentlemen of pcienee, who are triehds to man kind, and who would me borate tile ,cji*luifcn of human* life, to favor us tviih ‘their aid* Pieces on the vari* pus subjects alluded toj wire t her. ori ginal or Weil selecfed ; will be thanS-’ fully howevep ‘io tfie corneetiory modification of the Editors. Nothing Sectarian will flKdjmfcted. Not only the man of l&tcriy bur theplain practical pbilS sopntr,. tfee ingenious , fc*ner and fnechamc may jber,useful a here.— i .. . * t -Alll J and .i *i* | and attentively noticed any useiul ii *\A in n. griculture or the mechanical arts/ * It is not intended paper shall be made the vehicle of private ;«f personal scurrility and abuse. To those gentlemen who have be nevolently for Wanted, by a,libera! advance, the pubficatiorj of the Ga zette, the Editors beg leave to ten der their grateful acknowledgem nt< i heir future endeavors they trust, will go to prove that this liberality has not wholly misplace!. IC7” Gentlemen holding Subscript tion papers . for the Gazette, are res pectfully.requested to transmit to th: Editors immediately the names of sub scribers, [COPY.] TRE4SVVir bEPAfiI’MEKr,') , Feby iS 1811. S S«,Y J In the designation ofuie collec tion districts within the United States contained in the act *\for the assess ..ment and collection hf direct taxe and internal duties,” passed on the 22d day of July last, Madison* iqoim ty in Georgia is not specified or at* tachtd to any of the collection dis tricts established in thaj state, and, it is presumed was not known to exist, by Congress, when the Said act was passed 1 his county has been formed from the counties of Elbert/Franklin O glethorpe, Jackson and Clark; which are situated within two different dis tricts, viz : the lourtji and fifth in that state. y By the last clause in the first sec tion of the act above referred, to, the Secretary ol the Treasury is author ised in such case, to determine! to which of the collection districts the new county shall /belong. I . have there lore in pursuance of the au thority thus vested in me determin ed that Madison County in Georgia shall belong and be attached to the f hjith Collection District within thfit state; of which you will please to advise the collectors of the two dis tricts, that they make the sam.* «MtO’Wii to all persons concerned, aifd themselves accordingly. I aiti respectfuffy, ...... fu Sir,-your obedient servant, /Signedj G. W. CAMPBELL.’ The Commissioner of the Revenue, PUBLIC NJTICE srls hereby given that the several acts of Congress, passed, at their last session, laying certain internal dii* /es, Will take effect from and after (Be <3l st day of, December 1813, The provisions/ of wmciV must be ,co in plied with on pain of incurring the penalty attach eel. to violation thereof. These provisions require retailers of wines, spinthous liquors or foreign merchandize ip make application in /writing for and obtain license; own ers or superintendants of stills oi boilers intended to be worked* to make application for and to obtain license ; auctioneers, to enter into bonds, and under fcertain circumstan ces to take put a. license ; retinefSj of segue to enter into bonds ; owners or keepers of carriages to enter the same and obtain a certificate of the payment ot the duty ; and discount* ed notes and bonds, together with bills of exchange, to ,: Persons interested may examine the said laws at my office ; where the mode of making application and duties other* circum stances proper For them Jto be ac quainted with, may bd learned; All physicians, apothecaries, dr chemist*, who retail foreign drugs or other foreign goods, wares or mer chandize, and required to take licen ces. In ciise they retail medicines in which there are ho wines dr spiri tuous liquors, except* such as they have use din the preparation or mak ing up of medicines—the license for merenandize other than wines and spirits will suffice. * % Phy sc tans, who only dispose of the medecines,, used by them in their practice, are also required to take licenses, unjess in where such medicines artfgiven nPcharity. DUDLEY JONES, T Collector of the Revenue for the , 4th Gpikcii on District of Georgia. Car | OF AXV DESCRIPTION, AHEXS ; TfIURSIUr, APRIL 7, 1814. : -"*rV ‘ -v; PRESIDENT Sc PL\M PAGENET From the Cotuitbihn. » . The fact of an American frigate >aving (with knowledge or intention ) pursued a British ship of s he line, offered her battle, and lain within the power of her attack, for seven hours is a circumstance of which the occurrence is so honora ble to our naval repu ation, and so unfavorable to that of Britain, that its corroboration by further authen tic particulars, vHll hardly be thought unnecessary by those who heard its urst report, or have seen its m idest mention in the official letter of com modore Kodgers. the vessel’ wmen the commodore pursued, to ascertain ber character, is since understood to be the Plantagenet of 74 captain Robert Lloyd—But why did sue natb ing to action, during the seven hours they were in sight, before the tide Would per mit the frigate to come over the bar ; wnen chased, apd refused to engage or why she went from the President when it was in her powe - td bring /he President t<* action, wiiile it/ was impossible for the commodore to avoid it if offered, a future devel opement of better irlTorination must decide* . To put it into the power of every competent judge to draw his own inferences we, havtj obtained a ropy of sd .much from