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Csolumßtan VOL IV. No. 167] Three dollars per annum,) PUBLISHED BY GEORGE F. RANDOLPH, NORTH BROAD-STREET. (Half in advance. i in T 'll- — " CONDITIONS OF THE COLUMBIAN CENTINEL. 1. THE COLUMBIAN CENTINEL will be published every Saturday, on a demi paper, of an excellent quality, and on an entire new type, of which this is a specimen. , 2. The terms of subscription will be three dollars per annum, one half to be paid at the time of subscribing, and the balance at the expiration of the year. No subscription will be received for a less term than six months, and all subscribers papers will be continued from year to year, unless ordered to the reverse at the expiration of the year, or six months. 4. Advertisements will be charged sixty-three cents per square for the first publication, and forty-two for each succeeding, and in the same proportion for those of greater length. The following /lemons have subscrip tion papers in their hands for the accom modation of persons who may please to subscribe , and they are duly authorised to receive the same . Petersburgh : Capt. J. P. Watkins. Viena : James Colhoun. Elberton : Middleton Woods, Esq. Ogle thorp County: Wm. 11. Crawford, Samuel Shields, China Grove , and at the Store of Major Phinizy, Lexington . Washington , Wilkes County: Col. Francis Willis. Maj. Patrick Jack. Green County Maj. Young Gresham, James Nickelson, William Grant. Jackson county Samuel Gardner, Esq. Franklin comity : Thomas P. Carnes, Esq. Hancock County : Hines Holt, Esq. Doct. William Lee, Eli Harris Worren County Capt. Tljiomas Dent, George Hargraves. Lincoln County John M. Dooley, Esq. Charles Stovall. Columbia : William Ware, Esq. Solomon Marshall, Burke County William Whitehead, Col. John Whitehead, Col. John Davis, Jefferson County: George R. Clayton, Esq. James Bozeman, Esq. John Bostwick, Esq. Striven County Reuben Wilkinson. William Oliver, Esq. Major Skinner, Savannah: Seymour, &co .printers, Bacon and Malone, Mclntosh County : George Baillie. AUGUSTA fc? SAVANNAH Line of Stages . THE Augusta and Savannah line of Stages will be continued by the subscriber, who trusts his unremitting attention to the LINE, in endeavoring to render passengers safe and comfort able, will secure him a coutinuance of public patronage. He at the same time informs them that the STAGE OFFICE is removed from Ashton’s Tavern, to Mrs. LONGSTREET’S Boarding-House- LEWIS CALFREY. September 20.-* 9 BLANKS of every (description executed at this office, with neatness and dispatch. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Thomas Bur dell y Respectfully informs his friends and the public , that he has received at his Store , BROAD-STREET AN EXTENSIVE AND EXCELLENT ASSORTMENT OF MERCHANDIZE ....CONSISTING 0F.... BLUE, Drab, Green & Mixed Plains, Blue, Drab, Green and Mixed Forrest Cloths, 5-4 and 6-4 Coarse and Second Drab, Blue, Brown, Green Sc mixed cloths, Superfine, Blue, Brown, Green, Drab and mixed cloths, Second and Superfine Kerseymeres, Coatings, Flannels and Baizes, Bombazette, Durant and Calimancoes, Worsted, Cotton and Silk Hosiery, Dimity, Marseilles and Jeans, Cambricks and Muslins, Brown and White Irish Linen, Platillas, Listadoes, and Rowens, Calicoes and Chintz, Silks of various kinds, Crimson, ] ~. 7/ T r 1 Pmpie, & \ Silk Velvets* h ast Green J A few set of Tea China, 45 pieces each, Lace Scarfs, very elegant, Ditto 5-4 Shawls, Ditto 7-4 Veils, Ditto Bosoms, Ditto Caps, • Ditto Sleeves and Sleeve Patterns, Ditto Cloaks, En Elegant Assortment of LACES AND EDGINGS, Lace Bambrick, Ditto:'Muslins, Ditto Crapes and Plume do. Leno and Picket Muslins, Leno Caps and Shawls, Ribbons, Cord and Tassels, Flowers and Feathers, Knotted Cotton Trimmings, Damask Sutlin Shawls, Nett Shawls, Adelphi Thread, ....ALSO.... A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF Ironmongery and Saddlery, And a great number of other articles, all of which are offered low for cash or approved notes at 90 days- September 20. 9 Jones & SemmeJs COMMISSION WARE-HOUSE fc? STORES ARE NOW IN COMPLETE ORDER FOR THE RECEPTION OF ALL KINDS OF Goods & Produce, Either coming up or going down the river ; They are making an addition to their Cotton Ware House, Which will enable them in a few days to store at least 5000 Bales of COTTON.