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The following persons have subscrip papers in their hands for the accom modation of persons who may please to subscribe, and they are duly authorised to receive the same • Peters burgh : Capt. 1. P. Watkins. Viena : James Calhoun. Elberton: Middleton Woods, Esq. Ogle!harp County t Wm. H. Crawford, Samuel Shields, China Grove , and at the Stove of Major Pbinity, Lexington . Washington , Wilkes County: Col. Francis Willis. Maj. Patrick Jack. Green County Maj. Young Gresham, James Nickelson, William Grant. Jackson county Samuel Gardner, Esq. Etanklin county Thomas P. Carnes, Esq. Hancock County i Hines Holt, Esq. Doct. William Lee, Eli Harris Worren County Capt. Thomas Dent, George Hargraves. * , Lincoln County John M. Dooley, Esq. Charles Stovall. Columbia t William Ware, Esq. Solomon Marshall, Burke County William Whitehead, Col. John Whitehead,. . Col. John Davis, Jefferson Countyi George R. Clayton, Esq. James Bozeman, Esq. i John Bostwick, Esq. Scriven County R euben Wilkinson. William Oliver, Esq. Major Skinner, Savannah: Seymour, &co . printer* t Bacon and Malone, MLntosh County: George Baillie. NOTICE. after the expiration of nine X months, application will he made to the honorable the justices of the In ferior court of Burke county, for leave to sell a part of the real estate of Wil liam Scruggs, deceased ; it being half of an undivided tract of two hundred and forty acres, adjoining lands of John Whiteheqd, William Urquhart, and Daniel R. Elliot—the same being for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased. Gross Scruggs, Adm'r. Waynesborough , May 23. 3m 44 FOR SALE. * THREE Hundred and Seven - ty Seven AcresofLAND, laying on Sa vannah river, near the mouth of Little river in Sotith-Carolina —tor particulars apply to Colhoun & Wilson in Augus ta, or to James Colhoun, jr. in Vienna. April 4. 73 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. r d ADVERTISEMENT extra. Geo: S. 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A large and Fresh supply o/ the Indian Vegitable Specific , A safe, speedy, and pleasant cure for a cer tain dreadful disease—Prepared by Dr.Leracx, The above medicines sold only by appoint ment cl ;•’* sole Inventor and proprietor, at his Store, Broad-street, Augusta. Januarv 11. 29- ■ BLANKS of every descripti n executed at this office, with neatness and dispatch. RICHMOND, (Vire.) M»y 2 s* FEDERAL COURT. TRIAL of COLONEL BURR. Yesterday the Court was op ned about one quarter p st twelve, ami tl e names of the following gentlemen were called as Grand Jurors, viz: William B. Gilt *•, Jo&<fill Eggleston. Edward Pegrani, John M'Rea. Mmn ford Beverly, John Ambler, Wilson C. Nicholas, L, W. Tazewell, Ja)ncs Pres 107i, William Daniel, John Brokenbrough, Carter Thomas Brokenbrough, James Phasants, J. C. Cabell, Thomas Harrison, Alex: Shefiherd, John Mer cer, James Garnett, John Taylor, Benja min Hatcher. Richard Bwoofi, Carter Be verly, h obt rt Taylor. Col. Burr then rose and addressed the Court—He apologised for some ob servations which he proposed to offer in reel'd (y tJi* lii vuTtttc w.w Grand Joey, were summoned, and on some irregular'tits which appeared td have place in the part of sum moning. He stated that under certain acts of the state of Virginia, twentv four jurymen were summoned—if therefore it could be proved th.it more than the number twciity-fum were sum moned, the practice ought to he cor rected, and all those above twenty-four should be rtjecttd. He said that it was not his intention by this motion, to affix any censure dr blame to the Conduct ot the public officer, whose du ty it had bu n to summon the Grand Jury, lie w s satisfied that gentlemen li.ul actid from the purest motives, hut it by mistake a misconception of the law, all error had beeu committed, that error ought to he rectified, and then was thy proper time for the correction ! to be made. j Mr- Bolts, of Fredericksburg!) ,as - counsel for ToT. burr supported the pro- ! ; pricty of the motion. He observed ! that it was the wish of Cos. Burr to have a legal trial, an I it was necessary to bigin with asking a strict scrutiny ot p*st measures, equally as those which afurw irds were to come before tne Court. He Saul that toe law of the st .te of Virginia required of the i Marshal to summon twenty-four free- I h. and wnen he had done this his j functions wuc at an t nd. He knew , tnat tue fact was as Col. liurr suggest j ed—that than twenty-lour had been summoned. He imputed no blame to ihc Marshal. F< w men lie believed were guided in t.icir actions with greater impartiality than that of ficer—but still he had reason for think- j i. this error w.s committed. Toat the court had a right to enquire how its process bad been executed, anu if an error had occurred, to correct the Same. He believ d the panntl hud been returned as it ought n X to have been returned, and that this would he ! the case. He said Col* Burr had no other object in view, but to go merely i by law ; and he asked that this purga tion should take place. Mr. George Hay replied on the part of the Commonwealth, “ The proposi tion