the logboo a or journal of,the frigate is Will place the whole transaction in so unetjdiv ocala point of view as to, remove ev ery doubt and satisfy tj)fe most in juisitive upon . the puajecu . the direction of the wind, Jhe distance -uitl bearing of the two vessels, the draught of water by . the President, depth of Sandy Hook bar, & flic time of high there, were all known o the enemy as well a? commodore Rodgers, and (without reference to, wind or nearness of position) iead ir resistably to the same pontludon. It may be proper to add, that in the lat te|‘ purt jDf the, time, a.third strange safl was also discovered to leeward supposed to be a frigate the consort to the 74* Extract from the Log-Buok of the I} . S. frigate President , Friday, February 18,1814. ’ •* ‘.5 ‘ , •- V t I>4y light, moderate breezes from S C W. by VV. and weather ; made the high land of Neversink bearing N. W. 1-4 N* rijstant 5 leagues ; tacked ship and made to wards it* - v a , At 7 iO A. M. discovered a s f ran je sail on ohr lee beam; re ported from the mast head to be a topsail schooner, standing; by the Wind to southward and west* Ward-, , At 8 A. JV! moderate and pleasetit weather, wind W* S‘. W, ‘ . , , At 8 45 A, JVI. sent a boat on shore; to the light houss fot* a pilot;— sounding JO fathoms. ~,, At 9 30 A. M. discovered a se cond strange .sail, bearing SSE. standing directly for us, hauled up, backeff the main and mizen topsails# beat to Quarters, and made every preparation for battle. . .. v At 10 30 A. M. lioisted ad Amerr ican ensign at each .mast hoad ; first starnge sail bearing $. 1-2 E. and the second a large ship of war S. & ,WV. disttnee 9 mile—wind S. W by.-W. . Meridian iNew York light house bore >l, 1-2 5 miles the strange ship of .war having hauled by the wind on the larboard tack* about jive miles from us, and We lying so, with the main and mizen top* Sails aback- At i P. M, took a reef in our top sails and fired a gun to .windward, supposing the strange sail to be an enemy. ‘ , At 1 15 strange sail bore up and stood down for us—\Ve woCe and s.iood to the sbuth to meet him. Wind S. W. At 1 30 strange sail wore and stood from us. At 2 30 discovered our boat re turning from the shore, wore sfiip and stood for her, strange sail al so wore and stood after us. w At 2 45 took the boat in tow, 1 wore and stood tor the strange ship, who also immediately; wore and stood from us* At this time within random shot distance. . . v \ At 3 15 received a pilot from the revenue cutter* he together with the officers who came on board, de clared the ship (then hating made sail away from us) was ah ened y’s 74; we wore ship and* jnadc sail for the t>*iy’ ‘S jT*. , . At 5 we came to anchor, inside the bar, the light boast bearing £. 1-2 S. i'v Remarks by a lieutenant* ■*. ...From the ‘position of the two ships for seven hours it is evident the en • *, * i j \ - t ‘* * ‘ 7 1 emv could have compelled us to ac tion. at any fiour within that inter val ; for be had the weather gage, and the water on the bar was. too low for the President to get over til) 4 o’clock. „ , The weather was clear, but hazy close to ihe hoi\i in—-Tits circum stance prevented us at the time We fi.ed the gun to windward, from as certaining the real force of the ene mv, whom we then supposed to be a heavy frigate. Nor was it till after wards our observations in clear wea tjher enabled us to make out her true farce, neither a frigate or razee, but a complete 74. . * . £The President.has been 332 days , at tsea since the declaration of war, and*traversed a vast extent of ocean, notwithstanding enemy has al , most, every sea covered with his cruisers, in the proportion of. near ly fifty to one against our litt e in i rine. Yet has toe commodore re turned in Safety, after approaching every sail he’ made, until her force could be, ascertained, and suffering no, single vessel than a a hip of me line to escape him. His last manoeuvre is the most remarkable event,, in the hrsiory of this frigate.* fwo dritish gentlemen’ were among the prisoners on board at tie time, one formerly a respectabls officer of the army ; they both then .and since expressed their astonishment and nioitificatifm at the conduct ot the 74 in. .refusing bauie> ip the strongest terms, vyitn remarks which a respect, to their situation in this country forbids us to repeat.] ’ ? THE YAiSi>.)dUdXEQT. The following i.s me report made in the House of Representatives-on Tuesday, by Mr. Oakley of N v V. as chairman of the commiUte to whom the bill from the .Senate ou the sub ject had been referred. The Committee to. which was refered the bill from the Senate, en titled /‘An act p abiding for the indemni fication certain clai niants of pub lic lands in tile Mississippi Terri > tofy” ~ REPOitt: , r , , f hat they have had the subject of the said billAnidcr their consider ation, and ; are of opinions that it is expedient Tor the government of the U. States to enter into a compromise With ihe persons claiming .lands In the Mississppi Territory, under, or by virtue of the act of the Legisla-, ture of Georgia, of tlieirih Jan. i795. The reasons tor this opinion do put rest qn the strict legality of ihe titles of these claimants to lands in question---thoug:i tbe committee can not forbear remarking thst that title Appears/ to have all , the sanction which qah be derived frorti a solemn /decision of the highest judicial tribu nal known to our laws, they ace grounded on considerations