Athens gazette. (Athens, Ga.) 1814-18??, November 03, 1814, Image 3

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prize Cos the philcsoptyjr r /of England^ Such a medley of contradictions, and at the same time such all indi vidual inconsistency, were never uni ted in the same character. A royal •‘fist, a republican and an emperor—a Ihabometan, a catholic, and a patron of the synagogue—a subaltern and a sovereign—a traitor and a tyrant—a * Christian and an infidel—he was through all his vicisitudes, the same ‘|Mern, impatient, inflexible original * the same mysterious* incompre iliensible self.—the man without a mo tiel and without a shad aw. is fall like his hie bailed all spe cßlation. In short h»s whole history ’‘ was like a dream to the world, and HO man can tell how or why he was awakened from bis riverie. Stlch is a faint and feeble picture of dn Bonaparte, the first (and it is hoped the emperor of the French# That he has done much evil } there is little doubt—that he has beenthe origin ol much good, there is just as lit tie. Through his means, intentional .or not, ,Spain Portugal ‘ and France have arisen to the bless ings of a free constitution ; super stition has found her graven the tains of the inquisition / and the fed :n> -vstem, with its few hole train n 1 st»Ullites, nad tied forever. Kings Taiy learh from ; t .ai ;h.u their saf est study, as well as ih;.ir noblest, is in the interests of me people. -"The people are taught by him, that there fs’ho despotism so stupendous against which there is no resovirse; and to those who would rise on the ru ins of both he is a living lesion/ that if arnbitiion can raise him from the Jowesi station, it .can prostrate them from the highest# gs- - ; * In his hypocritical cant after liberty, ia the commencement of (he revolution, he assu tned the ri&me of iirurus ! f Sir tiumptarey DaVy wast>ansmitted the j&rst prize of the academy of arts and sciences. jr ‘S ‘ New York, Oct; 10. ®Y THE STEA.Y| BOAT CAR OF NEPTONE. . (Albany Argus Office, Saturday Morning. ‘ The Western Mail brings letters from Sacltett’s Harbor and Buffaloe. fcen. Izard Was With his army at Lewistown. Com. Chauncey was oft* Kingston, blockading the enemy’s fleet which had not come out. Lt. I)ickmson, with a detachment of men. has captured five British boats, with goods on board belonging 10 the North West Company, worth 12,000 . dollars. 350 sailors have gone from Lake Champlain to’ the’ Harbor. 323 British prisoners are seven miles above Albany, coming down. The falling out of the militia was only a measure of precaution/’ Passengers in Uie Si earnboat’ state tint .Sir James Yeo’s large ship <.<6bhl not get over Kingston oar with hCW guns in ; and would probably not venture out without them so’ Tong as Com. Chauncey continued the blockade. From iht Boston Daily Advertiser / Massachusetts legisla. TCItE. Wednesday Get. 4.—Sopn after the house was called to order, a motion was made by Low of Lyman, which was laid on the table. ’ Moved. That a committee be ap pointed taxonfer with all the New- England States, and see if they will agiee to appoint a committee to join them and repair to Washington t< immediately, then and there son ally to make known to the Pre sident, the general’ opinion of all the New England States in regard to the present war, and the manner in which it has been conducted, and inform him that he must either re sign his office as President, or re move those ministers and other offi cers of the General Government, who have by theirs nefarious plans ruined the nation—with leave to re port by bill or otherwise. Read, and to-morrow, fthis dayj at Tl o’clock, assigned for the considera tion of the subject. IN SEN AT L—Ordered that the lUp. Messrs. Lewis, Biake & Moody, be a committee to. enquire & report wfiether any members of the Senate have voluntarily assumed upon them selves any obligation to the King or Government of Great Britain incom patabie with their duty as members the legislature of this Common- wealth or their oath to support the Constitution of the United States, with power to send for persons and papers. ** A Thursdat, November 3, 1814. We are still left in anxious sus pense, in regard to our northern fleet and armies. Our latest dates from Ontario leave it doubtful whe ther the British fleet had sailed from Kingston or whether their large ship was ready for sea. Izard and Brown appear to have formed a junction St it is thought they would pursue ami attack Drummond fortifying at Chip pewa and Queenstown.—The British are said to be in considerable force at Kingston, 20.000. Ans attack on Sackett's Harbor is daily expected, and is rather wished for than feared, by the Americans, as from the great strength of fortifications they calcu late on being able to repulse their assailants.) State Legislature • Capt. Ehas Beall of Green county, i has been ejected Brigadier General, in the room of Gen. Stewart, resign ed ; Dr. Tenneli elected Quarter- Master, and Dr. J. A. Casey elect ed Health-Officer for the Psrt of Savannah* A bill has passed the House of Representatives subjecting the Stu dents of the University to the re quisitions of the Militia Law ,* this bill is now before the Senate. General JOHN FLOYD arrived in this city last evening, and will pro ceed to-mOrrow morning to camp Jackson, were the troops for the de fence of Savannah are encamped* We understand the general will command th papers Mr. Bayard in a letter to Mr. Harper of Maryland dated Ghent, August 24, 1814 wrires.