—Their attention to the business of those who may please to favor them with their custom, will be unremitted. Their rates of Storage will be as low as any in Augusta. THEY ALSO HAVE OA HAND AN EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES, - Selected by themselves from the best Northern markets—which they .offer for sale by Wholesale and Ratail, on low and liberal terms. September 20. 9 • FOR SALE. A YOUNG and likely coun try born Negro Woman, she is a good cook, washer, and ironer, and sold for no fault but want of employment....En quire at this office. July 19. 56 Factorage AND COMMISSION "BUSINESS. THE subscribers having entered in to partnership, under the firm of Barrett & Sims, in the above line of business, ci ty, informs their friends aqd tbh public in general, that they shall £rminue to occupy the same stores, as heretofore occupied by Thomas Barrett, where they are evecting, in addition, a large Cotton Warehouse, which will afford them room to store 5000 Bales of Cotton at one time, secure irom the weather. Thomas Barrett , 7 Benjamin Sims. Augusta,,August 30. eowtf. 6 Colhoun & Wilson, HAVE JUST RECEIVED FROM NEfV-YORK tV PHILADELPHIA , and now opening at their Store , next door to Messrs. John Fox , IV Co. A CHOICE SELECTION OF THE FOLLOWING GOODS, which will be sold very low for CASH OR PRODUCE VIZ: SUPERFINE Cloths & Cassimeres, Fine and Coarse Cloths, Mixed Plains, Kendal Cottons, Rose and Striped Blankets, Calamancoes and Durants, Bombazines and Bombazetts, Florentine, Crapes and Pealongs, Silk and Cotton Suspenders, Corduroys, Velveteens and Thicksets, Mens’ and Womens’ Cotton Hose, Mens’ Worsted ditto. Dimities and Janes, Irish and Brown Linens, Silk and Cotton U ijhbrellas, Long Lawns and Cambric, Laced Cambric, "j Jaconet, j £5 Vein, l <£ Book, f U. Leno, * 2 Black Cambric J ~ Leno Veils and Shawls, Black Love do. and Veils, Silk Chambray Muslin, Cotton do. do. Synchews, Pic Nic Gloves, White and Colored Cotton Gloves, Bandanna Handkerchiefs, Linen and Cambric ditto. Ribbons and Silk, Laces and Edging, Printed Callicoes, Chintz Shawls, Marseilles Waistcoating, Morocco and Kid Slippers, Misses Morocco ditto. Mens’ Fine and Coarse Shoes, Boots and Bootees, Boot Legs and Calf Skins, Saddles and Bridles, Saddle Baggs, ■ Mens’ Plated Hats, Table Knives and Forks, Pen and Pocket Knives, Shoe Knives, Tea Trays and Bread Baskets, Shovels and Tongues, Trace Chains and Weeding Hoes, Nails, 6,8, 10, 12, 20, Cotton Bagging, AND SOME USEFUL BOOKS, With a great variety of articles too tedious to enumerate, making in the whole a complete assortment. ALSO, AN ASSORTMENT OF GROCERIES: VIZ : BROWN 8c LOAF SUGARS, SHERRY WINE, COGNIAC WRANDY, COFFEE, PEPPER, ALSPICE, Bcc. Augusta, September 20. 9 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1806. T OR THE COLUMBIAN CSNTINSL. NO. XI. To the Members composing the Ainth Congress of the United States. Gentlemen, ' •* THE power of the legislature is limit* ed not only by the general rules of natural “ justice and the welfare of the community, “ but by the forms and principles of our par* •« ticular constitution.” jonius- IN my last, I confined the representation of the state oi France, nearly to the period of 1 your session. I did, it is true, advert to the First Consul’s letter to the King of England, because that was the first open signal to sur rounding nations, that the republic no longer existed. That was the pivot on which her . political needle moved, and after all its violent vibrations, pointed at last to imperial royalty as true as the magnetic needle to the pole. It was to that demonstrative change in the sen timents of that people, that my digression from the immediate object of discussion was so long. The state of England can be given in fewer . words. There has beer no change in the fun damental principles of her political system dur ing the present reign, Tjaty Were mimical ttl liberty when Junius wrote. They are the same still. Her recognition of our indepen dence did not help Whig principles amongst them. Almost the last of English and Scotch manly freedom and all the rights