connect ed with the permauenVinteresl.Of the U. States, as they relate to the Mis sissippi territory ; with the qdiet and speedy settlement of that territory ; with |he more easy extinguishment of the Ipdian title to the lands con tained jo it; with the security against all future*!ndian wars iri that cjuarter, which the settlement of the*torritt>ry must afford ; with the navi gation connectiiig parts of thewesterfi states, with the ocean* which must be opened w.ien the population of tiie territory shall be adequate to such an obje t—and with the strength and safety which such a population nrhst confer on tHe Louisiana fron tier. - . * It may in addition.be remarked that there are equitable considerations connected with the present clairrh, winch in the opinion ts .the commit tee strongly recom uenT them to the favor of Congress. Although the Ong nal act of the sta|e of Georgia a ► plight have beeaprocured by fraud- * ulent and corrupt satisfac torily appears ur the committee, as far as their enquiries been ex tended, that the present claimants,or ithew underywhom they hold., were bona Jide purchasers of the immedi *ate grantees of Georgia, without no vice of any fraud or corruption in i the oftigiuai grant. The committee tin* head, to/ the * papers *td This Ueport, purked from* Ato L inclusive. 5 ‘ j As to the tci ius of the compromise whic’i it mav be .expedient to wake, the committee have considered that thosejt ontained in thebill ftom the Jenafe are as effectual and practica ble, and at the same time as eligible, as ought to be required .tinder the circumstances, of the case. I'hey have accorSingly directed their chair man to report the said bill without amendment. , The cbmirittee have had under consideration the Resolution adopted by Jthe House on the 9th inst-, . As the 4 authority vested in the a gents, now attending compromise the claims set up by the respective claimants.’ the committee, have pro cured all the information \yjthm their reach, i hey have.exami.ncd various document’ and papers, softly of ihtnn very voluminous consisting of con veyances, ‘potver of attorney, letters, &c. l'hey.huVe also received front the respective ug mlswi iten tations o.t the exleiVtof their powt is and authority, and of their reach ihlk ,to accede tq the terms of compronn»e contained in the.bill fptm tne ,eu tote. These are ad* nexed to this report. *, •$ , The committee did npt consider it <hecessa?‘y> to report to theWotrse tlip various (tocunWits exhibited to Went by Uijs respective a^eutsin support of these representations. bucu a procedure was supposed not to come necessarily wttinn tpc pui view of t;iq >e»oluiipn 0.l tfie Hquae, and would have encumbered tins icpqrt with a niass pi, papers. Ihe committee will lemai k : generally, that |t»c au thority of the agents appears to be very thatin U>c course of tneir.a;i quinds. on tins head, intyr .have discovered no reason to believe jtSiat any one of the claimants vvdj r.luse to accede to the proper com promise. •> As the 4 amount of money actually paid .by bjnar'Jide third purchasers tor grant or. tiiles tlyey may nolei un der the original grant,* the annexed papers afford t ah the .information .which the committee have found it 4 fraetif übu’ to obtain. These papers snow to a great extent the p. ices at wmch ‘ bona fide Ui'ird purciiciders* contracted for tfie lands in question —•aml wbrch Were paid in negotiable and eadofrsed, notes, and secu rities. coaimittee con»ide< it impracticable^io to uiiv ex tent 4 t:he a row uift of jnoney actually paid,.’ without devoting to tne enq , - ry more attention than any committee couki bestow on it, during apy session pf Congress ; as it would lead .to an examination of ail tne private transactions of the n,unvi<>us individuals now interested i, these claims, which might be conueccfcj with tin purchases and sales of u,e lands in questiou, and with the notes and other Securities, given in coiisi;- quence of these purchases and sales. As to that pan 01 the rescSlutioi} which . instructs th£ committee, to enquire * from which of Uie origin al companies the present claiuiuius derive title, and the amount of mo ney withdrawn byany-ot the origin al grantees or persons claiming them or their agent or agents lip in the treasury of Georgia? the com mittee also reier to tire annexed pa pers, and to a document,accompany ing the report of the commissioners appointed in pursuance ol ail act of Congress entitled ‘ an act for the amicable settlement of limits with the state of Georgia, and authorizing the establishment of a government in the Mississippi territory S which document is contained in a volume, from page ,147 to page inclusive, printed by order ol Congress bn tub 19th day of December, 1809i t Ahe committee tne Liber ty to refer to the volume aboveinen tioned, as comaimng macij . uscitii information in reiatTdn to the aius and proceedings of the state of Geor gia ana of the Grated Stated, con nected with the subject qnoer ron • side rat ion In tbte same voitime wnl also be found the report 61 tne com missioners above men* loned, and va rious documents accompanying ths same, snowing among ocher . ifotyrs, the evidence of tne fraud and c Ir ruption “connected with the original grant of these lands by tne state of Georgia. Ah #hich is to the House. tAZOO £LMXS BILL. From an exammatipn pf this *_as it fuiaiiy the, achata&fl finci w e inut malct uilyuhi uin.t Jjß Fils p rou sioua, its we iiuu and _ no. rui.