** Wnen you know the just and mode rate tefrms we were authorised to offer the ene my, and their prepositions, you will exclaim with me “ let the fate of battles decide the question.” . More Troops One hundred and ftfty United States’ regulars reached Camp > acksbh on ,Sunday last from the upper country; persons who have seen them state that they are healthy looking fellows. Upwards of one thousand men under the com mand of CM. Thomas, marched in to the encampment last evening from Sparta. They are well armed and equiped, and look like men .who could stand the “ tug of war.” Sav * Rep. Oct . 25. A , number of troops arrived in town the day before and immediately proceeded for Fort Jackson where they are to be sta tioned—?£. ’ * , .’ • j • “ •■’ ‘ i; * <’ We congratulate our readers that the proposition to remove the seat of government has received its merited fate, having been rejected, When bro't to the final question, by a majority of nine votes. — Nat, Intel. The President has Conferred the brevet rank of major general on Brigadier General Macom*, for the brilliant defence of Plattsburg against the powerful force of the enemy un der the governor general of the Ca* nadas. Assistant Adjutant General Ro-, ger Jokes, captain in the corps of artillery, is brevetted a major, to rank from the 15th August, and Ma jor J. Hindman, of the same corps, has been brevetted a lieutenant colo nel to rank from the 15th August also.-~4£; , Nxw-York Oct. 15; FROM THE NIAGARA. Our correspondent at Albany com municates : “ Gen. Izard is at Lew iston, and Gen. Brown at Erie, rein forced by one thousand men from the Ohio and Kentucky* So says a letter of the 7th.** Report, howe ver says that Gen. Izard has crossed the river and formed a junction with gen. Brown. The British sloop of war Columbine sunk by the Peacock . •*„ New- Haven, (Xonn») Oct. 11. Capt. Renshaw, late commander of the U. S. brig Rattlesnake, arri ved m this city on Sunday last, from fiuUfax. Cape. sailed from Halifax in a cartel, anu arrived at Newport on Friday last; He informs that the U. S. sloop of-war Peacock had an engagement with the English sloop of war Columbine, in the Irish Channel, which terminated, after a very short engagement, in the sink ing of, the enemy’s vessel ; and so suddenly, that not a man from the Columbine tduld be saved-*-He futv ther states, that the Columbihe had been fitted oiit expressly for the pur pose of taking the Peacock, and had > a picked crew. . The Columbine is stated Steel’s likt at 18 guns ,* the Peacock is ra ted the same, hut carries 22 $ the En glish vessel, also, probably mounts more guns than she is rated at* The news above mentioned, Capt. Renshaw read in a London paper, which was received at Halifax a few days previous to his leaving that place• * MARK THIS ! London, August 11. At a grand fete given on Saturday at White* dhurch u» honor of lords Hill and Combermere, the chairman, among other toasts gave “ Sue* cess to lord Hill and his American expedition. In returning thanks the noble lord said,that he had three days ago taken leave of his prince, and on the Ist September he should quit Eng land for Cork, where he should embark on the first favorable opportunity for America, to take the command of the British army; and he had no doubt with the means already there, together with those on the way, and what were promised by his prince, he should hum ble the Yankees, and bring the contest to a speedy and successful termination From the remote period fixed for his lordship*, departure it is evident that lie wans the result of the negociations at Ghent* FROM FRANCE. Letters from a source of the very first res pectability, received in this state, and dated Paris, August 17th, mention, that every thing in that country looks like a renewal of the war —that the soldiery, consisting of 250,000 men, when on parade by 10 or 20,000 at a time, and called on to cry “ Long live the King,” unanimously exclaim, “ Long live tha Emperor V* , If this be true, and it does not admit of a doubt, *• the long agony” is not quite “ over,” Governeur Morris’s assertion to the contrary notwithstanding. , The letters further state, hat there is little doubt but that if we con me the war another year we. shall have nea y all Continental Europe on our side, ands ill be able to'make what terms we please. ~ *• Carolina Gazette • Latest sJews front the North* New-Yorx, Oct. 19. ; r:v - By the passengers in the Eastern stage last evening we are informed* that the Yankee privateer, of Bristol, R. I. had arfived at Newport, bring ing in with her a large British Trans port, having on board , Five Hundred Regular which she had cap tured after ah engagement, in which!, the Yankee, it is said lost 2© men-- She had only been out six days on her cruise* Nat. Adv. v The Steam Boat, which arrived yesterday morning, bringing a re port that the enemy's fleet, including the large ship, has got out of King-, ston, and is cruizing on the lake— i6hr fleet, is in Sackett&’s, Harbor. A passenger in the Steam Boat states, as a report that Fort George has been taken by Gen- Izard’s army , wiih its garrison consisting of 300 men. Thesmain body of the army had previously evacuated it. \ X . .XT. Ml WllTliri.imU—— state of Georgia. By Bis Excellency Pbt'er Ear - Governor and Commander v in Chief of the Army and Navy of this State, and of the Milt tia thereof A PROCLAMATION; HERE AS I have, as