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VOL. I.) ATHENS, GEORGIA: PRINTED BY ALEXANDER M'DONNELL, SATURDAY, APRIL i, 1809. ■- %/* ‘* ‘’ TER M S ■ OF THI GEORGIA EXPRESS. i. IT will be printed week!/, at three dollars per annum ; one half to be paid in advance, the remainder at the expiration of fix months. -2. Advertifements will be charg ed at the rate of fixty-two and a half cents per fquare for the firft infertion, and fifty cents for each continuation. 3. No papers will be. difconrinu ed without a notice to that effed; nor then if in arrears. (Cf* All letters directed to the Editor mull be poll paid. The following Gentlemen are autho rized tv receive Subfcriptzons fcr this Paper :— Clarksboro'-— Port-Matter. JefferJon- —Maj. Edwin L. Harris. JVatkinfville —E. 13. Jenkins, elq. and M.r. Edward Bond. Lexington —Poll Matter, & Capt, Watkins. Oglethorpe —Mr. Samuel Shields, and William Lumpkins, Efq. Walnut Grove —Mr. Lee Atkins. Goofe-pond —Mr. H. T. Woody, Greenes boro* —Capt. T. Daw fon, Sparta— Dodlor W. Terrell. War rent on —Pod- Mafter, Pcmekon —Pcft-Mafter., ■ . - , Milledgevilk —Thomas and James Bozeman, Efqrs. t aionicn —C hriftop her B. Strong, Efq. * Elh'erlon —Col. Wm. Chifloiti. Petersburg —Aiex. Pope, Efq. & Do6t. Watkins., Vienna —S, B. Wields, Efq. Wilkes —David Terrell, Efq. Sc Doflor Bibb. ‘Lincoln— Captain N. Allen, and Cspt. John Hughej. Louifyille~~M effl Day & Whee ler. Augujia —J, 3. Walker, Efq. &: Dodlor Smelt. Waynesboro* —Col. John. Davies. . Sanderfville —Mr. Wm. M‘Mur ray. * ~ - . Savannah^— Mr. H. H. Moun ger, and Mr. A. W. Scribner. NOTICE. rqps A HAT the Planters Com pany of the County of Clark is by mutual confent diflfolved j and the book and other papers belong ing to the concern are depofited in the hands of Meftrs. Thomas tc Reuben Hill for fettlement j to whom perfons indebted will be p leafed to make payment, and all thcfe to whom payments are due Hvill alfo be pleafed to render their accounts in, in order that provifion may be made to difeharge them. HARMON RUNNELS, WILLIAM WRIGHT, JONATHAN MELTON, STEPHEN CROW, JOHN STROTHER, ZADOCK COOK, THOMAS HILL, BENJAMIN HAGOOD, PETER RANDOLPH. March 4, 1809. GEORGIA EXPRESS.’ many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Fop. the Georcia Express. NO. 111. Georgians, HOW comes it to pafs that Americans, defendants of the pa triots of *7 63 allow their rights to be thus trampled upon, not only by Great Britain but alfo by France -—but the infults of Britain have been more inhuman and unprinci pled than thofe of France. Ido not wifh.to be coniidered the apo iogift of France by this aftertion.— Allow any unprejudiced man to be afked which of the two nations have given us the greateft caufe of re fentment ; the anfwer muft be plain—He will undoubtedly fay that Great Britain has infulted us in a more outrageous and cruel man ner than has heretofore had a pre cedent. Was ever there a more infuhing circumftance than the blockading our ports and murder ing one of our peaceable citizens in 1804, 2nd this too when he was following his lawful occupation.- Has our government even received any fatisfaction for this infulr, which can be equalled only by other Britifh depredations ? they have received this much—the murderer, Whitby, has had a (ham trial be fore a court martial and has been honorably acquitted, taken from the command of a 50 gun fhip and gi ven that of a 74. This is his re ward for having murdered an Artie rican citizen 1 But what more can we expedl from a nation who has adted as unprincipled, as Britain did towards Denmark, a nation which, had been favorable to the Britifh caufe and had in a great meafure. aided her againft her enemies.—- And my countrymen you know not how foon forne of our fea-port towns may be treated in the fame manner Copenhagen wis in the year 1807 ; be therefore on the alert—. watch every fufpicious man whom you think the friend of Britain in the deleft manner—do not allow them your fuffrages at any ele&ion,. for by getting into office they will have it more in their power to in jure you. Would the infamous letter of Timothy Pickering have had as great influence on the Bri tifh tainiftry if ii had came from a iefs confpicuous fource ?. undoubt edly it would not j for if they were to give credulity to every letter that is from America againft cur government, ! they would not only make themfeives ridiculous in the eyes of the world but alfo draw the odium of their countrymen upon them. But on the contrary when their information is received from fuch a refpedtable quarter, when it even comes from a Senator of the United States, they were juftiftafilc in their belief that a fix months embargo would produce an infur redtion in our country, and this be lief founded on the fuppofition that Timothy Pickering’s letter was bottomed on truth was one great reafon that our embargo has been defeated. Beware then of fuch characters fmee you have learnt from woeful experience they are r.ot the friends of your freedom.