made by col. Burr and his counsel appears to n\e to be of no kind of force. I do not know whether it is strictly pro per and agreeable to law that the Mar shall should summon more than twen ty-four. I have not been long cnougu conversant with the practice usually adopted in such cases to give a decided opinion on the subject; but I iriust confess this 13 the first time I ever heard of such an objection being made, and Col. Burr coming bqfore the court at this stage of the business aUo ap pears a little extraordinary.” Mr. Wickham—•“ Any person In the situation in which col. Burr at present stands, has a right to come before the Grand Jury, and in support of the pro ' position, Mr. W. referred to Hawkins pleas of the crown, 2d vol. page 307", ; and to 3d Bacon, 725. He deciar i ed it his wish that this Grand Jury ■ should pass before his face free of: all exception.” Mr. Hay said in reply, that the con struction which had been put on the , clause of the act of the state of V irgin- j jiu seemed to hirn improper. The se- j j lection was entrusted to the Marshal, j SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1807. - - md he therefore thought this officer had in consequence, and was invested with the discr, t onary p- wer of sum moning more than twenty-four Jurors, if it turned out tli.it some of those who b d first been summoned could not af terwards a'lMit!— fit* denied that there Was «ny principal of sound sense which required that the function of the Mar shal should cease aft, r having summon ed the twenty four Jurors.— “ Where is the principal (said >lr. Hay) which says his functions ceasts? I appc..l then, sir; I t.sk tlum to inform m*, why it should tie decided by this cuuit that the Marshal has no power to go beyond twenty-four. I ain informed that some, perhaps those alluded to bv col. Bucr, were hot summoned but only asked. I shall certainly t.ot agree to this enquiry. Mr. Wickham said that as the au uiKis.k lie k<nl Ui.lilivncilw*rii extremely short, lie should read them. In til : !6th section of the law, after «numerating a variety of other points, it seemed clear that even in a case such as the present, any objection may be taken at common lnw before he is in dicted, (3 l Bacon, 725) and these ob jections' must also be t ken before the uu ictmt nt is found, lit* came next to enquire into the merits whether it might he proper to t.;ke tins obj aions “ Mr. 11 ,y supposed (s id Mr. Wick ham) that tue construction which we Pt 'piriy put on the law was hi-re rigid th m sound p lie y required—The rea sons ot .< <und policy wdre out of the question; for if v-.-r we are W winder In till I gt IK of polio* in place of law, we may uie..d tile unhappy consequen ces which will necissti'iiy result.’* I j do not mean to m k • any nil < tions m i the character or official conduct of ti e gentleman who is the public officer in ! question, q here is no one whose in* t-grity st.nds high r in my regard. But I w iso that it m y he perceived how much danger there would be in vesting Uu Marshal with the extraor dinary power. lie might cither tam per with tne Jury or he tampered with himst 11. lie thus would hold in his . hand the lito of every citizen whose lot lit was to be arraigned at litis bar. The j law declare., t si.all summon twenty four free-no errs, which lwenty-1 uror any sixteen of them may be Grand Ju rors, but it docs not s-iy that after sum moning any one of the twenty-four he lias the power of erasing his name and substituting ; not her 1111 is plate. The lea* nul eouns. I has at kiv.iwledgtd that | he has not attended to the law, and I ah' not therefore astonished at the ex planation Which he h,.s given of it. If til, re are sixteen Jhiois attending, tie M isluil cannot adri one more to the, pan 11 I. Suppose that he is informed ■ that some one according to his idea ! Would be an improper Juror, then by this argument lie imnudiatcly j substitute another—l si ill supposean oth-* sc t the inst nee 6f th .t indi - '• 'hi 1 1 ..o prrhaps some oti. 1 ; (here Ml', vl ickham wis r. p .citediy inter rupted by Major Scott, and rt quested to n m • tne persons to wh ,in lie allud ed; but'lie xpresstd uimStlf again t these interi updotis, to w> ich he s »id he would not su unit) a gentleman excus es himst'f te the M .rsi', I, if Inis ex cuse was offered to the c< urthe prol.a* My might be fin< d; but 11 tin M. rslnd take no notice of it, but erases his nsuni and substitutes aiiothc r, the court there fore run ins ignorant < f the whole transactions.” Mr. Wiikhatn con eluded by miking several observations in order to relieve the feelings of me Marshal. Mr. Imy ih reply offered a few rc* marks simil r to those lie had already made, tending to shew there were no reasons or principles of sound policy in the doctrine for which tile. counsel of Col. Burr contended. Mr. Edmund R udolph, another of the counsel of Col. Burr said, there was never a place that called so mu ch far the right ot the accused as thepres- Sellt. Mr. Randolph said he had been f>r i thirty years in practice, and never saw j such a necessity for claiming those rights winch were give;* by law us in