directed iri and by an act of the General Assembly, passed the 11th of February, 1799, entitled “ an act to regulate the General Elections in this state, and to point the time of the meeting of the General Assembly,” arranged and counted up all the votes given to the several candidates at the Elections held on tyfoqday the 3d day, of October, inst. for six members to represent this state in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the. United States, for two years from and after the 3d day of March, 1815, from which it appears, that John Forsyth, Alfred Cuthbert, Wilson Lump kin, Richard H. Wilde,'Bolling Hall and Thomas Telfair, esquires, have the highest number of votes. And whereas it is pointed out by the act above mentioned, “ that no person shall be “ elected a Representative to Congress who *< has not been an inhabitant of this state «* three years next preceding bis election, and u paid his tax regularly during that time,” sid th£t “ no commission afiaO issue to, or “ flbM sh? person so elected, until s& «* tisfac: .i v proof i-’ » ojuced tha rhe tax of ** such pe.spn has been regularly >a a , abave “ mentioned, and rha’ he has act * )y had “ the residence herein prescribed ’* \"d fur ther, “ that in case any person duly elected, *« being in this State, and notified ’hereof in “ manner herein directed, shjdlnot *h twenty “ days, and if out of the within forty “ days, after such notification, signify his ac “ ceptance, or shall depart this life, the Governor or Commander in Chief shall or •* der anew election to be held,” &c. 1 have therefore thought proper to issae this my Proclamation, hereby declaring that the aforesaid John Forsyth, Alfred Cuthbert, Wilson Lumpkin, Richard H. W;lde, 8011, ing Hall and Thomas Telfair, esquires, are duly elected to represent this state m the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States for the term of two years from and after the 3d da> of March, I#ls, and also to notify each of them to signify to me the acceptance of his appointment within the time Unfitted by law, and to produce such proofs of his eligibility as are required by thy act above,mentioned. Given tinker my'hand, and the Great seal of the State, ar the State-House in Milledgeville, this twenty-fifth day of October, in Ahe year of our Lord, oAe; thousand eight hundred 8c four teen, and in the thirty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America. PE PER EARLY. By the Governor , ABNER HAMMOND, . Secretary of State. Octobea 25* 3/ EAGLE TAVERN tv* STAGE OFFICE. , THE Subscribers having entered; into Co-Partnership under the firm of jIGRIMES tf.SLVLv - Have taken for a term of years thit com-, tnodious and well known establishment, for merly Ashton’s Tavern,, but lately occupied by Messrs. , Calffrey & Bust!a. Genteel vellers with their families may be assured of the most, attentive treatment, and may enjoy a degree of privacy and retirement, seldom met with in Pubhc Houses, as they have ad jacent and convenient buildings, altogether unconnected with the bustle of the Tavern. , , They are at present, and intend to use eve'-* ry exertion to be constantly > supplied, with whatever will contribute either to the com fort or convenience of Travellers, in general, or Regular Boarders. . * i They feel a degree of confidence when they invite Strangers .to their House, since they are determined to devote the most imremitted, v attention to the accommodation oft their cus tomers,—and trust that by -merirmg, they. ! wiU receive a liberal share of public patro* ~ ;y. • { WILLIAM: G. GRIMESr , WILLIAM SIMS. . Augusta, fGea.)%s l October lßl4,. ■■ , i— —-• INFORMATION WANTED ,oOf Two Teams Loaded at, Au gusta for West Tennessee, as foi~ lows, vi-z For Mr. Adam Caldwell of three crates of earthen ware, one trunk and one box. ( \ : • For Faulk & Shaifee of Gallatin, one large, crate of ware, nine barrels; of coffee, one keg of pepper* one keg of spice, two trunks,’ two boxes and one small bale of blankets.* These last named packages, &c. exclusive of the crate, are marked F» & S. , . There are three men with those teams,!- two of them fair complected the name of one Langton or Langston, the other’s name not recollected; the third is of dark complect tion, of low stature, whose name is Gordon. *. ..The reason for .wishing information is ow ing to information received, that some person was in pursuit of one or two of those wag goners for debt, whereby, if they/should, be, overtaken,, the transportation of tne goods would meet with delay, which Wpuldor could! be remedied by addressing a few lines to Thomas and John Moore of Augusta, by the* ’ Waggoners, or any gentleman, who by so compiling, greatly oblige the owners. FAULK er SHAIFEE. ADAM CALDWELL. GEORGIA , Clark county a Whereas Samuel 8c John Jackson have apw plied for letters of administatioq on the estate of Daniel Jackson late of said county, deceas ed . . These are therefore to dite and admonish?- all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office within the time* pointed out by law,!to shew cause, if any, why said letters should not be granted. , t Given my hand at office thi^ 31 st day of October , IB 14* JOHN HODGE; C. C. - - ——— 11 “ * m FR ANKLIN COLLEGE. THOSE persons who are iff ar-*, rears for tuition at Frankliit -College are respectfully requested to make immediate payment -either to the subscriber or the President of t^ ; college.- - / A. S. CLAYTOJf. £shclt*i <ocfoper 13/ IB 14*