—• By feme perhaps it may be tho’t needlefs to mention the barbarous and unjuft attack on the Che fa peake in 1807, but we ought to bring frefh in our memories all paft in luits for which we have received no reparation, when the time appears to be fall approaching when we ffiall be compelled to !e e a fscisfac ,tion by force. The bare mention of the Chefapeake ought to infpire every, American boforii with an e ternal hatred towards Britain, and ought to fill their minds will'* a de termination to facrificc every pri vate motive in obtaining juftice for the many wrongs of his country. — And this is the only inftance of Britifh infulc for which we have been offered the lead reparation, and her offers were infuking to our feelings. They fent a minifter with pretended powers to make due reparation for this infulr, but how far did the commiftion of Mr. Role extend has not as yet been certain ly known; but we . know this far that he would not let his terms cf reparation be known unlefs cur government would refeind a procla mation of the Prefident’s, deny the truth of Commodore Barron’s let ter, and in a word to proftrate. our felves before them begging for juftice becaijfe we had received an injury. The refeindingof the Pre fidents proclamation would rot per haps have been followed by Mr. Role’s making any amicable pro pofals, with regard to the Chefa peake, but; on the contrary might have been followed by another ftlll more unjuft - requifition, and at length he might have departed with out giving tnc proferred fatisfadli on. : This a juft conclufion when we fee Britain In every inftance acl with as grejit and often tirfces great er depluciry and deception. As regards the Prefident’s denying the truth of Commodore Barron’s let ter, it muft appear obvius to eve ry, .thinking and reafon able perfon, that -if the Prefidenc had commit ted this unjuft adl there would have been a ftiii greater ft/gma call upon our national charatfer. What en couragement would there have been for our naval officers to ferve their country, when upon the bare affer tion of a Britifh officer every word they would utter would be confider ed falfe. Quite a different courfe of conduft has directed the councils of cur nation; our government has defeended thus far to offer to with draw the Prefident’s proclamation provided Mr. Rofe would firft make known his terms of repara tion ; he refufed, what then but Come hidden unknown defign could have been the caufe of his refufmg to negociate on fair and honorable terms ; our. government was ap prifed of this and afled accordingly. No my countrymen, Britain did not at the very time fhe fent Mr. Rofe to your country intend yon fliould receive any reparation for thisinfult. She only wiihed to amufe you. for the moment while fhe exerted her felf in attempting to influence the ele&ion of your Prefident, hoping that if fhe fhould be fo fortunate as to get one of her creatures in of fice, the reje&ed treaty would them be renewed, and fhe would be able to accompliln her defired end in robbing us of fome of cur deareft rights; but her dtfigns have been Agnail y defeated, and we fee that the American people from Geor gia to Maine have hailed with ac clamations of joy, the day which brought the iliuftnous Madifon te* the diftinguifhed poft of Chief Ma giftrate of United America. EURYCIDES. ——O-O.’O-’OO-."—. - From a late London Paper, THE AMERICAN PROPOSITION. Unprecedented in a military view as is the fituztion of the modern world, its commercial ftate pre fents a fpedacle no lefs extraordi-f nary. While there is a medium between fubjugation and > hoftility* the word t{ neutral” is only known as the fign of whSt once exifted.—- France excludes from the Conti nent of Europe ail who would trade with the Britifh dominions. • Great Britain confirms the work of her enemy by forcing all nations who would trade, with the Continent of Europe to pay her tribute, and to do every ait which infures their exclufion. ‘ America difgufted and harrafted with thefe proceedings* fhurs up her ports and put an end to all maritime intercourfe between civilized nations. The ravages of war by a refinement of deflrudion* are thus accompanied with the anni hilation of one of the chief means of their reparation. ‘ The embargo* which could never have been tole rated in America, had it not been for our orders in council; ftronglyr favored the views of France.—— That commerce which to her was comparatively of little confequence* was nearly ruined before* and the embargo could not materially alter her ficuation. To Great Britain* whofe ftrength, and even exiflence* depends in a great meaflire, on her commerce, the meafure was like cutting oft the right hand. Eng land, therefore, by the orders of council gave the lafl blow to the intercourfe of the civilized world and that blow fell heuvieft on her felf. . . . In this ftate of things, a propofal is made, that if Great Britain would refeind her orders of council, Ame rica would either procure the revo lution of the French decree?, or continue the embargo with refpe£fc to the enemy, and renew the inter— courfe with Great Britain. The efFe<ft of the acceptance of this pro pofuion muft ncceftfarily be, either the reftcratioa of that commercial intercourfe which, though advanta geous to the enemy, would be, out of all proportion, more favorable to the intcreftsof Great Britain, or the renewal of the intercourfe be tween Great Erirain, and America* to the total exclufion of France and her allies in the war. The French decrees formed the whole pretence for the orders of council, and the revocation of the decrees mull, therefore, fully anfwer the purpolc (No. 45.