of Ireland fell before the overwhelming influence of their aristocracy, when once Mr. Pitt (seizing art fully on its national prejudices) roused the na tion to war with the French people. The pre sent Cabinet whig, as it is esteemed dares not now attempt, except very superficially to depart from bis maxims in practice. Their disease is seated in the noble organs of life. The remedy will be but skin deep. Her govern ment is in theory really despotic, and may in time become tyrannical to all her own subjects. She has as yet only punished political sectaries. Napolean will not suffer any. Example is con tagious. But the only regard I wish to view her in now, is. that she is no longer dangerous to foreign nations in relation to their indepen dence or integrity. She is oppressive, over bearing and shamelessly unjust on the ocean, but her external power is now as mutative as the elements which compose and agitate its waves. fter continental weight is gone. The scale of France is on earth ; that of England kicks the beam. One hundred and twenty years of intrigue, blood and expense have been wasted in vain. She is driven within herself. She no longer sends her troops to acquire lau rels on the Rhine, or the Danube. They can not even command a confmercial depot on the coast. Fear can no more control. Money no longer subsidize. All her ancient allies have vanished. She has not a single friend. She has nought left but the memory of past terrene greatness ; whilst the indignant genius of Marleborough, pointing to the plains of Ramillies and Blenheim, embitters every tho’t. She is now therefore wholly a commercial na tion in respect to the European continent,— How long she will even~beaf that character is not yet determined. . Her insolated power in relation to France is lessened by the extent and riches of her colonies. She draw’s wealth from them, but gains.not any physical strength. They must be defended by her. The very means weaken the one and impoverish the other. Her natural situation and artificial re sources of defence added to other circumstances may make her far a long time unconquerable by a foreign foe—but she has completely ceased to be an object of terror or danger to other states, especially to those of republican establish ments. To conclude, her immense public debt palsies half her remaining energies. It may therefore with truth be said, that the present war, and her efforts in it, are for self defence. It is that she is fighting for. How different then was the state and the views of these two rivals when you were sitting. One combating for actual independent existence; the other with the inclination and the power for ambi. tious aggrandizement. The one a commercial nation from situation and habit; and forced to become military for self preservation. The other a military nation from character and practice, and that wishes to become commer cial to acquire a navy that will add maritime greatness to her present colossal continental force. Placed as we then and now are, I call on such of my countrymen who w ill take the time from their various avocations, to ask themselves this plain question, which of these two nations was and still is the most to be dreaded ? Apply to existing circumstances the nature of their gov ernments, the power and disposition of their monarchs and the genius of the two nations, and then let them enquire (if an equilibrium either cannot or will not be maintained by our government) to which side ought we to lean ? If they are to quit their blooming fields for the tented one of Mars, with whose standards ought ours to be now joined ? To add force to that which already alarms the known world ; to humble that flag, which though it has & does oppress act times neutral commerce, yet supports the independence of those states her antag onists cannot reach by land. But Britain does not ask you to join her in arms. Her present rul ers do not want a crusade against French liber ty. That does not exist, and if it did, they are too wise to attempt it. With an anxious out firm aspect they cast rather an impatient eye at the measure which has created these comments. 1 now repeat that this partial non importation act was as to Britain, repugnant to